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it's a toy it's a tool it's a truck and as the best-selling pickup truck in America some would say it's the most important car on the road today which is why it's even more important that the Ford f-150 step into the 21st century and modernize let's hop behind the wheel of this 2015 ford f150 4x4 super crew platinum to see just how big of a step had taken another thing the Platinum's version of the Ford f-150 means that it's got a lot of fit and finish and luxury upgrades this is the truck that's aimed at the person who either wants to use this as their daily driver and has a little extra money to spend or somebody who wants to go to the work fight but doesn't want to feel like they're in a utilitarian vehicle on the way there and back so around the cabin we've got really nice things like leather multi-contour seats we've got leather on the dashboard metal wood everywhere that you see there's a really good fit and finish but underneath that there's until that truck ashiness everything is really big I mean for example the shifter is so big and so chunky that I can't really get my hand around it getting back to luxury things we've got a really cool feature in this card from a thighs seat I can get a back massage I can get heated and cooled surfaces I can even get the seat bottom to massage the my back s600 we had a couple of weeks ago didn't even have feet massagers this truck will massage your butt as you drive down the road it's really cool now this 2015 f150 still uses Ford SYNC - and my Ford touch this is generally a pretty terrible infotainment system it kind of moves everything out to the corners and in this vehicle it's a really long reach to the screen feel like getting the navigation means that you've got to get full extension of your arm to reach it and even once you're there everything just takes an extra second to get around fortunately the 2016 Ford f-150 is getting the much improved Ford SYNC 3 weight for that one now the cats all good for getting people around but this is the truck so you're gonna want to move things every now and then that's where this bed comes into play and because it's the Platinum Edition we've got some really nice features such as this automatic drop down tailgate and right here we've got this slide-out step up so you don't break your neck or twist rank while getting in and out of it and the bed is very customizable we've got built-in tie-downs in this example has this sort of bed extender well they are these little plastic gates that sort of like unlatch and fold out so as you can get an extra foot and a half of cargo capacity driving around with things that your bed down without having to worry about them flopping out now under the hood we're gonna be dealing with four it's 3.5 liter EcoBoost v6 not v8 v6 and that's not even the smallest engine available in this f-150 now what EcoBoost means in Ford parlance is turbocharged and in this case we're talking about twin turbos on our v6 engine total power is gonna be about 365 horsepower stated and about 420 pound-feet of torque it's nothing to thumb your nose at there and when you step on the throttle you do get a little bit of a rev up and nice burble it sounds like a v8 and it sort of pulls like a v8 so let's at least consider the acceleration portion of Ford's claim of v8 power of v6 efficiency as confirmed I'm speaking of efficiency the EPA rates this thing at about 19 miles per gallon combined during my testing I got about eighteen point one on the highway which dropped down to about 16 miles per gallon when I got stuck in traffic and really started testing the acceleration now that engines gonna be paired with a single option six-speed Automatic transmission that close in to a two-speed transfer case this is a 4x4 so we also have the ability to slick between two wheel drive and four wheel drive with high low and automatic ratios now the Platinum Edition sort of positions itself not really as a work truck but more of a luxury truck the sort of thing that you'd use to tow the down to the waterfront on the weekend and so what she won from that is reasonable efficiency which we kind of have and a nice quiet and comfortable ride you want luxury out of this Platinum Edition and the interesting thing about going with a 3.5 liter ecoboost is that it's a very quiet very smooth engine well you're just sort of cruising down the highway not really hammering it when you're waiting at a traffic light you'll immediately notice that that v6 engine is extremely quiet you barely even notice that it's running that's just how buttery smooth it is 2015 Ford f-150 platinum rolls off the lot at about fifty four thousand three hundred and eighty-five bucks but with all the options and destination charges we've got on this example we're looking at more like sixty-two thousand one hundred and fifty bucks Alif excuse me I've got to go help everyone I know moves you