Thanks to revisions and improvements for model-year 2018, drivers of the latest Ford F-150 can bask smugly in the top-dog status of their machines at the jobsite or boat launch – thanks to the achievement of the segment’s highest towing capacity, payload capacity, and the most torque available in any competitive gas- or diesel-burning pickup.

It’s no secret by now that the 2015 Ford F-150 pickup is chock full of innovation. Its aluminum body has garnered most of the headlines, but the truck is also ahead of the curve in a number of other areas. As of the end of May, Ford has sold 48,868 F-150s in Canada this year. Trucks have always been high-profit products for the automake

Ford's F-150 Limited is getting a little more ferocious for 2019. The high-lux truck adds the Raptor's high-output V6 under the hood. Previously, the most powerful engine in the F-150 was the 375 hp 3.5L twin-turbo EcoBoost V6. Unless you stepped up to the desert-blasting Raptor, that is. The dirt-slinging version got a high-output engine that m

I think Ford spends enough time reminding us in their advertising that they have the best-selling pickup truck in Canada. They’ve held the crown for 52 years. As nice as this truck is, it’s still a truck that can handle as much work as you want to throw at it. Here we have a 2019 Ford F-150 , but not just any F-150. This is as loaded a

Borrego Springs, CA – “Look out! I think they’ve spotted us!” Time to get a grip on the wheel, activate “Baja” mode, and give it hell. It wasn’t going to be long before Immortan Joe and his War Boys in souped-up Beetles and triple-decker Cadillacs were going to be right on top of us. I could see the flags attached to their tails on the horizon. I

Since the invention of modern pickups, there have only been three companies – all domestic – embedded in the collective consciousness of North Americans. Dodge or Ram, depending on the day, has been building pickups since 1921. The ‘GMC Truck’ name first appeared as early as 1912. But Ford beat General Motors by 12 years when, in 1900, Henry Ford b

Ford and GM have created a new 10-speed automatic – each building and calibrating theirs in-house – and have begun bolting it into various models, including the 2017 Ford F-150 with its revised 3.5-litre EcoBoost V6. With the revisions, the latest F-150 now employs little less than the market’s very latest in fuel-saving tech for big torque a

If you do not believe in love at first drive, then you have never been behind the wheel of a Raptor. A truck that can tackle a Baja rally straight off the showroom floor. I was smitten from the very first time I hoisted myself up into the first-generation Raptor and was turned loose on a desert racecourse. You do not know love until you

Overkill. The word dates back to the 1950s, when stockpiles of nuclear weapons guaranteed that even the rubble would be blasted into atoms, enough firepower to snuff out every human candle on the planet. Did you ever have an R/C Bigfoot as a kid? It applies here too. The 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor is more truck than anyone could possibl

What an engine! Some truck guys think a 2.7L V6 has no place under the hood of a full-sized pickup, and that said engine would turn in acceleration on par with a tranquilized sloth and achieve torque output comparable to the average wrist watch. Some truck guys think a 2.7L V6 has no place under the hood of a full-sized pickup, and that said

To the surprise of no one in particular, truck buyers usually believe that more is better. On that note, Ford has announced two big changes to give 2017 F-150 buyers more. The first is a new second generation 3.5L Ecoboost V6. This one makes 450 lb-ft of torque, beating the Ram Ecodiesel at its own game, and by 30 lb-ft, while power remains the s

With full-size pickup truck manufacturers constantly reaching for new plateaus in luxury, it's a rare day that we learn of a new pickup trim positioned near the bottom end of the lineup. Therefore, Ford earns a tip of the hat for today's announcement that it's bringing the STX trim designation back to its F-150 range in an effort to give truck b

The following is a list of vehicles from recent test drives that have used more fuel (as measured by hand and driven over very similar routes) than the 2018 Ford F-150 4x4 Power Stroke: All said, F-150’s newly available diesel wouldn’t (and doesn’t) feel out of place in a $90,000 luxury SUV. 2016 Toyota Tacoma V6 4x4 (very low-mileage t

DENVER, CO – Diesel has had its issues in passenger vehicles, but trucks are a whole ’nother animal. It’s all about towing and hauling power, as well as fuel economy, and it’s now making its way from the heavy-duty models into the half-tons. Linear power with no effort and no lag, even with a heavy load in the back. Ford now offers an a

We’d driven it on a highway whose bends made it much more suitable for a sports car than a hopped-up muscle truck. We’d driven it on sand so deep you’d risk sinking in if you stopped. We’d driven it up rocky embankments so slick with red dust they would probably work on the set as a substitute for Mars. Considering their proximity to Hollywood, the