Every new vehicle has to take hardcore durability tests before it makes its way to the dealers. However, what the Blue Oval did with the all-new 2015 F-150 pickup truck beggars belief. From mountaintops to frozen lakes, the latest F-150 was put through its paces in the most harsh conditions imaginable to find out if it can live up to Built Ford Tough standards.
Ford says that before the first all-new F-150 rolls off the assembly line, the model will have been subjected to 10 million miles of combined real-world and simulated durability testing. “We wanted to build the toughest, most capable F-150, while making it as much as 700 pounds lighter,” said Pete Reyes, Ford F-150 chief engineer. “We challenged the team to torture the truck harder than any F-150 before it.”
The pickup truck has been through hundreds of torture tests already, including trailer towing over mountain passes in temperatures exceeding 120 degrees, withstanding the frame-punishing terrain of difficult off-road courses and conquering a frozen lake at minus 40 degrees. Some Ford tests are so extreme that a five-day period equals 10 years or 150,000 miles of abuse by the roughest customers.
We're pretty sure you're curious what are the harshest tests the aluminum alloy body 2015 F-150 pickup truck has been through, so here's a few of those tests below:
#1 - Seven-channel input test: Ford built a special torture rack that violently twists and shakes the truck seven ways – simultaneously – for five days, simulating the equivalent of 225,000 miles.
#2 - Silver Creek durability course test: Test drivers beg off this route after one pass because the pounding and speed is so intense.
#3 - Power Hop Hill washboard track test: It was created to replicate a steep, off-road dirt trail in the Hualapai Mountains of northwest Arizona.
The pickup truck has been through hundreds of torture tests already, including trailer towing over mountain passes in temperatures exceeding 120 degrees, withstanding the frame-punishing terrain of difficult off-road courses and conquering a frozen lake at minus 40 degrees. Some Ford tests are so extreme that a five-day period equals 10 years or 150,000 miles of abuse by the roughest customers.
We're pretty sure you're curious what are the harshest tests the aluminum alloy body 2015 F-150 pickup truck has been through, so here's a few of those tests below:
#1 - Seven-channel input test: Ford built a special torture rack that violently twists and shakes the truck seven ways – simultaneously – for five days, simulating the equivalent of 225,000 miles.
#2 - Silver Creek durability course test: Test drivers beg off this route after one pass because the pounding and speed is so intense.
#3 - Power Hop Hill washboard track test: It was created to replicate a steep, off-road dirt trail in the Hualapai Mountains of northwest Arizona.