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During a recent stop in Times Square, L.L. Bean let us drive its new promotional vehicle — the Ford truck-powered Bootmobile. What better to strap into on a windy, January afternoon in midtown Manhattan than footwear the size of a UPS truck, right? More »
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Home Owners Associations (NAMBLA) are tyrannical little organizations exerting pointless rules on home owners. One man fought his HOA over one such rule — to park his pickup in his own driveway. He won. It only cost him $187,000. More »
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A bear cub in Anchorage, Alaska managed to get trapped in a salmon net and couldn't get out. Seeing the trouble a local hopped into his Ford Super Duty to help the distraught momma bear get him free. More »
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The National Truck Equipment Assocation's annual Work Truck Show is trucking along this week. Ever wonder what kind of warning labels end up on heavy-duty vehicles? These are the ten freakiest. Remember, kids: Watch out for those water pools! More »
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The 2011 Ford Super Duty's a gamble. Ford's newest heavy hauler abandons the well-known Navistar-supplied Powerstroke diesel for a brand new all-Ford designed powerplant supposedly delivering monstrous power, squeaky-clean emissions, better fuel economy and the same price. Seems suspiciously impressive. More »
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We just got back from beating the snot out of Ford's new 2011 Super Duty. While we can't talk about the 735 lb-ft Powerstroke diesel's performance, we can tell you about this monster, the second not-for-sale "Hoss" Super Duty. More »
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Despite showing us the 2011 F-Series Super Duty five months ago, there's been not a word on power. Finally, here's the scoop: Powerstroke, 390HP and 735ft-lb of torque. 6.2-liter gas engine, 385HP and 405 ft-lb of torque. Your move GM. More »
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With the unveil of the 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty at the Texas State Fair, we were buried under a deluge of details. We've had time to review the engineering in the new trucks and have a comprehensive breakdown on all you need to know. More »
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The 2011 Ford Super Duty is on the way and testers are out in force in Detroit. Reader Adrian spotted this one with light camouflage making the rounds. So that badge looks to be what, a foot across? More »
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With metallic body accents, leather-trimmed seats and Paldeo wood applique, you could call the 2009 Ford Super Duty Cabela's Edition a fashionable truck — but since it comes with two built-in gun lockers, we won't. More »
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You've seen us cover the propane-powered Roush F-150 in all of its tire-shredding glory. Now, they've upped the ante with a medium duty F-250 running on the same BBQ fuel. More »
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Ford made the good ol' 240 and 300 inline sixes starting in 1964, and they had the torque and longevity to be great truck engines. By 1983, however, pushrod sixes were going the way of the vinyl LP- quick, get a metric designation on that thing, so buyers will think it's one of those newfangled V6s! We're a little skeptical that a Late Malaise F series pickup ever got 30 MPG highway, but maybe that test was done at a "highway speed" of 42 MPH, using a liquid measurement known as "Ford Truck Gallons," which are equal to 1.5 regular gallons. More »
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Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. It's Truck Monday once again, and today I've decided to do something about the shortage of Nixon Era Fords in this series. A couple of sharp-eyed readers noticed this truck in the background of the photos of the Dart GT convertible, so I headed back to photograph it. More »
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This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Today's DOTSBE post is sort of a hybrid deal; UDMan has shot three cool old survivor trucks- including a couple of IHC machines- in New York. Then, as an added bonus, he's talked the owner of a couple of terrifyingly valuable classics into posing said cars for a photo session. Yes, a Cord 812 and a Lincoln Zephyr, and you'll see 'em all if you make the jump. More »
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Ultimate Fighting Championship Champ Quinton "Rampage" Jackson lived up to his nickname in Orange County Tuesday when he took his camouflage-covered Ford F-250 on a wild Grand Theft Auto-type run through the city, until being pulled over and arrested at gunpoint by local police. How'd they find Jackson? There's a life-sized photo of him on the side of his getaway truck. That, and the UFC champ twice drove on the sidewalk, swerved across lanes and ran through several red lights. Surprisingly, there was no evidence of drug or alcohol usage. Maybe they should test him for bull steroids. [Deadspin, Photo Credit: TMZ] More »
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It's been tough to avoid giving most of our DOTS Truck Monday airtime to General Motors products, since Alameda has more Chevy and GMC trucks than any other variety. We've been especially light on 70s Ford pickups, with just the Frankenstein Mix-N-Match F100 so far, so let's start up our Malaise Era 120-horse V8s and take a look at the kind of truck that would have brought a smile to Billy Carter's face (though Billy preferred a Chevy for his personal ride. More »
