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Despite some advances in design, the intransigence of China's copyright enforcers means the country's car companies still ripoff popular designs with glee. The new JAC 4R3 pickup is obviously a copy of the American Ford F-150, but it's not a bad one. More »
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The Ford F-150 SVT Raptor pickup emerged in 2007 as a desert runner, was recast as a Michigan mudder and then as a snowbird-slash-missile-site-transporter. For its fourth phase, Ford is positioning the long-travel-suspension pickup as a rock crawler. Having never scrabbled the Earth's craggy layer in a truck before, I was a natural sucker for Ford's latest demo of the Raptor's abusage cycle in Moab. Who would crack first, the truck's frame or the on-roader's spine? More »
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This may be the most unbelievably heartwarming thing you'll see today. 59-year-old Brenda Hewlett had never held a hockey stick before last Friday night. She could barely walk on the ice but she needed a vehicle to replace her failing truck. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5870428&view=rss&microfeed=true In response to reader comments — and FoMoCo whining — about observed low-end power output (or rather, the lack of measured output below 2,000 rpm) during PickupTrucks.com's dyno test of Ford's all-new 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6, they've rerun the test. More »
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The CIM-10 Bomarc surface-to-air missile was a lunatic collaboration between the Michigan Aerospace Research Center and Boeing. A rocket/ramjet hybrid of the rip-roaring postwar military-industrial complex, the Bomarc was designed to hurtle itself into an advancing formation of Tupolevs at 2 1/2 times the speed of sound and detonate a 10-kiloton atomic fireball. With the rise of the ICBM, the Air Force took to using them as target drones and had retired the arsenal by 1972. The very next year, the American auto industry began its protracted slide into unmitigated messiness. More »
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You know those Dennis Leary-narrated Ford F-150 commercials written with in-your-face style and text-on-video graphics? Humorist Mark Little's upped the Mamet factor with this parody commercial for the Ferd F-Teenthousand. More »
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A Ford truck achieved revenge for the Italians naming their new F1 car the Ferrari F150. Sadly, this 458 Italia only traversed 500 miles and therefore never had the chance to burn to the ground before being violently struck. More »
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While it won't be until March that we'll learn just how fast Ferrari's new F1 car, the F150 is, we can probably expect it to outpace this previous attempt at a Ferrari F150. (Hat tip to boluke01!) More »
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On Saturday, Ford did an engine teardown and inspection of a "torture-tested" 3.5-liter EcoBoost twin-turbo V6 from the F-150. The engine ran for 300 hours straight, simulating 150,000 real-world miles, then dragged 110,000 lbs. So, how's it look? More »
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Ford's decision to top the F-150 with a 3.5-liter turbo V6 instead of the traditional V8 paid off with an official fuel economy rating of 16 mpg city/22 mpg highway, best in its class. How much is gas again? [Ford] More »
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Continuing its proud history of vehicle fires, Ford is recalling the 2011 F-Series and the Ford Edge/Lincoln MKX crossover after two 2011 Ford F-150s caught fire at the Dearborn Assembly Plant. Built Ford flammable? [Pickuptrucks.com and @DavidShepardson] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5721354&view=rss&microfeed=true The next-generation F-150 platform may use magnesium-aluminum and even go semi-unibody. Yes, but will it be Taurus-based? [PickupTrucks.com] More »
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PickupTrucks.com and USA Today are the only publications with a set of brass trailer hitches big enough to run a shootout of V6 two-doors, the Rodney Dangerfields of pickup trucks. The winner? The V6-powered 2011 Ford F-150. [PickupTrucks, USA Today] More »
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Numbers for the twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V6 Ecoboost Ford F-150: 365-hp, 420 lb-ft of torque at 1,700rpm. For reference, Ford's new 6.2-liter V8 returns 434 lb-ft at 4,500rpm. Point being, die-hard truck buyers don't trust twin-turbo V6's. Yet. [Pickuptrucks.com] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5643212&view=rss&microfeed=true Want to buy a 2011 Ford Ranger? Tough. We're not getting it because it's already 90% the size of an F-150. Then why doesn't Ford just sell F-150s globally? [PickupTrucks] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5642764&view=rss&microfeed=true NHTSA opens probe after 32 complaints of fuel tank straps failing on F-150 pickups from 1997-2001. [NHTSA] More »
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Ford's revealed their 2011 Harley F-150 and aside from getting styling upgrades and a leather 'n chrome interior, the truck's getting the same 411 hp, 434 lb-ft 6.2-liter V8 found in the Raptor. The paint job's kinda cool, too. More »
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A man test driving an F-150 at a Missouri dealership accidentally put the truck in reverse, hit the gas and destroyed two Milans. Though, as Mike Levine points out, it's one way to "Get rid of excess Mercury inventory." [KMBC] More »
