Ford Aluminum Body
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Sorry, not a photoshop, but a cheap cell phone image. There are other shots from the passenger side showing the burn pattern. The reason the fender is intact is because the wind was blowing the fire towards the passenger side and rearward. The grass on the other side of the truck is heavily burned.
https://www.f150forum.com/f118/when-aluminum-truck-catches-fire-417725/index4/#post5793657
If anyone has seen the aftermath of a plane crash where there was a fire, usually all that is left are charred bodies, wingtips, engines and maybe the tail, the rest is slag.
Those chevy commercials were also found to be highly faked, especially the tool box drop. As for dent resistance, it is better than steel. I had a prop fly off my plane and hit the side, not a mark, but on my last truck, same thing happened and dinged the door.
One more thing to think of, 5 Star, yes 5 star crash rating! Aluminum has this other property that steel doesn't, ability to absorb a lot of energy, and that right there helps give the F150 a 5 star rating as the body absorbs all that energy and doesn't transfer it to the occupants like steel does.
BTW, my 16 still looks like new underneath and I drive southern Wisconsin winters. Even the chassis is like new. I have a set of bilstien shocks with the aluminum body and they are both corroded from salt, but the truck is perfect.
Here is another one that burned. Not a photoshop.
https://www.f150forum.com/f118/when-aluminum-truck-catches-fire-417725/index4/#post5793657
If anyone has seen the aftermath of a plane crash where there was a fire, usually all that is left are charred bodies, wingtips, engines and maybe the tail, the rest is slag.
Those chevy commercials were also found to be highly faked, especially the tool box drop. As for dent resistance, it is better than steel. I had a prop fly off my plane and hit the side, not a mark, but on my last truck, same thing happened and dinged the door.
One more thing to think of, 5 Star, yes 5 star crash rating! Aluminum has this other property that steel doesn't, ability to absorb a lot of energy, and that right there helps give the F150 a 5 star rating as the body absorbs all that energy and doesn't transfer it to the occupants like steel does.
BTW, my 16 still looks like new underneath and I drive southern Wisconsin winters. Even the chassis is like new. I have a set of bilstien shocks with the aluminum body and they are both corroded from salt, but the truck is perfect.
Here is another one that burned. Not a photoshop.
