Spied: A Ford Light-Duty Eight-Lug Pickup
Our spy shooters caught this heavily camouflaged regular-cab Ford test pickup truck buzzing around Ford's Michigan Proving Ground in Romeo and it has us wondering about a few things. At first glance, it looks like it could be a normal two-wheel-drive F-250 work truck, but there's something odd about why it's so covered up.
It wasn't that long ago that several truckmakers offered work-duty half tons for commercial customers. We've written about the feasibility and practicality of having the option more available.
Whether this is a new type of "softer" Super Duty or "fatter" F-150 remains to be seen, at least until we can grab a shot of the truck's grille without all the cladding. Certainly Nissan thinks there's enough of a market for regular-cab models as well as work-oriented regular-cab diesels, but beyond its huge investment in the Titan and Titan XD, this is not likely to be a fence-straddling model other pickup truckmakers are likely to follow.
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