LAST AUTO NEWS – FORD F-150 WINS NORTH AMERICAN TRUCK OF THE YEAR
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The Ford F-150, the best affairs car in America for 27 years, threw yet addition accolade in its bed over the weekend. A board of 50 automotive journalists aggregate at the Detroit Auto Show called the newly-redesigned F-Series the North American Barter of the Year..
CNN Money explains, “The redesigned 2009 archetypal appearance the new, angular flat-nosed attending of Ford trucks. A new anatomy was advised with a lighter weight for bigger ammunition economy. The new F-150 aswell boasts assurance improvements. It won a Top Assurance Pick Accolade from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.”
Only trucks new or substantially-redesigned for the 2009 archetypal year were eligible. The F-150 exhausted the diesel-powered Mercedes-Benz ML320 Bluetec SUV and the all-new 2009 Dodge Ram for the award.
Both Ford and Dodge accept invested heavily in their new pickups, at a time if cash-strapped consumers accept angry abroad from fuel-thirsty trucks. High gas prices in 2008 and a recession in 2009 accept led abounding buyers out of the bazaar entirely, and chock-full a trend against affairs luxury-appointed trucks as ancestors vehicles. With pickups abiding to their roots as plan vehicles, the F-150′s best-in-class burden and towing accommodation accept won the new barter praise.
The cost is just the latest in an more continued account for this Ford. The F-Series was called Motor Trend’s Barter of the Year endure month.
Jalopnik comments, “It’s a well-made, adorable and able truck.” But, they ask “will getting called 2009 North American Barter of the Year construe into sales? There are apparently a few humans in Dearborn bridge their fingers it will.”
The automakers accept all opened 2009 with advancing amount discounts, acquisitive to atom an industry recovery. Research January’s Best Car Deals with U.S. News’ car Rankings and Reviews.
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