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Infographic: Ford Super Duty shows off market share in the workplace

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Filed under: Truck , Marketing/Advertising , Work , Ford Use your truck for work? Chances are good, according to Ford , that truck is an F-Series Super Duty proudly wearing a Blue Oval on the massive front grille. Perhaps that shouldn’t come as too big a surprise, considering that Ford has sold 4.1 million Super Duty pickups since 1998, which, Ford is happy to point out, is enough trucks to wrap around all 16,000 miles of the Australian coast.

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SEMA: Matchbox 2011 Ford F-350 Super Duty by Superlift suspensions is one hot fire truck

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Filed under: Aftermarket , SEMA Show , Truck , Work , Ford , Police/Emergency We have little interest in running into burning buildings, but we can imagine being a firefighter has its perks. For starters, those guys and girls get the chance to pilot some seriously incredible machinery. Superlift, Matchbox and Ford got together to create what could very possibly be the world’s most bad-ass brush truck using a 2011 F-350 Super Duty as the base chassis. The truck wears an astonishing 10-inch lift and 41-inch Interko IROK tires

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Official: Plug-in hybrid Ford F-Series Super Duty trucks coming in 2013

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Filed under: Hybrid , Truck , Technology , Work , Ford , Diesel Azure Dynamics has signed an agreement with Ford , whereby the Oak Park, MI firm will integrate its plug-in hybrid technology into Ford’s F-Series Super Duty trucks. Working in collaboration with Ford, Azure’s plug-in hybrid technology will debut on the F-550 Super Duty chassis cab in early 2013. This agreement also allows for Azure to perform plug-in hybrid powertrain conversions on all available configurations of Ford’s F-350 and F-450 trucks. Azure says that roughly two-thirds of its plug-in hybrid system will be applicable for all Super Duty configurations, with approximately one-third needing to be powertrain-specific (i.e

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Report: Ford targeting up to 700-pound weight loss across lineup

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Filed under: SUV , Truck , Ford With stricter 2012-2016 fuel economy standards quickly creeping up on automakers, research and development departments industry-wide are looking for innovative technologies to improve fuel economy and reduce CO2 emissions. But while hybrids and electric vehicles provide the largest wow factor, most powertrains in the near term will be of the internal combustion variety, so Ford is looking to shed pounds as well. TheDetroitBureau.com reports that Ford is looking to trim between 250 and 700 pounds from each of its vehicles by 2017 or 2018. That’s an impressive total given the fact that added safety measures and more technology have contributed to the bloated scale-breakers we have today, and an aluminum hood or high strength steel can only make up some of that distance.

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Video: GM produces HD pickup truck comparison tests

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Filed under: Truck , Videos , Chevrolet , Dodge , Ford , Diesel Chevy Silverado HD Truck Shootout – Click above to watch the video after the break Back in the fall, our friends over at Pickuptrucks.com pitted the diesel-equipped Chevrolet Silverado HD against the oil-burning Ford Super Duty in a battle of high-altitude acceleration . Even though the Ford behemoth holds a slight edge in horsepower and torque, the Chevrolet beat the Blue Oval machine handily in the steep-grade acceleration challenge. We’d think General Motors would be satisfied with the results, but apparently The General needed to go a step further.

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