so we're lucky enough to have a lot of good relationships with different ford dealers in
the area we've done a lot of stuff with hoffman ford over the years uh most recently bob roots
been great to us they let us borrow a maki and the first bronco we got our hands on if you've been
watching the channel for a while you know fred beans and boyertown we get a lot of vehicles from
them one dealer we've met recently is parsons for now they're down near chambersburg pennsylvania
and uh we actually met them when they got an allocation for a gt500 through a good friend of
mine and a friend of mine actually ended up buying their car from them and they've been good was ever
since that's a great dealership it's a small kind of hometown dealership but uh they reached out to
me yesterday and said hey would you like to drive a new lightning and i couldn't say yes fast enough
because i i am a fan of the maki i know a lot of you guys hate the mustang name and i'm not even
getting to that but as a vehicle it's kind of cool to drive if you're looking for an suv like that
so when ford decided to take you know the rebring the bring the lightning name back and put it on
an electric suv i mean the name fits perfectly you can't argue it no matter how much you like the old
lightnings lightning fits electric f-150 made really really well but the new lightning is an
impressive truck i mean i've wanted to drive one for a while my daily which we're in right now is
a 21 f-150 so it's a vehicle i'm very familiar with and you know i saw the lightning is going
to be basically you know they're they're going to make it f-150 the f-150 is the top-selling
vehicle pretty much on the planet so they're gonna make sure it is everything an f-150 should do
and more so i'm curious you know how the electric is gonna feel compared to what i'm used to now my
truck is a three-five twin turbo so it's a pretty quick truck for what it is wow 0-16 lightning is
over a second faster than this truck which should be a huge noticeable difference now the one we're
going to drive today i don't know all the details on it i've seen one picture of it and that's it
i believe it is a lariat but it has the extended battery so the extended range package is going to
bump it up to 580 horsepower and like 775 torque which should make it a very very fast truck that
also is 320 miles range which will be nice too the the base model truck is gonna be 450ish horsepower
somewhere in that neighborhood and 230 miles which i wouldn't have any interest in but 320 is
a decent range now my truck has the smaller tank and i get like 450 out of a tank so it's a little
lower than what i'd be used to but that power is definitely something i'm interested in now you're
not familiar with the lightning you know what i said it is electric dual motor all-wheel drive
every one of them is a supercrew 5-5 bed which is exactly what i drive uh they're available in
what they call their pro which is basically an xl if you're familiar with f-150 lineups
uh the pro is not available with the er battery unless you buy fleet uh the next step up will be
the xlt and then you have you know your lariat and then your top line would be the platinum now the
uh base price right around forty thousand dollars for a base all the way up to north of ninety five
thousand for a fully loaded platinum with like all the bells and whistles so price is gonna be all
over the place depending on what luxury you're looking for depending on what kind of packages
you're looking for but again i don't know anything about the one we're driving today i just heard hey
lightning do you want to drive it i said yes so we're on our way down so let's go check it out
so here it is the 2022 f-150 lightning now we pulled a lot did a bunch of f-150s parked out
front this one stood out i mean the lightning it is all f-150 but it is unique and it definitely
stands out from the other ones this is a loaded lariat so this has the power moon roof the 15 inch
screen extended range battery comes in at just over 80 000 which is a lot of money for a truck
but if you price out an f-150 and load up a lariat you're kind of in the same neighborhood the inside
again is very luxurious on this truck you got the power moon roof the large screen leather interior
everything you'd expect from a luxury car but in a truck that only has a bed but has a frunk as well
now the one that really stands out with this truck though is the color that iced blue silver
is an amazing color in person i don't even know if the camera's gonna capture it all but again it
looks amazing very very cool truck very excited to drive it so let's jump in and go for a test drive
so the one thing ford said they definitely want to focus on with the lightning was to make sure it
felt like an f-150 i mean f-150 you know number one selling vehicle pretty much on the planet
so they want to make sure that this felt like an f-150 and it does i mean like i said i drive one
every day everything in here is familiar they put a real shifter in it not a knob
not buttons you know an actual you know console mounted shifter the biggest difference i can see
is obviously this massive center screen we'll show you some shots of that it is huge 15.4
inches i think somewhere in that neighborhood but it is absolutely massive takes up the whole center
and in the dash there's no gauges no nothing it's a lot different you know you don't have your i'm
using the speedometer attack and literally it's just a speedometer so that's a lot different but
everything else is very familiar of course any electric you go to drive it and you turn it on to
start it and you have it just makes no noise and does nothing which is still strange and probably
always will be but it feels like an f-150 i mean the ride quality is amazing these things
ride like luxury cars these days it doesn't feel like a truck anymore throttle response
i mean it's you barely give it some throttle and it's it just goes and we'll do some full throttle
stuff in a little bit i just want to actually drive a little bit get kind of a feel for it
yeah i mean it's a lariat f-150 it's luxurious inside it's extremely comfortable
rides amazing i mean it it's a luxury car with a bed and like i said in this case a frunk as well
fire response is very good i mean you give it
