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Last Auto Account – Ford Highlights Four Customized F-150s At SEMA Harking aback to a sunnier, happier time if knobby-tired, lift-kit-equipped trucks, custom vans, and bellowing Jeeps roamed American highways en masse, Ford brings three 2009 F-150 homesickness machines to SEMA to advice clean abroad the bazaar blues. For these fantasy trucks, Ford broke toolmaker DEWALT, accent authority X’Treme Toyz, ..Last Auto account –

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Harking aback to a sunnier, happier time if knobby-tired, lift-kit-equipped trucks, custom vans, and bellowing Jeeps roamed American highways en masse, Ford brings three 2009 F-150 homesickness machines to SEMA to advice clean abroad the bazaar blues. For these fantasy trucks, Ford broke toolmaker DEWALT, accent authority X’Treme Toyz, and blingmasters Street Scene Equipment to present admirers with some boxy trucks that assume aloof with ammunition prices and the acceleration of frugal transportation. The fourth vehicle, the Hi-Pa Drive F-150, seems a bit of a acknowledgment to the times and eschews centralized agitation altogether for four in-wheel electric motors to actuate it down the road.

The 2009 Ford F-150 Heavy Duty DEWALT Contractor Abstraction is put alternating as “the ultimate boxy barter for any job site.” It touts appearance that should access abundance and advice contractors accomplish their “peak performance,” items like a apparatus administration account arrangement (Tool Link), Customized On Board Storage (not explained), and added $.25 and pieces that affiance that this barter will be a “rolling plan shop.”

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Next up is the Ford F-150 FX-4 by X-Treme Toyz, built, they say, for “hard plan or asperous play.” X-Treme Toyz’ Mike Duval brand to accredit to the conception as the “Fahrenheit F-150,” and Ford affirmation that it is a “highly anatomic fun machine” that is “totally tricked out for the alive affairs enthusiast.” Tricked out = “hot flame” exoteric graphics, a 9,000 lb. winch at both foreground and rear, a bike rack, and a bedslide sliding burden drawer with toolbox, tire, and compressor.

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The third in this leash of alluringly capricious trucks is the 2009 Ford F-150 by Street Scene Equipment. Based on the 2009 F-150 Lariat SuperCrew, they affirmation it combines “Built Ford Tough” achievement with abrupt amounts of abundance and luxury. They don’t absolutely acquaint us abundant about what Street Scene did to the F-150, but instead abundant acclaim on the concept’s appearance with phrases like “the absolute aggregate of head-turning appearance and boxy performance.” They achieve tht the F-150 by Street Scene “will get you noticed and get you there in abundance and luxury.” But is that absolutely abundant in 2008?

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Well, the blooming association at Ford allegedly had their way with Ford’s fourth F-150 concept, the Hi-Pa Drive F-150, and the alone absolutely mechanically noteworthy car in the SEMA F-150 quartet. Dispensing with engine, drivetrain, and gearbox, this F-150 relies alone on four in-wheel electric motors to move this zero-emissions barter down the alley (a drive abstraction that could aswell be ablaze off-road). And with in balance of 600 hp and added torque than the V-8 it replaces, it should accept no botheration alarming by adjournment hybrids like its own Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner Hybrid twins. But just how abounding 220-volt outlets would you charge to re-charge this beast? Better install a additional ambit breaker just for the garage.–Colin Mathews