PRODUCTION * USA - Ford plant hails launch of new Super Duty
Louisville,Ky,USA -The Louisville Courier Journal, by ROBERT SCHOENBERGER/The Detroit Free Press (Detroit,Mich,USA) -Dec 19, 2006: --Ford Motor Co.had planned to start producing its 2008 F-Series Super Duty truck lineat the Kentucky Truck Plant in January...With few new vehicles heading to dealerships over the next year,Fordneeds its 2007 and 2008 launches to succeed.Super Duty trucksaccount for about 40% of the F-Series line,Ford'sbiggest seller...New for the 2008model year is anF-450 pickup.EarlierF-450 modelswere available only as chassis-cab units -- trucks with cabs and frame rails extending out of the back instead of a pickup box.The F-450will be able to tow 24,000 pounds...(Photo by ARZA BARNETT/Associated Press: A version of Ford's big pickup -- a 2008 F-450 Super Duty model -- makes a powerful entrance during a ceremony at the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Ky., on Monday)
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