Lightning, whether it’s the kind that bolts down from the clouds or the automotive type that Ford stopped building a decade ago, is fast. The type that brightens the sky can hit you in a split second. The Blue Oval variety doesn’t flash across the quarter-mile mark quite that quickly, but it’s still a force of nature.

The Raptor SVT’s current performance darling, but before it they built another truck to fight a slightly different battle. That truck was the F-150 Lightning. Where the Raptor was built to be a road-going trophy truck, the lightning (as it’s name implies) was built for speed. Of course it wasn’t the only the game in […] More »

The 2015 Ford F-150 looks to be a great evolution of the bestselling truck in the U.S. market, but there is an obvious absence of any high performance SVT models. Based on the success of the SVT Lightning and the SVT Raptor versions of the F-150, we can be sure that there will be a […] More »

There have been few trucks sold in America that offered better performance than the Ford F-150 SVT Lightning and today’s Tire Smoking video features one of those supercharged half ton pickups in the act of destroying the rear tires. The burnout starts off a little on the soft side as the F-150 works to get […] More »