That new Ford F150 is going to cost you
I remember THIS thread from last month then this caught my eye on Pickuptrucks site. LINK The final outcome will be interesting.
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bid_time wrote:catfishmontana wrote:I was thinking the same thing. At that time there will be a post complaining about why they didn't keep the aluminum.
I can't believe you guys are worried about aluminum. You guys are really going to flip in a few years when carbon fiber takes over. There are already lots of carbon fiber exotics, and it's trickling down. My mustang has a carbon fiber driveshaft. My snowmobile has a carbon fiber overstructure and bumper.
Some new ideas work, some don't. Here are the some that don't.
Famous last words:
Ford Motor Co's all-new Power Stroke 6L turbo diesel V-8 wins a 2003 Ward's 10 best Engines award not because it's a diesel accessible to everyone, but because it's the best current example of how good a diesel can be when the best of current diesel technologies converge.
Why do we need lifeboats on an unsinkable ship? Unsinkable technologies aboard this ship say these are useless.
Why put all this money into redesigning a fuel tank? Lets just pay off a few people when their family members get burnt to a crisp. It will cost us $137 million for a recall and only $49 million for a payoff. Lets make some money.
NASA spends billions of dollars in R&D and you want to keep this bird on the ground because it's a little cold today? 5, 4, 3, 2, 1........
The Edsel was not only a superior product (as compared to Oldsmobile/Buick competition), but the details of its styling and specifications were the result of a sophisticated market analysis and research and development effort that would essentially guarantee it broad acceptance by the buying public when the car was introduced.
With over 4 years and 10 million miles of testing the 6.4; the 6.4 diesel is better than the outgoing 6.0 in everyway.
Is the aluminum body F150 going to be a 6.0 or a 7.3? Only time will tell. :B
