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Ford Has Paused F-150 Lightning Shipments

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Ford has stopped shipments of the 2024 F-150 Lightning, but not because there isn’t demand for the electric truck. Reports stated that an earlier pause in January was due to a concern with supplier parts, which halted both gas and electric F-150 models.

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Tesla Cybertruck Deliveries Paused While Ford F-150 Lightning Deliveries Resume

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Following a nine-week hold on F-150 Lightning allocations to dealers, Ford has announced it will be resuming shipments. Despite stalling deliveries of the all-electric F-150 pickup, your author has noticed there still seemed to be a more-than-healthy number of trucks sitting around on nearby Ford lots.

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Ford Performance and RTR Created a Raptor-Like F-150 Lightning

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Ford has long offered beefy off-road variants of the F-Series pickup, but the electric F-150 Lightning’s introduction raised questions about how robust a non-internal-combustion truck could be in the dirt. and the also-Lightning-powered F-100 Eluminator.

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Ford Teases Next F-150, Full Reveal Tomorrow

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Pickup trucks often get the former, which is exactly what was deployed for a brief teaser video for the next F-150 which popped up on Instagram just one day before the entire thing is revealed in Detroit. Beats having to reform yaffles of bodywork and stamp out new fenders, anyway.

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Get Ford F-150 Raptor Power for Much Less Coin

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The Ford F-150 Raptor R is a seriously impressive truck with an equally serious price tag that puts it out of reach for most buyers. An Alabama Ford dealer has a solution , however, in the form of a base F-150 XL with a Roush supercharger and other upgrades.

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The Ford F-150 Raptor R is Even More Powerful in 2024

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The Ford F-150 Raptor is an impressive truck, but it spent a few sad years without a V8 option as the automaker opted for a less exciting but still powerful V6. That changed in recent years with the introduction of the new F-150 Raptor R, which sports a supercharged V8, and the truck is getting more power for 2024.

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Build & Price Appears for 2024 Ford F-150

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The build-and-price tool for the 2024 Ford F-150 is now live, meaning we can poke around in what Ford asserts is a streamlined ordering process in which the number of buildable combinations has been cut by 90 percent compared to last year. At its core, a base regular cab XL now starts at $36,570 which is up from $33,835.

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