Aluminum body on F150

Likes to tow wrote:
I'm skeptical of new things. Engineers and marketing experts sometimes make mistakes. I suppose the Ford 6.0 diesel being such a problem makes me this way. It chased me away from Ford trucks when I required diesel power. It's obvious that by taking weight off you can go with smaller engines. The CAFE and EPA regulations require the automotive industry to make drastic design changes in their line.

Aluminum makes this possible. However I overheard a conversation yesterday that makes me wonder about this latest gamble by Ford. A guy was telling his friend that the present CEO of Ford is a previous CEO from ALCOA Aluminum and this accounts for the push to aluminum. Also I heard in the conversation about all the expense and proceedures that reputable body shops must go through to be endorsed by insurance companies. Has anyone purchased insurance yet on these new trucks?? Some of the guys I talk to are already looking at the 2014 models so they can get the "last of the good ones."

When these trucks have been around about 5 years and have a track record that I can verify then and only then will I laydown the cash.

Close, but no cigar. The previous CEO of Ford (Alan Mulally) was the previous CEO of Boeing, which used a bunch of aluminum to make their products, airplanes.

Neither Mulally nor Mark Fields has ever been closely aligned with Alcoa. Not that it would matter if either had been. Whomever you overheard was was wrong.