OT Geezus Chriss, Take a Peek at the New Ford F-650 Mega Crew Cab

This fkr is for real. I doubt Ford will ever see enough orders to produce this thing. The F-650 Engine has been around for awhile now. The U-Haul I rented a few weeks back was a Ford F-650, and could easily pull a Semi Trailer or Two. Went up the Tehachapi Grade like it was going downhill, passing all Semi's along the way......hardy har.....

 

Got a healthy respect for Ford Trucks during my 13 year run with Cable Companies. We had an 89 F-150 assigned to the parts department. I towed 5 meter and 3 meter dishes. ran delivery runs from Orlando to Pompano, cross Alligator Alley to Cape Coral, then Tampa and back. Other than normal PMCS that truck ran everywhere we wanted any time. When I left it was 11 years old, still going strong. Just wonder how well the aluminum bodies will hold up on the '15s and beyond.

 

I too owned a Ford F-150 from 93, until last year. That thing ran without a prob. In the 70s, We had an old work truck F-150 ran (with that big 390 Engine), we ran into the ground and it would not die. Shit, we even drove it off of a 20 foot cliff (accidentally), and it still ran, tho' it needed a front end alignment after that.

Had a Bronco I loved to death, but it was a POS with its front brake systems. A 1990 brand new, which had to have the entire Brake System, incl. Rotary Disc, the entire damn thing was rebuilt twice, and broke a 3rd. I found out 50% of Ford Trucks built in Toronto (I believe it was), had either/or Paint issues, mine flew off going down the Freeway. NTM-those front brake issues. I believe that was applicable to 87-92's, only....

When I got home I had basketball sized missing pieces of Paint. Boy did that piss me off, then the fkn run arounds galore. Til I got ahold of a Ford Regional Director, who made a 1 year wait for a new paint job on a new truck, turned this mess of shit around in 1 week.

 

can't let my wife see that....then she'll want the matching 12 horse trailer (and the dozen horses).

 

and I bet she won't settle for a Mule Train either. Gotta' be Clysedales......and a buggy....!

When I moved to Luzianna, a Buddy of mine was there waiting in Lake Charles, (his home town), tho' he had been out here for 20 years working. He drove a Chevy Truck, the entire time I knew him.

He tells me before I even showed up in my Ford. "Down South here, this is not Ford Country, its Chevy Country". Once I looked around the parking lot, sure as shit, the only other Ford trucks I saw were Company Fleet trucks.

When Dodge came out with their new look Ram Trucks, I'd see a Chevy Guy, drive in a brand new Dodge, and within a year, I saw damn near NO Chevy's, my Ford stood alone, and all those "Chevy Guys" quickly became Dodge boys. So much for Loyalty to the Brand....!!!

 

Many of the Cable Contractors here liked the Dodge Dualies with the Cummings Turbo Diesel. Fords were big as well, Chevrolet sheeeeeeeeeeet! I still like the short bed single cab Pickups with the sliding glass rear windows. For me now a Pick Up is Impractical but were I to get one I'd have to go with the Dodge. The 150s are nice but I'd have to wait and see how the aluminum bodies work out.

 

I hear ya' and to tell the truth, those Ford Aluminum bodies, look like recycled beer cans, like the Japanese Datsun, Toyota POS trucks from their start, to present.

Has anyone heard if Ford has gone with an Aluminum Engine Block as well? If not, I'm sure its only a matter of time...?

 

Sorry but that's getting a little ridiculous to me. I mean can you say gas guzzler boys & girls.

 

...believe it or not, I've never owned a Ford product or a Chrysler product in my life.

 

How about GM, including all their subsidiary companies, Corvette, Cadillac???

Mazda doesn't export to the USA, all American Built for American use. Japanese built for Japan. Thus the Mazda *and now a few other Japanese Cars, are 90% built in the States. Less say an engine here or tranny there....

