NEW FORD F-150 NOW BEING DELIVERED

Ford Australia has kicked off customer deliveries of the iconic Ford F-150. To mark the milestone, the company recently invited select owners to tour the RMA Automotive facility in Mickleham, north of Melbourne, where the vehicles are re-manufactured into right-hand drive. The customers met Ford Australia’s Product Development engineers as well as RMA Automotive leadership for an in-depth tour into the facility, which can re-manufacture up to 20 F-150s each day, using an assembly line with 65 individual stations. The re-manufacturing process takes around 22 working hours over three days… Read more

NEW FORD F-150 – PRICING & SPECS

Ford Australia has announced pricing and specifications for the highly anticipated F-150 due to go on sale here in the second half of 2023. The F-150 will be remanufactured to right-hand drive by the Melbourne-based company RMA Automotive. It will come with the standard Ford five-year, unlimited kilometre warranty later this year and will be sold through the Ford nationwide dealer network. The new F-150 range will comprise four variants: XLT and Lariat each with the option of short (3683mm) or long (3987mm) wheelbases. The tray in the SWB models… Read more

FULL-SIZE F-150 UNDERGOES LOCAL TESTING

Ford continues to spruik the virtues of its ‘full-size’ utility cum pick-up F-150 due around the middle of next year. But you have to wonder whether Australia needs another hulking American pick-up on its roads, indeed whether it would be better off without any of its ilk? GMC’s Silverado and the Ram range of full-size trucks are already here and have been for some time. In fact, the F-150 itself is already, privately imported and converted to right-hand drive by Victoria’s Harrison F-Trucks as well as Queensland-based Performax International. Performax… Read more