Thursday, January 5, 2012

Motor Trend Names F-150 Truck Of The Year!


Sturman & Larkin Ford is excited to start a new year, with a fresh new truck! Looking for something bold, durable, powerful, and long lasting? Look no further the Truck Of The Year [F-150] is here!

CNN Money posts:

The Ford F-150 has been named Motor Trend magazine's Truck of the Year.

Although it wasn't substantially redesigned for the 2012 model year, Ford did make some significant changes on the truck that have brought important improvements, the magazine said.

Ford reintroduced V6 engines in its full-size truck this year and they've been a hit, accounting for more than half of all F-150s sold. The great majority of those V6s have been Ford's turbocharged EcoBoost engine.

The big selling point for the EcoBoost engine isn't fuel economy, according to Ford (F, Fortune 500), although it is somewhat more efficient than the larger V8 engines. Instead, it's the truck's towing and hauling power when equipped with the EcoBoost engine that attracts customers. The turbocharged V6 gives the truck more towing power than the larger 5.0-liter V8.

"It mastered every task we subjected it to, acing our instrumented tests at the proving grounds and swaying opinions during our real-world road evaluations," Motor Trend editor-in-chief Ed Loh said of the F-150 in an announcement.




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