Pete Reyes, Chief Engineer, 2015 Ford F-150 Interview - TruckTrend Magazine
"But very quickly, you're out climbing muddy hills, so they were a key mode of transportation there. After school, we would take it around the back of the school where there were big sand and dirt dunes and scurry up those dunes. That was when I first understood that 4x4s can climb mountains and do a lot of foolish stuff going across those mountains. " Reyes returned to attend the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and after graduating in 1986 with a Mechanical Engineering degree, went to work for Ford. "I had five or six job offers, but the one that stood out was Ford Truck Operations. I went into the heavy truck division, classes six, seven, and eight, so I thought I would get to engineer not only trucks but also the trash hauling and dumping systems and all these other things that Ford actually did not engineer. Then I found out that we do cabs, engines, powertrains, and chassis, not second-unit bodies. Prior to that, I had spent a decade on Super Duty trucks working as a steering, chassis, suspension, tire, and wheel guy on the '99, then a program manager, then vehicle engineering manager for the '05. Then I did the '10 Taurus and the freshening... I moved to this job in February 2010. PR: We had a tagline on the walls very early: "Lighter, Stronger, Smarter. Every time you do an all-new architecture, you're going to move capability. Source: www.trucktrend.com
