New Ford Trucks Solve Weighty Problem

The time was when truck buy­ers con­cen­trated only on pay­load and tow­ing capacity. Nothing else mat­tered. Not today.

The lat­est gen­er­a­tion of full-size trucks now offer the sort of high-tech, high-touch fea­tures you might expect in a lux­ury car. But they still want per­for­mance. What is Ford adding to the mix to make it work?

The Detroit automaker could take things are big step fur­ther when it launches the next gen­er­a­tion of what has been, for more than a quarter-century, America’s best-selling auto­mo­tive line. The upcom­ing remake of the F-Series will report­edly make a major shift away from steel to alu­minum in a bid to shave as much as 700 pounds off the big truck’s hefty girth.