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The intercooler in this spy photo is a peek at the 400 hp, 400 lb-ft twin-turbocharged V6 Ecoboost-powered F-150. It's almost as much power as Ford's 411 hp 6.2-liter V8 and will offer a rumored 23 MPG. [Pickuptrucks.com] More »
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Externally, the 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor is indistinguishable from the 2010 model. But under its skin lives a brand-new, 6.2-liter, 411-hp V-8. We didn't desert race it, but we did cover it in two inches of mud. More »
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This scene, photographed in Tampa Bay, Florida makes us wonder if "Fits a Shark" was ever a check box for a prospective Ford F-150 buyer. (Hat tip to Mike!) [WTSP] More »
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A dealership owner rolled this SVT Raptor demo on his "private farm" so they didn't file a police report and sold it on eBay... with an original clear title. Hey, it's not damaged. It's broken-in. (H/T to Jason!) [eBay] More »
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The common view in driving games is the third person, above-car angle. Works pretty well. But what if you drove cars like that in real life? The hooligans at Rooster Teeth decided to try. The results? Predictably terrible. NSFW language. More »
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Power a 1995 Ford F-150 with a 14.0L Cummins N14 mounted in the bed? What could possibly go wrong? That's what Jim Harris said before he dropped a Peterbilt engine into his son's F-150. There are heroes among us. More »
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It's about 9 degrees across Minnesota today, but even that kind of cold can't prevent trucks from occasionally falling through frozen lakes. Luckily, Minnesotan Jeff Bosek comes to the rescue with his recovery services. Read more at PickupTrucks.com. [Pickuptrucks.com] More »
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There's nothing more embarrassing than having your big, macho American RWD truck towed out of the snow by a friend in a Legacy GT Spec.B. Quick, someone record this. [via Connerthecat] More »
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Ford's Alan Mulally was delighted to hear the pictured F-150 saved it's driver after plowing through a herd of cattle that wandered onto the 65 MPH-plus highway. The reason why trucks are so popular in Texas below the jump. More »
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The EMC Flash (sounds like an 80s hip-hop group) was teased at EMC's Indiana HQ Saturday where production is planned for 2010. The plug-in EREV hybrid pickup based on the Ford F-150 may get 250 MPGe when optioned appropriately. [PickupTrucks.com] More »
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Yesterday, GM announced a return to basics. That's good because sometimes, mobility alone is all we can afford. Few bare-bones cars had something making them more than basic transportation. Some, starting with the Model T, did. Here's our favorites. More »
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Last week, PickupTrucks.com reported Ford's received numerous requests for a crew cab version of their upcoming off-road-ready, desert-running SVT F-150 Raptor. More »
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A madman Ford nut is hand-building an incredible Hummer H1 replica on the bones of a junker Ford F-150. The full scope of this fabrication fest can only be appreciated in the huge gallery below. More »
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Ford CEO Alan Mulally, enraged after Dennis Kneale defamed 'merican automakers infotainment capabilities, is on CNBC's Power Lunch today at noon to beat the crap out of him and "sync" his Blackberry with an F-150. More »
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AT&T announced yesterday it will spend $565 million over the next decade on more than 15,000 hybrid and natural gas-powered vehicles, mostly from Ford. Propane-powered Roush F-250s or Econolines anyone? [Freep] More »
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Apparently, Massachusetts police officers have been spotted pulling over motorists in unmarked Ford F-150s. If true, it'll take being courteously aware of officers while observing lawful speeds to a whole new level of difficulty. More »
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The 2010 Ford Harley-Davidson F-150 is the latest in Ford's line of co-branded trucks combining the popularity of the F-150 and the style of Harley-Davidson. But what kind of substance lies beneath the style? More »
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According to PickupTrucks, Ford apparently loves the above new Chevy commercial where spokesman Howie Long makes fun of a Ford owner's "man step" on the new 2009 Ford F-150. More »
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Compared to the surprise pick of a Korean luxury car as 2009 car of the year, the selection of the 2009 Ford F-150 as Truck of the Year was a bit underwhelming. More »
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Our gratuitous burnout ripping the tires to shreds demonstrates this ROUSH F-150 burns petroleum-based rubber. However, this very special pickup doesn't fuel up with pedestrian dinosaur juices like gas or diesel. Instead, it's powered fully by propane, the same thing powering a backyard grill.

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