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Car reviewers acquire gotten abaft the caster of the new 2011 Ford Super Assignment trucks — and the reviews are good.

PickupTrucks.com writes, “At this moment, there’s no agnosticism that Ford has already afresh aloft the bar to new levels of achievement and abundance for able pickups. The Super Assignment continues to be the accepted adjoin which its antagonism will be measured”

Autoblog credibility out that the new Super Assignment trucks aren’t afterwards some annealed competition: “If what you do requires a apparatus shaped like a truck, again you’re currently experiencing a nirvana-like aeon in history. In just the endure few months, Chrysler and Accepted Motors alien their new able trucks. We collection the 2010 Dodge Ram Abundant Assignment in October and admired it. We aswell saw the Chevrolet and GMC HDs at the Chicago Auto Appearance endure month.” Still, they conclude, “If this were the 1990s and ammunition were cheaper than bottled water, some humans ability be tempted to buy a new Super Assignment to be their driveway truck. It’s absolutely adequate abundant to be apprenticed every day, even if your destination isn’t a quarry, branch or architecture site. But ammunition isn’t that bargain anymore.”

Autoweek agrees: “This is not a rig for poseurs. It is for austere haulers and architecture only,” but “If you reside out in the country and absolutely charge to booty stuff, this is your wagon. … Ford sells added Super Assignment trucks than any competitor’s sales, and afterwards a day aggravating out all address of these abundant haulers, we can see why.”

PickupTrucks.com gives the briefing on what’s new for 2011, adage the “most cogent changes cover two new gasoline and agent engines and a new six-speed automated manual that’s acclimated for both versions. …Both engines acquire been engineered from scratch. The accepted 2-valve 6.2-liter V-8 gas engine develops 385 application (at 5,500 rpm) and 405 pounds-feet of torque (at 4,500 rpm), up from the old 5.4-liter gas V-8′s 300 hp and 365 pounds-feet.” However, the engines don’t stop there: “it’s the 4-valve 6.7-liter Ability Stroke V-8 agent engine that’s the angel of the powertrain lineup. It pumps 390 hp (at 2,800 rpm) and a amazing 735 pounds-feet (at 1,600 rpm). Roughly 60 percent of Super Assignment pickups are ordered with agent engines.

The 2011 Super Assignment comes to bazaar with added power, as able-bodied as beyond towing capacities. Autoblog reports, “The F-250 can tow up to 14,000 pounds, bisected a ton added than the accepted Dodge and GM HD models. The big F-450 can handle up to a 24,400-pound trailer. This is 4,400 pounds added than the abutting GM and about three bags added than the Dodge HD. The comparisons abide in Ford’s favor apropos payload. This seems all the added arresting accustomed that the Super Duty’s anatomy is about a aftereffect piece. Engineers acquainted it was able abundant as it was. “

On the road, Autoweek calls the Super Assignment “Surprisingly quiet and comfortable. This is not your father’s 18-wheeler. At acceleration on bland pavement, you’ll feel like you’re active your accommodation architecture down the street. Whack a few bumps and the abeyance does a decidedly acceptable job of authoritative the 1,300 pounds to 1,500 pounds of unsprung weight beneath there.”

Autoblog notes, “The autogenous accustomed some attention, but annihilation abutting to a abounding redesign. The Super Duty’s autogenous looks like it’s abundant duty, and carries over the high-quality materials, finishes and accepted action that afflicted us on the antecedent generation.”

The 2011 Ford F-Series Super Assignment Pickups will ability dealerships this spring.

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