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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. Image: Town and Country Ford via Facebook] Become a& TTAC insider.

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Flash Mob: Ford Introduces F-150 Lightning Flash

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Ford announced this morning a new trim for their all-electric pickup truck. It has an extended range (320-mile) battery, popular equipment, and a price tag right at $70,000.& Though if Ford is going down this road, they better be prepared to also add the Lightning Strikes and Lightning Rod trims to its roster.

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Ashwoods Launches Hybrid Drive Retrofit Kit for Light Vans and Stop-Start Retrofit Kit

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UK-based Ashwoods Automotive , a provider of hybrid-electric vans and hybrid drive systems, is offering a hybrid drive retrofit kit for panel vans. Ashwoods says that its Stop/Start Module is suitable for most light commercial vehicles, including panel vans such as the Ford Transit and car-derived vans like the Vauxhall Combo.

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Jeep Gifts Wrangler Updates to Gladiator

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Power 12-way seats are also on the docket, and Jeep engineers insist they can weather the Gladiator’s nearly three feet of water fording capability without fritzing into oblivion. Side curtain airbags are now onboard in case things go all pear-shaped, a feature scarcely believable in a Wrangler just a few short years ago. Very good, then.

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Ford Investing $550M to Retool SUV Plant to Produce Focus Small Car and EV

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Ford Motor Company is investing $550 million to transform its Michigan Assembly Plant into a flexible manufacturing complex that will build Ford’s next-generation Focus global small car along with a new battery-electric version of the Focus for the North American market. Mark Fields, Ford president of The Americas. Earlier post.)

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ROUSH Developing Two Propane-Fueled Mustang Drag Cars

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The drag cars are an offshoot of the kits that ROUSH Performance uses to convert gasoline-powered Ford pickups and vans to run on propane. Both cars will use an all-aluminum 5.4L, V-8 Ford engine that was originally designed for the Ford GT supercar. Tags: Brief.

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ALTe Developing Series Plug-in Hybrid Powertrains for Conversion and OEM Applications

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Thomas said that ALTe is building a robustly engineered, professional quality, mass production powertrain conversion kit assembly operation and plans to produce up to 90,000 powertrains per year. The company will deliver these powertrain kits to a dealer network to be established. Tags: Conversions Hybrids Plug-ins.