10 Things You Didn't Know About the 2015 Ford F-150 - Car and Driver (blog)
Ford made quite the splash at the 2014 Detroit auto show with its all-new F-150 pickup , and a big part of the truck’s lightning rod effect can be traced to its nearly all-aluminum construction. This has folks asking a lot of questions—and Ford working tirelessly to answer them—mostly about the truck’s durability and performance. You’ve Already Seen It. If you watched the 2013 Baja 1000 off-road race, you’ve already seen the 2015 F-150. Not ringing a bell. Those tricky devils over in Dearborn looked at the Baja 1000 and thought, boy, would it ever make a good torture test for the 2015 F-150. But they couldn’t let people actually see the 2015 F-150. In perhaps the most clever camouflage job ever,... When Ford Says It’s Aluminum, It Means It. More than 90 percent of the F-150’s cab is aluminum, and the bed is entirely aluminum. The only notable steel components in the truck are the door latches and hinges, body rivets, mounting studs for fitting bolt-on parts, the cross-door side-impact beams, the majority of the firewall, and, of course, the frame. Ford’s piece uses two bits of steel with a damping material sandwiched between them. Source: blog.caranddriver.com
