Ford's Mighty New F-450 Super Duty Truck Can Tow Over 15 Tonnes
What do you buy when a Ford F-150 just isn’t brawny enough? Try the new F-450’s 935lb ft peak torque figure for size.
The new Super Duty truck joins the lineup with an improved 6.7-litre Power Stroke diesel engine. Its eight long-stroke pistons produce 450bhp and comfortably more than double the peak torque of a Volkswagen Amarok V6 TDI. Muscle.
As well as the traditional 4x4 layout Ford will build the 2018 F-450 in a rear-wheel drive 4x2 configuration, using a lighter and more efficient drivetrain that frees up more towing potential. With the standard gooseneck trailer fitting, a ball hitch in the load bay of the truck that’s attached to the chassis, the rear-driven F-450 can haul over 15.4 tonnes (34,000lbs). That’s an entire fighter jet.
It’s thanks to a hefty steel box frame construction and a military-grade aluminium body, and makes the 4x2 F-450 the most powerful and most capable, in Ford’s words, Super Duty truck it has ever built.
Even without the special trailer hook-up it can tow 9.5 tonnes (21,000lbs) via a regular ball hitch, which would represent one hell of a caravan. Or a big ol’ boat. Alternatively, in the load bay itself you can stow some 3.3 tonnes, or 7360lbs. It’s fairly strong.
The Power Stroke diesel has been given redesigned, stronger cylinder heads along with new calibrations for the fuelling and turbo that take advantage of the updated heads’ extra capacity for power.
It will come in four trim grades: XL, XLT, Lariat and Platinum. Prices are reasonable by European standards, too. The entry point is $52,830, equivalent to £39,481. The cheapest VW Amarok V6 TDI is £31,753, rising to £38,731. The big Ford represents a serious amount of pulling power for your dollar.
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Still not enough to tow a challenger
Or bentley
Surprised you didn’t make a joke about Americans themselves. (By the way, I’m American; it’s friendly fire.)
“3,894 to 4,448 lbs” That’s not that heavy…
It’s a strong truck.
But most importantly, it’s vErY hUuUuUgE
I just like to see Chevy and Dodge beat that with the Silverado and the Ram, respectively.
I can’t wait for a Ram 4500
Next gen Ram with the new Cummins will easily top that
We will dw😂🔥
And anyways the Silverado 3500 can to 10 or 11.5 tons so they’ll definitely be as good if not better when the new trucks come out
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I mean if you need to tow that much, might as well order this bad boi
But that’s ugly lmfao
You can’t keep it in your garage. And you need a specific trailer. And a (currently imaginary) “Megacharger”.
Super Duty all the way!
Get something ugly as shit which costs twice as much? No thanks
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Haha Pffff
What’s with the weird engines? The 747’s engines are different.
It is more difficult to casually tow heavy loads on every condition rather than towing something huge for just few meters. If you continue to tow the plane with Touareg, it will break down catastrophically. I’m not disgracing the fact that Touareg is good, just accept the success of Ford too.
Towing a plane is so easy a human can do it. Look up Guiness world records for people pulling airplanes.
Holden in 1980s: pfft peasant
https://youtu.be/swQOF68UA84
Didn’t the Panamera do it faster?
inseet Koenigsegg meme
See friends, that’s America. Kinda pretty ain’t it
That depends, almost nothing that heavy and therefore big will fit on European roads without being to wide or to high to hit anything or need a special safety escort.
So it’s kindda nice, but keep the thing in America please!
All the numbers mean nothing when it’ll still leave you stranded.
True
Tows 5 more tons than this…
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