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The 2011 Ford Super Duty stands once again atop the heavy duty truck heap.  Even with new offerings out or on the horizon, Dodge and GM can’t seem to keep up.  There are many reasons for this, two of which happen to be Ford’s dedication to truck buyers and their desire to build the best products money can buy.  Just look at this beast!  The all-new, in-house developed 6.7L Scorpion diesel engine cranks out 390 horsepower and a mind-numbing 735 pound feet of torque!  That’s the same amount of torque as 7 Toyota Priuses!  The even more impressive feat is that the new Super Duty is capable of pulling 24,000 pounds when properly equipped, or almost 8 Toyota Priuses!  These new rigs even manage 22 miles per gallon on highway drives.  For the full story, head on over to PickupTrucks.com or Autoblog.com.

(Image source: Ford)

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.

Ford has released a ton of videos on the new F-250 through F-550 lineup, which prove why this truck is the biggest and most capable of all trucks on the market!

Yea, that’s about it lol, I don’t have much else to add.  This is apparently the mascot for Ford’s new 6.7L V8 diesel expected to be fully revealed in the 2011 Super Duty pickups sometime in the next month or so.  For more, head on over to Pickuptrucks.com.

Our friends at Autoblog were the first to bring news of the new 6.7L Scorpion diesel from Ford, earlier today (12:01 AM to be exact) and boy is this engine impressive!  It features 30,000 psi fuel direct injection, a unique new single turbo design, as well as a compressed graphite iron block to reduce weight and increase strength.  No details on power have been released yet, but the new diesel is expected to produce more power and be more efficient than the outgoing 6.4L which makes 350 hp and 650 lb-ft of torque.  Stay tuned for more details!

For more details, and more pretty pictures, head on over to Autoblog.