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TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * USA: Ford's aluminum pickup trucks
* Michigan - Aluminum F-150 is battle tough
Dearborn,MICH,USA -The Detroit News, by Henry Payne -October 9, 2014: -- The F-150's huge three-bar grille growls. Its "c-clamp" headlights intimidate. This truck is a fit, aluminum heavyweight fighter. The console compartment could hide a Mini Cooper... These Fords don't do things half way... These two aluminum-skinned, alphanumeric-badged industrial behemoths signal that Ford Motor Co.'s ambition hasn't shrunk in 70 years... In 2014 Bill Ford has risen to the challenge of federal mpg standards to convert Ford's Dearborn and Kansas City F-150 assembly plants to aluminum construction to win the war against the global warming... Aluminum is just half the story as Ford has also developed a formidable artillery of new turbocharged engines. Where four huge engines carried the B-24 aloft, four engine options power the F-150... This is no tin-skinned B-24, but a rock-solid, 6000-series-military-alloy aluminum brute. With four wheels churning and twin turbos spooling, the 4,806-pound rhino never protested... But will the 1,500-repair shop infrastructure be able to mend aluminum as efficiently as steel? Will insurance rates increase? Will turbos prove as durable as diesels? ...
* Missouri - First Wentzville-made trucks going to dealerships
(Photo: Colorado is the perfect daily commuter with a best-in-class EPA estimated 26 MPG highway)
Wentzville,MO,USA -Associated Press/KMOV -October 8, 2014: -- The General Motors plant in Wentzville celebrated a major milestone on Wednesday as the Missouri-made mid-sized pickup trucks rolled out to dealerships... Gov. Jay Nixon, UAW leaders, GM officials and more than 125 Chevy and GMC dealers were on hand at the sprawling suburban St. Louis plant for the rollout of the Wentzville-made thirty-seven of the new trucks: GMC Canyon and Chevrolet Colorado trucks, parked in the shape of a GM logo on the assembly plant parking lot... GM is adding workers next year to staff a third shift, creating 750 jobs. The factory already employs 2,600 people who build the Colorado and Canyon as well as the Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana full-size vans... Demand has been strong even before the trucks hit the road. GM said last month that nearly 100,000 prospective buyers had gone online to customize a Chevrolet Colorado or a GMC Canyon pickup and get a price. Meanwhile, 30,000 advance orders came from dealers...
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