2016 Ford Superduty Looks Hot!
Spy Photos of the 2016 Ford Superduty engineers roasting marshmallows
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Quote = GoPackGo "
True. BUT, the significance of these pictures is that they reveal what happens when an aluminum bodied truck catches fire.
Regardless of HOW the fire started, and regardless of whether or not Ford resolves the root cause of the fire, what we are able to see with these images is that IF and WHEN a fire does occur with an aluminum bodied Super Duty, it burns fast, hot, and melts the body entirely.
The question is, as older retirees, will we be able to get out in time? As younger vacationers with our little children all buckled up in car seats in the back, will we be able to unstrap the morass of harnesses in time to get them out in time?
It isn't the cause of the fire that is of concern in this prototype vehicle. That will no doubt be fixed before the first unit gets sold. Of a more longterm concern is the result of the fire. The new aluminum body will likely will not be addressed until many more similar incidents occur, which won't happen without there being several hundred thousand built and sold to consumers, where they can be subjected to all the real life rigors of being on the road, including being exposed to causes of fire that have nothing to do with the truck.
GoPackGo wrote:"
I don't see this as such a big deal. They run vehicles in the desert to see if anything will fail at those extraordinary temps. And they probably do cold weather testing too. The idea of testing is to see if anything fails before they start selling them to the public. Might be something as simple as an oil cooler or fuel line clamp that failed. The important thing is to figure out why it happened.
True. BUT, the significance of these pictures is that they reveal what happens when an aluminum bodied truck catches fire.
Regardless of HOW the fire started, and regardless of whether or not Ford resolves the root cause of the fire, what we are able to see with these images is that IF and WHEN a fire does occur with an aluminum bodied Super Duty, it burns fast, hot, and melts the body entirely.
The question is, as older retirees, will we be able to get out in time? As younger vacationers with our little children all buckled up in car seats in the back, will we be able to unstrap the morass of harnesses in time to get them out in time?
It isn't the cause of the fire that is of concern in this prototype vehicle. That will no doubt be fixed before the first unit gets sold. Of a more longterm concern is the result of the fire. The new aluminum body will likely will not be addressed until many more similar incidents occur, which won't happen without there being several hundred thousand built and sold to consumers, where they can be subjected to all the real life rigors of being on the road, including being exposed to causes of fire that have nothing to do with the truck.
