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I’m a truck guy with a soft sport in my heart for the Ford F-150. Over the years, I have owned three of the world’s best selling vehicle, starting with a 1994 5.0 EFI V8. I drove the wheels off it, later trading for a 2001 Ford Ranger with a 4.0 V-6. During my time at Sioux Falls Ford, I had a 2011 F-150 EcoBoost, which was the first year of the engine.
It was a remarkable truck, paired to a 3:31 gear ratio. I later traded to a 2013, still with the 3.5 EcoBoost, but this time paired to a 3:55 rear end.
New Approach
When I was selling the EcoBoost trucks, it was sometimes hard to convince folks a smaller displacement V-6 could not only match a V-8, but make more power. Ford’s EcoBoost engine represented a change in the tides when it came to truck thinking. With the dawn of the 2015 F-150, Ford again altered the course of thinking, putting emphasis on an ideal power-to-weight ratio. The F-150 is arguably Ford’s most prolific vehicle and as such, has changed a lot over the last 30 years. According to a comparison created by Blue Springs Ford Parts, the 2016 F-150 has nearly twice the horsepower and 50% more torque than in 1986.
“The new EcoBoost V-6 is a pretty big deal,” said Kyle Harris of Blue Springs Ford Parts. “The old Ford V-8s from the 80s had good torque, but they just couldn’t handle big loads at highway speed. The EcoBoost V-6 does great with towing and hauling, e...