As much as I love comparing statistics and ooh-ing and ahh-ing over numbers, there’s really no better way to illustrate superiority than a direct comparison. Hennessey is great at making things fast; the 600 horsepower on the VelociRaptor is proof of that. That’s impressive, but it’s much more impressive when you can see exactly how far the [...] More »

In Ford’s continuing efforts towards greener production facilities, they looked at everything. From how trash is removed to transporting vehicles, nothing was spared from a more efficient makeover. Now, Ford is introducing LED lighting technology but it’s not on their new vehicles, it’s in their manufacturing plants. Ford has invested more than $25-million towards installing [...] More »

The Raptor SVT’s current performance darling, but before it they built another truck to fight a slightly different battle. That truck was the F-150 Lightning. Where the Raptor was built to be a road-going trophy truck, the lightning (as it’s name implies) was built for speed. Of course it wasn’t the only the game in [...] More »

It has been an up and down year for the EcoBoost in the Tudor United Sports Car Championships’ Prototype class. However, with a win at Lone Star Le Mans at the Circuit of the Americas and a third at the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, Ford brought home three wins and seven podiums in [...] More »

I remember one of my more exciting days developing transmission cooling systems at Ford. This happened at Ford’s Arizona Proving Ground, in Yucca, AZ. Not long after I left Ford in 2007 this facility was sold to Chrysler. I was working on a F-250 6.0L/TorqShift truck. On this day I had to run a test that was [...] More »

Well, the UAW will be smiling. Well, no, they never smile. However, they should be very happy with the news that Ford has not only met its goal of creating 12,000 hourly jobs in the U.S. by 2015 in 2014, but they have exceeded it. Total new job creation to date exceeds 14,000 and will [...] More »

For all of the die hard fans of the classic Ford trucks out there, prepare to close your eyes and to cringe as you watch this guy take his old ’73 Ford for a jump over the fence! Though maybe not the best thing to do to preserve a classic, the ’73 certainly looks good [...] More »