2024 Ford F-150 positive aspects tailgate door, best-in-class energy for Raptor R

Ford wasn’t the primary to deliver the dual-action tailgate to marketplace, and even the second one, however it studied the contest and is taking a look to journey the tailgate wars generation additionally reasserting itself as the facility king.

On Tuesday, the 2024 Ford F-150 lineup debuted with a pristine usual powertrain, an up to date design, extra usual generation, a dual-action tailgate with a door, and a revised Raptor lineup with extra energy for the R type.

When the 2024 Ford F-150 arrives in sellers within the first quarter of 2024 it is going to get started at $38,565 together with $1,995 for vacation spot. The Raptor R will height the lineup at $111,550.

F-150 is going Platinum Plus, positive aspects tailgate door

The F-150 lineup as a complete shuffles with the Restricted type disappearing and a Platinum Plus type stepping in because the pristine top-spec truck. 3 cab types, 3 bend lengths, and extra configurations than you, or I, can rely will proceed to be introduced. 

Each F-150 options pristine headlights and rear lights, wider grilles, and pristine wheel designs. The sheetmetal carries over.

A pristine tailgate door, dubbed Professional Get entry to Tailgate, may also be opened with detents to prohibit it at 37-, 70-, or 100-degree angles to forbid hitting a trailer. It gets rid of the 2-foot succeed in over the tailgate, is situated over the bumper detent (which now doubles as a step), and allows fast get entry to to the mattress.

Ford has carved out a deposit compartment at the passenger facet of the mattress that may store paintings gloves, tow ropes, and extra. Vans with out the to be had energy retailers at the driving force facet gets a 2nd compartment. 

F-150 will get larger monitors

Each 2024 F-150 will detail a 12.0-inch virtual gauge mass and a 12.0-inch touchscreen. Wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto might be usual as will a 5G wi-fi modem having the ability to broadcast as much as 10 gadgets. The truck is able to receiving over-the-air instrument updates. Ford’s lie-flat entrance seats will now be not obligatory on Lariat and King Ranch fashions, and might be usual at the Platinum Plus.

Ford’s BlueCruise 1.2 hands-free driving force help machine {hardware} might be supplied on sure trims. Then the 90-day trial duration is up, homeowners will have the ability to turn on it on a per month or annual foundation.

F-150 Raptor upgrades injuries and tool output

Each F-150 Raptor will detail the styling updates implemented to the F-150 lineup, however it’s the undisclosed bits which can be probably the most attention-grabbing.

The Fox Reside Valve injuries with position-sensitive compression settings and lively damping stay usual for the off-road pickup. Pristine Fox Twin Reside Valve injuries might be to be had and upload variable rebound damping for higher frame regulate at the trauma’s downstroke.

Same old Raptors will proceed with the three.5-liter twin-turbo V-6 rated at 450 hp and 510 lb-ft of torque, however Raptor Rs and their 5.2-liter supercharged V-8 can have greater than the 700 hp and 640 lb-ft of torque, regardless that Ford gained’t say how a lot but. Spokesperson Crack of dawn McKenzie simply stated the up to date Raptor R would be the maximum tough F-150 and manufacturing desert-running off-road pickup truck cash should purchase, this means that it’ll have extra energy than the soon-to-be-dead Ram TRX’s 702 hp.

Pristine modular bumpers moderately modeled upcoming the Bronco’s might be to be had, as will a trader put in Inflexible LED shiny bar. The modular bumper has changed finish caps that divulge extra tire.

F-150 Tremor can get well itself

F-150 Tremor patrons can have a pristine approach to reinforce the truck’s off-road cure skill. A 12,000-pound Warn winch might be introduced as a dealer-installed accent. It’ll come fastened to the newly to be had modular entrance bumper, and the bundle will come with explicit entrance springs to maintain the residue weight at the entrance finish. The winch integrates with the truck’s protection programs and comprises parking sensors and a forward-facing digicam for the surround-view digicam machine.

The similar Inflexible bolt-on shiny bar to be had at the Raptor can also be not obligatory at the Tremor, regardless that no longer with the winch.

F-150 is going (just about) all turbocharged

The bottom F-150 drops the naturally aspirated 3.3-liter V-6. Bottom fashions might be powered through the prior to now to be had 2.7-liter turbo-6, which was once rated at 325 hp and 400 lb-ft. The three.5-liter twin-turbo V-6, 5.0-liter V-8, and three.5-liter twin-turbo V-6 hybrid powertrains will all elevate ahead, however Ford hasn’t excused 2024 energy rankings for those engines but. Each F-150 will proceed with a 10-speed computerized transmission. Life 2WD will come usual, 4 wheel drive might be to be had with a 2-speed switch case, a locking rear differential, and on some fashions, a Torsen limited-slip entrance differential.