12 fun facts about the Ford F-150! | McLarty Daniel Ford

We sell a heck of a lot of Ford F-series trucks here at McLarty Daniel Ford, from the sporty capability of the 2018 Ford F-150 4×4, to the take-no-prisoners horsepower of the 2018 Ford F-150 Raptor, to the workhorse durability of Ford’s Super Duty models and beyond. Still, we’ve got a soft spot in our hearts for good ol’ Ford F-150, and we’re especially impressed with the 2018 Ford F-150 in particular. It’s just packed with high technology, design and engineering details that are second to none.

As F-150 freaks, we’re always running across some new tidbit of information about the F-series trucks that amazes us. With that in mind, we’ve put together a list of twelve bits of cool trivia about the Ford F-series trucks. Let’s call it: McLarty Daniel Ford’s Believe It or Not! You can definitely believe this though: if you’re looking to buy a 2018 Ford F-150 in Bentonville, Arkansas at a great price, your first, last and only stop should be McLarty Daniel Ford. Stop in today for a test drive. or shop our big selection of 2018 Ford F-150’s online right now. Lighter, stronger, tougher and more fuel efficient than ever before, the 2018 Ford F-150 really is the best truck Ford has ever built. Now, read on for a dozen fabulous, fun, freaky facts about the Ford F-150!

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1. The Ford F-series truck, now called the F-150, has been the best-selling truck in America for more than 40 years, and the best selling vehicle of any kind in the United States for over 30 years.
2. As of May 2018, Ford reportedly makes $100 million PER DAY from F-series truck sales alone.
3. The most expensive F-150 in the world is Hennessey Motorsports’ F-150 VelociRaptor 6×6, which starts at $349,000. Based on a 2017-2018 Ford F-150 Raptor crew cab pickup, the six-wheeled, six-wheel-drive truck is an exercise in ridiculous excess, featuring a stretched frame and bed, elongated fender flares, and twin turbochargers that boost performance to 600+ horsepower.
4. The Dearborn Truck Assembly Plant in Dearborn, Mich turns out a new Ford F-150 every 52 seconds. That’s over 30,000 trucks a month!
5. In 2017, Ford sold 1,052,658 F-Series trucks. If lined up bumper to bumper, they’d stretch over 4,000 miles! That’s all the way from New York to Los Angeles and most of the way back again.
6. The longest-running component ever used in Ford F-series trucks were the rear fenders on the narrow-box “stepside” bed, which were used virtually unchanged on all stepside models from 1953 through 1979.
7. In August 2003, the Guinness Book of World Records bestowed the title of “World’s Fastest Production Pickup” on a stock 2003 Ford SVT F-150 Lightning which reached a top speed of 147 miles per hour on Ford’s Arizona test track. That’s almost glacial, however, compared to a modified, turbocharged 2002 Ford F-150 Lightning that topped 178.8 miles per hour at the “Texas Mile” racing event in October 2016. That apparently makes it the fastest F-150 in the world. (Seriously: don’t try this at home. You will die.)
8. Though he was a billionaire several times over by the time he passed away in 1992, Walmart founder Sam Walton bought a 1979 Ford F-150 long wheelbase truck brand new — from the dealership that is now McLarty Daniel Ford in Bentonville! — and drove it almost every day until his death.
9. When asked once by an interviewer why he drove a beat up 1979 Ford F-150 long after he became the world’s richest man, Walton famously answered: “What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?” Sam’s F-150 is now on display at the Walmart Museum in Bentonville, and has even been replicated as a die-cast car in Mattel’s Hot Wheels line.
10. Thanks to the use of space age aluminum alloy in the body panels and other components, the 2018 Ford F-150 weighs a full 700 pounds less than the previous model.
11. After F-150 production was shut down due to a May 2018 fire at a supplier of critical parts, Ford was able to get the assembly lines started again by flying 87,000 pounds of equipment to a factory in England on one of the world’s biggest cargo planes: the Russian Antonov An-124, which has a lifting capacity of 150 tons and a wingspan of 240.5 feet. That’s wider than two Boeing 737s parked wingtip to wingtip.
12. In 2016, engineers with Ford Performance entered a stock, street-legal 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor in the grueling Baja 1000 race, which destroys many purpose-built race trucks. After finishing third in the stock class, they literally gassed it up, ran it through a carwash, then drove more than 400 miles back to Ford’s testing center in Phoenix, Arizona with the cruise control and air conditioner on.

With Ford F-series trucks having been around since the 1940s, we’re always learning some new and interesting fact about America’s favorite pickup, the Ford F-150! If you’re looking to buy a new 2018 Ford F-150, stop in at McLarty Daniel Ford for a test drive today, or browse our big selection of Ford F-150 models online. There’s a lot of great things to know about these trucks, and a lot of great reasons why they’ve been the best selling vehicle in America for over three decades. Come see us at McLarty Daniel Ford, and let us show you why.

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