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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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Ford Power Stroke wins Ward’s diesel shootout

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Filed under: Car Buying , Truck , Work , Dodge , Ford , GMC 2011 Ford Super Duty – Click above for high-res image gallery Wards Auto has crowned its king of the 2011 diesel pickup engine crowd. The editors pitted the mills in the 2011 Dodge Ram HD , Ford Super Duty and the GMC Sierra Denali HD against each other in one epic battle royale at the Robert Bosch LLC test track, and while each of the three oil-burners did a smart job of hauling payloads and the like, Wards clearly favored one above the rest. The publication said that the powerhouse 6.7-liter turbocharged V8 in the Super Duty was the clear winner, despite being the most expensive of the three engines.

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Super Duty’s Power Stroke diesel gets 800 lb-ft of torque reflash

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Filed under: Truck , Ford , Diesel 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty – Click above for high-res image gallery We don’t remember feeling at all disappointed when Ford released power figures for its new 6.7-liter Power Stroke diesel engine available in the 2011 Super Duty . After all, who’s going to argue with 390 horsepower and 735 pound-feet of torque? Then General Motors published power figures for its new 6.6-liter Duramax Diesel of 397 ponies and 765 stump-pulling lb-ft of twist. Oh snap! That left Ford on the shallow end of the power pool, but engineers were secretly working on a flash update for its in-house oil burner

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Autoblog Podcast #189 – Flex sunsetting, NHTSA stars, saleable Sebrings and a cruise in the Cruze

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Filed under: Podcasts , Government/Legal , Chevrolet , Chrysler , Ford , Hyundai , Lincoln , Rumormill Click above for the Autoblog Podcast in iTunes, RSS or listen now! Chris Shunk, Sam Abuelsamid and Dan Roth are back for Episode #188 of the Autoblog Podcast. Topics this time around include rumors of a Ford Flex/Lincoln MKT phase-out after 2013, changes to the way NHTSA crash rating scores are given, patent images that could be the next Chrysler Sebring and the Chevrolet Cruze. Your feedback is incorporated throughout this hour and twenty minute extravaganza, too.

http://www.autoblog.com/podcasts/08-03-10-autoblog-E189.mp3

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Official: Ford 6.7-liter PowerStroke gets 800 lb-ft as of next week, upgrades available

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Filed under: Truck , Work , Ford , GM , Diesel 2011 Ford Super Duty pickup – Click above for high-res image gallery Ford has made it official: beginning with next week’s production, the 6.7-liter PowerStroke turbo diesel in the 2011 Ford Super Duty pickup will be upgraded to 400 horsepower and 800 pound-feet of torque. That’s a bump of 10 hp and a jump of 65 lb-ft, enough to leapfrog General Motors ‘ 6.6-liter Duramax by 3 hp and 35 lb-ft. Or, to put more bluntly, enough to run over the Duramax on its way to the top of the heavy duty engine heap.

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Rumormill: Ford’s Power Stroke diesel getting power increase to beat GM Duramax

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Filed under: Truck , Chevrolet , Ford , GMC , Rumormill 2011 Ford Super Duty – Click above for high-res image gallery Volatile gas prices and increasingly stiff emissions standards were supposed to kill the auto industry’s horsepower wars, or so we thought feared. Recent news out of the General Motors and Ford camps appears to prove otherwise. The second act in the battle for power supremacy took a turn for the better last November when The Blue Oval announced that the 2011 Mustang would receive a 305-horsepower 3.7-liter V6 powertrain ; a hair more punch than the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro V6′s 304-hp output. But what’s one extra horse between neighbors, right

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