But I’ll always need my own cars, as I need to get to my office for the day job and I don’t always have media loaners upon which I can rely. When it comes down to it, however, I’m using whatever car arrives in my driveway that week as my primary driver: First, to properly evaluate it for you, dear reader, and secondly, to keep miles off the cars in my driveway. A touch of envy seeps into the conversation when I reveal that I’m driving a high-end luxury car or some powerful sportscar. Friends often will ask what I’m driving this week, rather than the usual small talk about the weather. I’m a car enthusiast, getting paid to go play with cars. I’m well aware that I’m remarkably privileged to do what I do here at TTAC. It’s here, it’s real, and we drove several examples last week in – where else? – Texas. With the F-150 Lightning, Ford is definitely *not* peddling vaporware. There’s no shortage of vaporware in the EV truck segment, with numerous Barnum-like companies making grandiose promises amounting to naught, taking the hopes and cash of others down along with them. Still, when the country’s best-selling vehicle – the image of which is so closely tied to America that it might as well have a baseball hat and an apple pie in its glovebox – is fitted with an entirely new method of powering its way down the freeway and around job sites, even the j-j-jaded TTAC team will sit up and take interest.Ĭompared to other efforts in the electric pickup truck space, such as ridiculously angular examples loudly and annoyingly defended by fanbois jihads groups of rabid admirers, the Ford F-150 Lightning actually exists in vast numbers and is actively being cranked out of a factory near Detroit. The words ‘all-new’ and ‘seismic shift’ are too frequently hurled around by those who peck their way around a keyboard between visits to shrimp-laden buffet tables.
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