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Motorsport

This Secret Ford F-150 Lightning Will Climb Pikes Peak

During Ford’s big party in Charlotte to kick off the 2024 racing season, firm CEO Jim Farley revealed a brand new “EV demonstrator” would deal with Pikes Peak. Details on that car weren’t talked about, and for probably the most half, they nonetheless aren’t talked about. However, we no less than know it is going to be an F-150 Lightning. But it will not something you may see on the native Ford dealership.

Ford shared a single teaser picture on social media on Friday, exhibiting the entrance of a car hiding underneath covers. It’s low, large, and there is a wild wing on the again just like the one on the bonkers electrical SuperVan. In truth, if Ford did not particularly say this was an F-150 Lightning, our minds would leap on to some SuperVan iteration past the present 4.2 mannequin. But this can be a truck, and clearly, Ford is making use of among the classes discovered from its supremely quick van.


Motorsport

You’ll Have To Pry The V8 Mustang Out Of Ford’s Cold, Dead Hands

Ford threw a helluva party last night in Charlotte, North Carolina. It marked the launch of the corporate’s 2024 racing season by means of Ford Performance, starting subsequent week with the massive endurance race at Daytona. The new Mustang GT3 can be there in pressure, and firm CEO Jim Farley needs the world to understand it has a V8 engine below the hood.

Actually, he needs the world to know there are tons of V8 Mustangs on the market proper now, each for the road and the observe. And it isn’t simply an American factor both. Speaking to a raucous Blue Oval crowd at a particular venue in Charlotte – the guts of NASCAR nation – he pulled no punches about Mustang being a world automobile for fanatics and race groups alike. And he firmly tied the Coyote V8 to its success.