{"id":382,"date":"2012-08-01T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenvehiclenetwork.com\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2012-08-01T16:03:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T16:03:11","slug":"ford-testing-aluminum-to-lighten-weight-of-pickups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/ford-testing-aluminum-to-lighten-weight-of-pickups\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Testing Aluminum to Lighten Weight of Pickups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pickup truck buyers are a stubborn lot, or so goes the conventional  wisdom. What matters is payload and towing capacity; all else be  damned.<\/p>\n<p>But recent trends suggest that\u2019s not necessarily the  case. The latest generation of full-size trucks now offer the sort of  high-tech, high-touch features you might expect in a luxury car. And,  perhaps most shockingly, Ford Motor Co. is now selling more than half of  its F-Series pickups equipped with V-6s, rather than the classic,  heavy-hauling V-8.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bottomline.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/07\/30\/12994718-ford-looks-to-aluminum-to-slash-weight-of-pickups?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pickup truck buyers are a stubborn lot, or so goes the conventional wisdom. What matters is payload and towing capacity; all else be damned. But recent trends suggest that\u2019s not necessarily the case. The latest generation of full-size trucks now offer the sort of high-tech, high-touch features you might expect in a luxury car. And, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_citadela_custom_class":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[488],"tags":[],"citadela-post-location":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"citadela-post-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.ca\/directory-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-post-location?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}