Ford Motor Company has introduced its new battery electric F150 pickup truck for a price that I've been unable to ascertain but which is doubtless stratospheric. Nice looking but rather too much like a conventional gas/diesel monster for my taste. It even has decorative grillwork. Like building early autos to look like carriages? Shown pulling an Airstream no less. There being no actual engine there's a cargo compartment in the front called (shudder) the "frunk". Frunk as in "I am in a blue frunk" over the creation of a really stupid sounding word? VW all throughout its air cooled hippy days never resorted to anything this awful yet every VW of the era had what Ford would now call a "frunk". Is this really necessary?
My son put a deposit on one immediately. They've been putting off the actual delivery date, but it looks like they'll start delivering it soon. I didn't ask, but I didn't get the impression it was all that pricey. NB: The Ford F-150 is the best-selling passenger vehicle in America and has been for quite awhile. I have no idea why.
They've also started selling the Ford Maverick this year, which looks like a competitor to the Toyota Tacoma and is reasonably priced, gets good mileage, and is getting good reviews. I'd much rather that that an F-150. And apparently so would a lot of other people: https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/2022-ford-maverick-hybrid-production-sold-out/ar-AARwG2M
Ford's advertisement touts the F150 Lightning as a tow vehicle. Um . I dunno. How FAR could it tow my Airstream Bambi and how LONG would it need to charge after doing so?