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Remember that Ford dealer conference we learned about last week from our friends at PickupTruck.com? That's the conference where we heard about the scoop on Ford's upcoming and long-rumored off-road Ford F-150 Raptor program. Well, there's a second scoop for us from the Ford forum fan-boys at F150Online, spotted by the quick-eyed folks at PUTC — the first unofficial shot of Ford's upcoming 4.4-liter V8 Diesel engine that we've heard will make it's way into the 2010 Ford F-150. We're also told we should expect it to get dropped beneath the rails of the 2010 Ford F-250 and 2010 Ford F-350 to serve as the base-level diesel engine available. And why shouldn't it? Supposedly, this smaller oil-burning V8 will give a 20% boost... More »
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The 2008 F-Series Super Duty trucks will get improved fuel economy, in addition to the Tonka Truck looks. According to Ford, new trucks could see an improvement of as much as 1.5 MPG, or 10 to 15-percent over current models, depending on how the truck is used. In order to achieve this improvement, Ford lowered the front spoiler to improve aerodynamics and replaced the 3.73 ratio rear axles with 3.55 rear axles, thus shortening the amount of rotations needed by the driveshaft to turn the axles. More »
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Ford is having to recall approximately 1.8 million 7.3-liter PowerStroke diesel-powered trucks due to a computer software problem that has caused engine failures for customers, which we think is how I, Robot originally was supposed to start. According to Ford, the camshaft position sensor could break down and disrupt the flow of air and fuel, thus causing the vehicle to stall. Totally not as much fun as farting fire from the last Ford Recall. More »
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Why You Should Buy This Truck: More »
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Exterior Appearance ***** More »
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Loverman: OK, so let's just put this out in the open. You drive a decades-old Toyota Starlet and I drive a tuner-kid, boy-racer WRX Sport Wagon (eat it, Johnson). We agree that the Honda Fit is one of the best cars for sale at the moment, yet we both love the Ford F250 Outlaw. How is this even sorta, kinda possible? More »
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Things supposedly run a bit different in Texas than they do in the rest of the country. For the most part, from what we hear, things are bigger, longer and a whole lot more god-fearing down there. We guess since stuff's so big, long and holy — it'd make sense for the automakers to have spent the end of the last month down there showing off their new hotness in trucks at the "nations biggest state fair." Although we weren't going to be providing coverage of the circle jerk that is the Texas State Fair, today we came across a picture just begging for us to show ya. Above, you'll see the new 2008 Ford F-450 Super Duty with FoMoCo's president for the Americas Ennis Del Mar Mark Fields and country crooner Jack Twist Toby Keith. So, we guess, after you see the pic above and the rest of the pageantry in the gallery, you've probably got the same question we've got: More »
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The hits just keep on coming today for FoMoCo. First it was the hiring of the M&A guy we talked about this morning in the Morning Shift for the Jaguar fire-sale job, then FoMoCo had to restate its earnings to the tune of an additional $120 million or so. Now FoMoCo's got one more entr e on its problematic plate, and it's an extra helping of recalls. The Dearborn, MI-based automaker's added an extra 1.2 million vehicles to the recall it began last year over a faulty speed control deactivation system, a system with a history of acting as a firestarter unless a fused wiring harness is added to the speed control deactivation switch. Last years recall and this new one bring the grand total to six million vehicles recalled due to the electrical bug, with this new group including F-Series pickups, Excursions, Explorers and Mountaineers. That's a hella lot of recalls. More »
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Car photog Chris Doane, whose partial shots of prototypes and near-production models have graced these very pages, recently faced down one of nature's fiercest adversaries: The automotive test engineer. As Doane was casually shooting a "low value target," the 2008 Ford F250 Super Duty Powerstroke — spy photos of which have already appeared in several outlets — the driver went crazier than a bowl of fuck. More »
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Well now — how's this for a strange turn of events — it looks like we've got our own spy photos today. That's right — one of us decided to spend his fourth of july celebrating freedom by heading on over to Dearborn to see what he could spot laying around from the freedom of the public road located just yonder. Maybe one of us has got a career as a spy photog if this whole "blogging" thing jumps the shark. Nah — too much hard work. We'll leave it to the professionals. These are some cool pictures of the new for 2008 Ford F-250 Super Duty. Check out the "related" at the bottom after you've seen the pictures for more on the truck putting the "Super" in "Super Duty." More »
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