It’s been a long time since the Blue Oval first showed the new F-150. Finally, after way too many months of waiting since the North American Auto Show, the first batch of the thirteenth generation F-Series light-duty truck is, as we speak, in transit to US dealers.
After eight weeks of retooling the Rouge Center, the American manufacturer started mass-producing the 2015 F-150. As a brief reminder of how much weight the new light-duty pickup carries on its shoulders, this is the first ever vehicle of its kind to use mainly aluminum for both its body and bed.
Slated to go on sale in December, the 2015 Ford F-150 will eventually be available in 90 markets by the end of next year. Not bad considering this nameplate is the same age as Truman’s Marshall Plan, as well as America’s best-selling truck for 37 consecutive years and best-selling vehicle for 32 consecutive years.
Ford is keeping quiet about demand, namely how many people have ordered one to this moment, but the Blue Oval does highlight that 225,000 people submitted their contact information for updates about the light-duty truck. To boot, more than 250,000 customers have built their own 2015 F-150 online.
Supporting the production debut of the new F-150, Ford added 850 new workers to its Dearborn Truck, Diversified and Stamping facilities in Michigan, workers that join more than 4,000 existing team members. Priced from $25,420 for the entry-level XL variant, the new truck comes in many shapes and sizes, and it’s a customizing trap if you go overboard considering the Platinum starts from $50,960.
You can read autoevolution’s review of the 2015 Ford F-150 in XLT and King Ranch guise over here.
After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well. Full profile
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