a little bit of throttle and it responds pretty much immediately
it's still weird you don't get that downshift it's just instant torque and that's that's the
biggest difference i can feel between driving a normal f-150 and the lightning is just that
throttle response is just crazy like the second you tap it it just goes
now i don't know 100 but i'm assuming these are like the maki where you only get so many
seconds of full throttle you know a full full throttle full battery uh before it actually
pulls back a little bit that's a maki feature i think it's five seconds of wide open before
it pulls back to save the batteries a little bit this is probably the same way but
yeah you just hit it and it's and yeah the brakes are amazing too it really is a impressive
vehicle to drive it doesn't feel as big as it is which i've noticed with the regular f-150s too
but yeah the the complete lack of any sort of sound takes some getting used to and just like
the maki i mean it's quiet inside like you you really just don't hear anything
now you can configure the screen too and put your battery range and your battery power
and there's a screen here called where does my energy go it actually tells you what you're kind
of doing with the screen you know where if you're using it your battery power to run the vehicle's
features for accessories for driving for whatever it's pretty cool it actually breaks it down
obviously most of the battery power goes towards running the electric motors one good thing about
pennsylvania is we have lots of little farm roads with nothing around just a good place
to test this thing out so let's see we're stopped here all righty let's see what this thing will do
so it actually spins the front tire just a little bit but yeah there's 60. it does
not take long i said with that torque curve it pulls yeah they don't make the right sounds i
get it but electrics are still fun the torque of these things is something you have to experience
it is interesting though in an all-wheel drive vehicle that you do get just a little bit of
front tire spin before it takes off even from that i mean the torque is just and it's
instantly it doesn't build the second you're on the throttle it's all torque all the time
i mean whether you like it or not ford has made a point of saying they are pushing evs
i mean they've split the company you've got you know your model e and your ford blue now
and you know there's talk of next year sema that ev is gonna be their big freaking push
so you know whether you like it or not evs are here to stay is the lightning for everybody no
you know there's definitely still some questions about towing you know it will tow 7 000 pounds but
what's that gonna do to the battery life obviously it's probably gonna lower that mileage so that
could be an issue as well but cool vehicle i mean it it is an f-150 it drives again f-150 it feels
comfortable it's very familiar if you know f-150s inside but the power particularly the torque and
that instantaneous response but it makes it a fun vehicle i mean it's a comfortable great vehicle so
it's something you're in the market for definitely worth checking out
so back in my truck after driving the f150 lightning i got to tell you i was very excited
it was kind of a last minute thing we heard it was there and you know we basically dropped what
we're doing ran down and thanks again to parsons interstate ford for letting us you know have it
for a couple hours and enjoy it and i did like the truck i mean it was i said that the power
of electric the all-wheel drive and the instant torque of that thing it is a fun truck to drive
um now i probably gave this glowing review about how much great it is but you know there definitely
are some concerns with the lightning i know a lot of people aren't happy with the name but let's be
honest the lightning name fits an f-150 that's electric i know the gen 1 gen 2 owners are not
a huge fan but it's way more lightning than a maki is a mustang so it's not that far off
there are a couple things i can say i wasn't thrilled about with the truck um back behind the
wheel of my f-150 with the normal you know 15-inch screen here i actually think the screen is almost
too much in the lightning now again you don't have to get that massive screen it's an option
but it was almost like it was too much screen but one of the biggest things i wasn't a fan of
was the front end now i liked it it looks f-150 it has that right look to it but up close
the plastic is kind of almost cheap looking in the grill and it's gonna make a mess when you drive it
because you're gonna have bug splatters everywhere the biggest problem i had was the lights in the
front that big kind of led strip that goes across the hood and through the headlights and everything
when you see that up close it kind of has a cheap like knockoff chinese grill kind of look to it
you know the the lighting looks cool when it's lit up but when it's not lit up it kind of did
have a very plasticky look so i wasn't very thrilled with that and another issue
is chargers you know it does come with a charger but if you want to get the fast charger for home
now you're talking an investment another i think it's thirteen fifteen hundred dollars somewhere in
there which we're talking about trucks that are approaching a hundred thousand dollars
a thousand dollar whatever charger should be included like that's not something you should have
to buy on top of the price of the truck and i know where the manufacturers do it and ford's kind of
copying that but i mean overall it was a very cool truck uh it wouldn't be the right truck for me
because again you really can't do a lot of towing with it without stopping constantly which would
drive me nuts but you know if i had the means for something fun just to kind of cruise around and
you know do local trips with and just have fun with i mean i said from a performance standpoint
it is a very cool truck the the power and that instant torque you get with electric
you know it is definitely something to experience and you know it it's still
an f-150 it felt like an f-150 it worked like an f-150 uh you know the cosmetics
you know some of them being a little goofy aside overall definitely a very cool truck
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