Ford is placing a huge bet on its aluminum crash diet using the alloy for all of the body panels and the bed of its redesigned f 150 pickup.
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Since 2014 the f series share of the full size pickup market has grown 1 3 percentage points to 37 8 percent.
Ford uses aluminum body parts to make a strong f 150 pickup making it the most best selling vehicle.
It claims that aluminum can improve the vehicle s.
Lighter may be what you re looking for if you re buying a sports car but for those who were in the market for a rough and ready pickup truck it didn.
And big g s examples of.
What s more though aluminum does rust it doesn t rust like steel.
Why do trucks have multiple tow ratings.
Ford f 150 has a tough nosed design great resale value and a number of luxurious features.
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Using aluminum in parts of the bodywork is bad enough but from 2016 onwards ford started to make most of the exterior panels of its popular f 150 pickup truck from this much lighter metal.
With more aluminum comes new problems by justin lloyd miller on october 8 2019 one thing was quite apparent at ford s launch of the redesigned 2015 f 150 at the detroit auto show last week.
All in on aluminum.
I know ford expeditions and chevy tahoe s had some issue with the paint pealing off of the rear lift gates because they went aluminum to save weight and i was told that the ford issue was the actual aluminum compound had to much iron ore in it and it was popping the paint and the the gm product was a primer issue.
So why use aluminum at all then.
By utilizing aluminum through the body of the f 150 ford was able to save 750 pounds of weight.
Aluminum is both lightweight and strong.
Just five years after shaking up the industry with the aluminum bodied f 150 ford uses a variety of materials to save weight in the 2020 explorer.
When a redesigned ford f 150 pickup truck arrived in late 2014 with aluminum bodywork it prompted attacks from rivals and concerns from truck buyers.
One of the biggest questions was whether.
This means more efficiency and more capability.
