FORD F150 SVT lightning worlds best selling car

[Falcman0o7]

Yeh thats right! Just seen it on top gear. The yanks sell 1 million a year in north america, 130 an hour. Supercharged 5.4 380 hp. They say the pickup itself is crap! Poor build quality and no safety tests as they class it as a work bus.
So that makes me think? the VE outsells the FG but that doesn't mean it's any good! LOL

[NAFairlane]

thats pretty old but its still true, the F-150 is the worlds best selling car As for the VE vs FG thing, it all depends how narrow minded people are

[Iggypoppin']

Pfftt, those trucks are great, dunno what they're on about??

[mrghia]

i think that show was from 2005?

[jpd80]

Originally Posted by Falcman0o7

Yeh thats right! Just seen it on top gear. The yanks sell 1 million a year in north america, 130 an hour. Supercharged 5.4 380 hp. They say the pickup itself is crap! Poor build quality and no safety tests as they class it as a work bus.
So that makes me think? the VE outsells the FG but that doesn't mean it's any good! LOL

Very, very out of date I'm afraid...

Llast year F truck figures were down to 430,000 but this year they will be back up over 500,000.
They havent sold the Lightening for a while a lot of the big heavy lifestyle trucks went away
with $4.00/gallon fuel back in 2006 and F truck sales collapsed because of it.
At the moment, F150 makes up about half of F truck sales, the real money is in the Super Duty Range
which has been responsible for 80% of this year's increases in the Heavy Duty truck market.

[chevypower]

Yeah sales figures are outdated. Also, the Lightning has not been available for quite some time. SVT Raptor is the new one. The whole F-series range is still Ford's best seller (as a whole) in North America. But nobody is selling cars at the rate they used to be.

[SVTVNM]

I remember watching that episode, the company that did the RHD drive conversion should be ashamed of themselves it was apauling, bits were hanging off it everywere. I thought a bit harsh to ctiticise a cars build quality. when it's been butchered by someone else

[Powdered Toast Man]

I was thinking the same thing as you SVTNM. When Clarkson commented about the slop in th steering I was thinking thats the poor RHD conversion, not an issue with the build quality of the truck out of the US.

[Falcman0o7]

Sorry guys i didn't know the episode was so old! LOL!

[sly_ba]

also gaps in the plastic dash were picked on...again I think this had a lot to do with the conversion

[ebxr8240]

They are alittle sloppy but what would Clarkson know ???

[aussie muscle]

Originally Posted by chevypower

SVT Raptor is the new one.

do they even sell them down here? given our high numbers of rednecks and bogans surely they'd sell a fair number of them here as well.

[LukeGT]

Originally Posted by SVTVNM

I remember watching that episode, the company that did the RHD drive conversion should be ashamed of themselves it was apauling, bits were hanging off it everywere. I thought a bit harsh to ctiticise a cars build quality. when it's been butchered by someone else

A good mate of mine worked for a company in Campbelfield converting these to RHD ... heard a lot of stories, but yeah focus definately seems to be on cost rather than quality. Main thing I picked up is that mistakes were not fixed properly, but butchered. Also a very long wait time to get a truck converted.

[Josh_XC]

In saying that did anyone see the new US top gear where Tanner Foust was driving the new ford Rapter, it was insane, got that thing can take some punishment.

[fou_bleu]

Yes - the Raptor is epic! Could easily have one in a heartbeat!