2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty Regains Towing Leadership with Production Upgrades; Leads in Customer Satisfaction | see them at McMahon Ford your St. Louis Ford Dealership
Super Duty regains conventional towing leadership Customer satisfaction of 83 percent tops all competitors Half of heavy duty truck segment goes to Super Duty DEARBORN, Mich., Feb. 7, 2011 – Production begins this week on Ford F-Series Super Duty trucks with upgraded towing capacity. The beefed-up frame and hitch return the industry’s best-selling heavy-duty truck [...]
FORD F-150 ECOBOOST ‘HERO’ ENGINE LAID BARE IN FRONT OF LIVE AUDIENCE IN FINAL WEB DOCUMENTARY | see them at McMahon Ford your St. Louis Ford Dealership
Key internal components of 2011 F-150 EcoBoost™ “hero” engine found to be within rigid factory specifications during unprecedented live teardown at the 2011 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) Ford engineers say EcoBoost truck engine could go another 150,000 miles after enduring harsh testing that simulated more than 160,000 miles Engine teardown featured in final [...]
2011 FORD F-150 ECOBOOST BEATS ALL OTHERS WITH COMBINATION OF FUEL ECONOMY, POWER, CAPABILITY | Ford Motor Company Newsroom
The 2011 Ford F-150 equipped with all-new 3.5-liter EcoBoost™ truck engine is officially EPA-certified at 16 mpg city and 22 mpg highway Outstanding fuel economy complements the best-in-class 420 lb.-ft. of torque this engine produces to enable best-in-class conventional towing of 11,300 pounds and best-in-class payload of 3,060 pounds No other manufacturer offers this combination [...]
FORD OFFERS UNPRECEDENTED LOOK AT TEARDOWN OF F-150 ECOBOOST ENGINE TO PUBLIC AT 2011 NAIAS | Ford Motor Company Newsroom
What: F-150 EcoBoost™ engine teardown. When: Jan. 15, 2011, 11 a.m. Where: North American International Auto Show, Cobo Hall, Detroit; Ford’s Powertrain display Teardown free and open to the public 2011 Ford F-150 EcoBoost “hero” engine has racked up the equivalent of more than 160,000 miles and 10 years of rugged use The 3.5-liter EcoBoost truck engine [...]
GLOWING TOWING SHOWING: 2011 FORD F-150 ECOBOOST BEATS COMPETITION AT DAVIS DAM DEMONSTRATION | See them at McMahon Ford your St. Louis Ford Dealership
2011 Ford F-150 EcoBoost™ won a powertrain performance exercise against the competition towing a trailer up Davis Dam area in Arizona 3.5-liter EcoBoost truck engine defeated larger engines from Chevrolet and Ram; each truck towed 9,000 pounds, with the EcoBoost outperforming both in sprint (0-60 mph) and longer-distance (3 ½-mile course) demonstrations This real-world application [...]
FORD F-150 SVT RAPTOR SUPERCAB MODEL SNAGS AWARD; NEW SUPERCREW HEADED TO DEALERS SOON | see them at McMahon Ford your St. Louis Ford Dealership
2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor SuperCab wins Four Wheeler magazine’s Pickup Truck of the Year award, which is the 10th award for the off-road performance truck Vehicles were judged during a rigorous weeklong 1,000-mile competition in Southern California in such environments as mountain trails, desert sand dunes, stream crossings and Interstates, from sea level to in [...]
FORD TO COMPLETE REAR CAMERA ROLL-OUT ON NEARLY ALL MODELS | See them at McMahon Ford your St. Louis Ford Dealership
DEARBORN, Mich., Dec. 3 – Ford Motor Company will continue its aggressive technology onslaught by completing the roll-out of its innovative Rear View Camera System that will be available on nearly all Ford and Lincoln models by the end of 2011. “Ford is making new innovations such as the Rear View Camera System available to [...]
FORD USES ‘FORENSIC’ ENGINEERING TO INVESTIGATE PART IMPERFECTIONS SMALLER THAN A SPECK OF SAND | Ford Motor Company Newsroom
Ford lab development analysts search for tiny imperfections in car parts; part of relentless drive for quality Using a powerful tabletop-sized computed tomography (CT) scanner, Ford analysts are able to see flaws down to 17 microns – less than the size of a single particle of beach sand When the reason for the deficiency in [...]
2011 FORD F-150 ECOBOOST TOWS MAXIMUM LOAD AT HIGH SPEEDS AROUND NASCAR RACETRACK | Ford Motor Company Newsroom
2011 Ford F-150 EcoBoost™ “hero engine” runs for 24 hours at Homestead-Miami Speedway as another demonstration of the durability of the new 3.5-liter EcoBoost™ truck engine arriving in early 2011 2011 Ford F-150 EcoBoost pulls a trailer with two NASCAR Sprint Cup Ford Fusions weighing 11,300 pounds at full throttle around the site of NASCAR’s [...]
2011 FORD TAURUS, SUPER DUTY AND MUSTANG GT WIN KBB.COM BEST RESALE VALUE AWARDS | Ford Motor Company Newsroom
2011 Ford Taurus, Super Duty and Mustang GT have earned Kelley Blue Book’s kbb.com Best Resale Value Awards in the full-size car, full-size pickup and high-performance car categories, respectively Editors of kbb.com praised Taurus’ combination of style, efficiency and value; Super Duty impressed with its two new engines and all-new six-speed transmission; and Mustang GT [...]
