Even knowing all this, hurtling around the track so effortlessly in something so large felt bizarre. It pegs 0-60 mph at between four and five seconds, making the Lightning its quickest truck ever. Ford promises the all-wheel-drive Lightning will produce 775 pound-feet of torque and up to 563 horsepower. None of this should've come as a surprise. But the sensation is so much more surreal in a bulky pickup like the Lightning, a truck that, by the looks of it, has no business smoking sports cars in a straight line. You can experience roughly this sort of instant, powerful acceleration in any EV, from a commuter Kia to a high-performance Audi.
There's none of that hesitation in the F-150 Lightning - it takes off with all its might immediately, and it just keeps hauling. Getting up to highway speeds in a conventional truck means waiting for gears to shift as the engine revs to higher RPMs. But all that subtlety vanished the instant the Lightning's chief engineer, Linda Zhang, floored it onto one of the track's straightaways.įrom a stop, the Lightning blasted forward with breathtaking force, throwing me back into my seat. It often indicates a user profile.Ĭreeping around a parking lot, the Lightning was silent, unassuming. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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