2015 Ford F-150 FX4: - Reviews This review begins with a car, a broken car, a broken little ungrateful wretch four wheels to in work t...
This review begins with a car, a broken car, a broken little ungrateful wretch four wheels to in work to which I fell too much money and too much hair pulled, as I will never recover.
My stupid, silly Mazda Miata has been out of service since, oh, last May, arrived by a faulty engine and, uh, another faulty engine. (The details are sordid: first was a smooth landing if anyone is keeping track, and the second, an oil pump failed Someday I will gather all my thoughts on this Misadventure Horrible in property transport and publishes the word eight thousand. screed ready miscreant to digest it.)
the Miata my obsessions. Sadly.
The third engine, as highlighted giggling colleagues, has got to be the charm. The warm glow of schadenfreude does not feel as good when you poor dumb bastard.
So when a 2015 Ford F-150 FX4 size, color, approximate power and towing capacity of USS Ronald Reagan CVN-76 showed on my driveway with whomp I called Chris Hayes, producer of special podcast the Podcast Hooniverse and we took the road towards 60 something miles to the east in Corona, California, Keegan Engineering, low-grandiose self-stylings of Mike Keegan, to release the fruits of my financial mess .
Make no doubt about it-the F-150 is still huge, and it feels great. Swearing overall nod to aerodynamics, its front end is square and bestial than your average product Electro-Motive Diesel. It eclipsed a 2015 Chevrolet Silverado Crew Cab, too long by 13 inches, largest of nearly two. And it certainly causes as: bulky, heavy, but never stuck. It might be all that aluminum. It might be that it can hit 60 miles per hour five point six seconds.
Our EcoBoosted Ford came with the V6 3.5-liter engine, pumping 365 horsepower and 420 torque flubs. It's a hell of a thing. The countdown to the red light? Freeway is crowded? I have to spend more before the end of the ramp? Get on the gas and watch the nose up as a coating Red October, followed by the immediate and calamitous moving anything in the cargo bed. There is a hint of turbo lag, but the truck plunges you back harder than the V8, I think, because turbocharger. And if the windows are down, the smallest prod of the accelerator demonstrates a steady breath "as it is a turbodiesel," Hayes said.
At one point, I lined up at a red light next to a Ferrari F430, also gray, Enzo phantom cry all "vaffanculo" through time and space, and floored it. Then I felt bad. You drive a flashy car like this, everyone from trying to run you in all kinds of inappropriate equipment.
Yet I could have had.
Mike Keegan hoists the new engine at the rear of the F-150.
Chris and I recorded an episode of the Podcast Hooniverse hour drive from Corona, you can listen to here, and we could because the F-150's quiet death. silent mausoleum. What would be a cliché if it is a form.
We pulled into any area of two-storey homes, washed in various tans and beiges. A sweet bald bear of a man, Keegan met us in the driveway of his house modest suburb, next to a flat white Falcon sedan and his wife's in front of a garage that held untold projects and occasional treasures. It was quiet here, he said, and cheaper than Irvine, where he used to run its operations. Hayes and Keegan talked shop, exchanged handshakes, business cards. Formed by Cosworth, known throughout Champ Car Keegan built especially money moot project Miata Edmunds and racing cars engines for 949 Racing, which led them to victory at Thunderhill, which certainly counts for something. Now he works on diesel. We asked him if we could do it on the Hoonvierse podcast, and he smiled wistfully and shook his head. "Too shy," he said.
He was wrapped in plastic and attached to a pallet. We raised with a crane and driven neatly in bed, nearly complete width. The F-150, especially with his FX4 off-road package, is so great that the tailgate step flip-out is the only thing between you and your hamstrings inevitable hernia. He slides with KA-CHUNK with cane yellow-knobbed matching pimp up and stepping down from the bed even gives man manliest the face of a prom queen descending a crystal staircase.
The combination probably weighed 330 pounds, according to a snotty Miata.net member. I do not trust the forums. After spreading my fair share of pathos to strips of the same mind, I found myself reaffirmed with the inevitable flood of condescension and bad advice, I was like a runaway vulnerable, in search of support, sympathy, remembering I deserved it. From now on, I promised myself, I was watching from afar, research and learning. We shook hands with Keegan, slammed the back door, and reassembled in the long drive back to Los Angeles.
The most useful innovation for pickup trucks from the V8 engine.
any charge engine, we left for the long journey through the traffic.
progress in the world of truck advance so quickly that FX4 Off-Road edition is quiet, comfortable and serene. The ride is excellent. Let no one tell you that leather is the alpha, omega-consumer vouchers lugg jury: cloth seats are firm, not too grippy, and certainly easy to clean. Front: gen-you-wine audio and climate buttons glove-friendly, self-explanatory. At the rear legs is so that it could serve an apartment bedroom. The doors, however, slam with a shocking flimsiness, never with heavy insurance justifies the purchase of a new big truck.
buttons Gen-you-wine and buttons!
is a turbo, so it must be effective, right? Well, Chris and I went to his home in Redondo Beach to downtown Los Angeles in Corona, where winter rains have made the surprising Chino Hills until green-grabbed the engine, drove to the San Fernando valley, another 75 miles before finally completed until the conclusion of 13.2 miles per gallon. After two days around the city and half a tank, the computer's display shows something like 16 mpg. Ford expects 17 mpg city, 23 mpg on the highway, with our engine and 4 × 4 transmission, for recording.
John from Tripoint Engineering and Chris Hayes unload the engine.
And so. A truck is the easiest gadget in the world to justify: you will not use every day, but on the days you do, it is also essential that your next breath. That's why Ford sells so. That's why so many people headed to the suburbs, where the mulch flows like gold tailings. Few consumer goods in all of human civilization been sharpened to a knife blade, while remaining firmly traditionalist; in a sense, the F-150 makes up for its bold new aluminum experience by increasing its size boldly, out-weighing his Chevy and Ram brothers. The result is superb in its effectiveness.
Last year, when my Miata erupted for first , I climbed to the house along the central valley with a Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD. It was towing anything my first time. United with his Ford rival, through time and space and weight classes, a fixed point singular broken car, I learned that modern transport truck has no right to be this comfortable, this sweetness, this easy-naw, make the city boys work for it! Make 'em sweat a lil bit!
The new engine firmly in the hands of competent mechanics, let me say that I enjoyed my time with the F-150, but I hope I never have to drive another truck, in a forgotten corner of California, another roadster rescue mission.
Easier to maintain the engine and drive away from it.
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