I recall benchmarking with Mazda Omaha in the late 80s, when Rockwell was looking at massive layoffs....Mazda had a 7 month downtime, of building NO cars, yet did not lay off one person in their Omaha, NB plant. They worked with the city and state to put all Mazda workers to work, from cleaning up city parks, as well as all Infrastructure, and tons of other jobs, where temp help was necessary......

I found and still find that utterly amazing, to see how a Japanese Firm tried to teach our Aerospace Firms, "How not to lay a person off, with no work at hand", yet a promise of work in many months to come.....

 

Just saw a fully tricked out Toyota tundra at the dealership picking up my wife's car.....$51K! I'd have to consider a Ford Raptor at that price range.

 

...yeah, all of my vehicles have been either GM products or imports.

 

A 51$K Tundra, I'd settle for an American Truck any day......There's a Helluva Ram Truck for sale up here for 39K$, all bells and whistles, 1 Ton, all bells and whistles.....an 014 Model, and 12K cheaper....

 

My favorite import, was my Honda Civic in 75, now that was a great little car. Never see them anymore, and it easily got 40mpg.....a classic, yet cheap enough, they're all scrapped and destroyed. The 1st Aluminum block engine I ever had. Needed a brand new block at 53,000 miles.

Luckily a buddy of mine had just left the Honda Dealer, as their Service Mgr. and got a brand new factory block, under warranty, even tho' my Warranty had expired, just a couple of 1,000 miles prior.

 

When I was working on the Space Shuttle Program. I got into a heated 2 day enlargement with the fkn UAW Union Rep.

He was preaching to me, how much better Union AC shops were to work in than Non-Union. The ass-clown had never worked in anything but a Union Shop. By then I had worked for Lockheed (IAM-AW), and Northrop for a short time, (non-union). His arguments held no water.

I told him, I actually was paid better at Northrop, had less trouble with anyone, and believed in buying American Built vehicles, (moreso then; than now, yet most Imports are built right here, in the USA; and are really not imports, more info. if you want it). The bastage, ranted and raved how fkn great Unions were. Unions had cost me a promotion years prior.

On the way home, as I am sitting in a long line of cars, in my 1970 Chevy PU, I see the ass clown drive by in a WHAT? A FIAT.......I was all over his ass the next day, even called him a fkn fraud of a Union Steward.

Found myself permanently employed by Northrop, for $2 bucks more an hour, to go from a Mechanical Design Engineer, to a Supv. of Stress, Design, and RCS/LOA Engineering, on the B2, for starters....fk Union shops, they've outlived their use.

There was a time when they were necessary during the Industrial Revolution, but not now.....not now at all.......

 

...I bought a new Civic in '88....along with the '66 Beetle I owned back in the 70's, those two were probably the best all-around cars I've ever owned.

 

Ah the VW Beetle and Bugs. My old Man bought us Kids a 63 VW, to drive to school. He had rebuilt the engine, et al. Put a Porsche Muffler, and Kit in the Engine, the thing ran like a bat out of hell, did well in the desert sands to, and...........would chirp in the 1st two gears....

I loved doing power slides with that beetle...Probably the most fun I've had in any and all of the vehicles, I've owned, by far......the 69 Mustang Hi-Performance Fast Back was a kick in the ass, with its 390 engine bored out .004. That was a effing Monster of a car, belonged on Willow Springs race track more than the streets.

The beetle was more of a blast to drive.....NTM-it got great gas mileage. However on those Frost Cold Freezing Morns, it would take 10-15 minutes of warming the engine up, just to get a little warm air out of those small slots of heater vents.....what a trip...!

 

My first car was a '65 Corvair Corsa, Burgandy with White Interior, 140 HP pancake six. Very good looking car and upon getting it up to Massachusetts found the heating system and snow traction of the car better than what a VW Bug could provide. Buddy of mine who hated American Cars had his TR-3 in the shop asked me for a ride to pick it up. Showed him how the Vair would boogie down the back roads and he freaked out. Loved that car, too bad GM ran away and did not defend the car.

 

I had a friend who had one of those...it had the gear shift lever sticking out of the dash...pretty cool car actually. But yeah, Ralph Nader killed that car.