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When you wish to appearance the apple a new fuel-sipping baby car, you acknowledge it to the columnist at a car show. If you wish to appearance the apple a new aggressive super-duty auto truck, you acknowledge it to Texans. At the State Fair.

Autoblog reports, “Following a brace archetypal years afterwards the redesigned F-150, Ford has taken the wraps off the new 2011 Super Duty archetypal at the Texas State Fair.” The barter makes no affliction for what it is. “The new exoteric architecture of the 2011 Super Duty aswell takes the better of Ford trucks in a new administration with the boldest foreground end yet that appears abundant added chip with the cab and bed than antecedent models. Vertically ample headlights anatomy a new grille that sports two big accumbent confined and a Ford logo ample abundant to apprehend from a mile away.”

Mechanically, Motor Trend reports, “An all-new agent engine will accomplish its debut, and it was designed, engineered, tested, and congenital by Ford. It’s a 6.7-liter Ability Stroke V-8, with a compacted graphite adamant engine block instead of gray casting iron. CGI is a stronger material, one that Ford has auspiciously acclimated in added markets and is implementing actuality for the aboriginal time.” The actual makes the new engine lighter than the 6.4-liter comminute it replaces, even admitting this one, Ford says, offers added power. They will not say absolutely how abundant added ability – application abstracts will arise later. New fuel-injection technology “helped Ford engineers abundantly abate archetypal agent engine noise, and this engine is acutely quieter than its predecessor.” Those who adopt gas to agent can acquire amid a 6.8-liter V10 or a new 6.2-liter V8.

PickupTrucks.com reports, “All three engines will be commutual with Ford’s all-new 6R140 able TorqShift six-speed automated manual that promises avant-garde about-face strategies and ability ascent features. Ford has abominably bare a six-speed automated manual for its agent HD pickups to attempt with Dodge’s 68RFE and GM’s Allison T1000 six-speed automatics.” This one “will acquiesce the disciplinarian to manually about-face up or down on appeal and authority specific gears, as continued as the engine doesn’t beat redline” – something that should anticipate the gear-hunting on continued descents that wears out the transmissions of so abounding big haulers.

All of that ability has a purpose. Jalopnik notes, “The 2011 Super Duty appearance added towing and burden capability, extending its best-in-class rating, and aswell alms added towing from central the bed. New is the first-ever factory-installed fifth caster with acceptable gooseneck basement anon absorbed to the frame. All this agency the Super Duty F-450 auto maintains its class-leading gross accumulated weight appraisement of 33,000 pounds.”

It should be a added adequate ride as well. Motor Trend reports, “Suspension has been adapted to advance ride, and according to the engineers at Ford, there will now be beneath of a aberration in loaded/unloaded ride.”

Inside, PickupTrucks.com notes, “It borrows the seats from the F-150, convalescent the old six-way ability adjustable chairs to 10-way units with heaters and coolers in the Lariat and King Ranch models.” The Cabela’s copy has been dropped, but its accumulator compartments are now accepted on every Super Duty, and “There’s a new advice affectation in the apparatus array that can appearance the truck’s attitude off-road as able-bodied as the council position,” as able-bodied as bivouac data.

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