Ford releases specs on 2011 Super Duty and it doesn’t fail to impress!
Ford has been talking about its new 2011 Super Duty for over 6 months now, ever since it debuted at the State Fair of Texas. Well the specifications have finally come out and they are nothing but amazing. The new 6.7L Scorpion diesel produces 390 hp and a whopping 735 lb-ft of torque! That’s 85 more lb-ft of torque than the 2010 Super Duty. Towing is up to 24,400 pounds on the F-450 with a fifth wheel trailer. Payload is a Toyota-embarrassing 6,520 pounds on the F-350. Fuel economy is also up, 18% on pickup models and 25% on chassis cab models. For more details, head on over to PickupTrucks.com or Autoblog.
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Video of the 2011 Ford Super Duty making a run at a tractor pull…WOW!
Check out this video of a stock 2011 Ford F-450 Super Duty at a tractor pull event. The trailer weighs 30,000 pounds and the truck makes it the full pull before being waved off by the flag man. Impressive considering the truck is a preproduction unit from the nearby Kentucky Truck Plant. The truck in the video was packing Ford’s all new, in-house designed and developed 6.7L V8 Scorpion diesel. For more on the story, head over to PickupTrucks.com.
