Ford F-150 Lariat 2025 changes little, but follows with V8

How many V8 engines have left us in recent times? In the era of electrification and new and more restrictive emissions standards in various markets, the “V8oooitão” is the great villain to be fought on several fronts. At the same time, some are still alive and thank how modernized in recent years or for the way their automakers see them. Just look at how Ford managed to keep him on the F-150 2025.

The pickup was restyled in the United States in 2023 and has not been totally free from the V8 machete. The platinum version lost this option, replaced by 3.5 V6 biturbo – that’s why we get the F -150 Lariat and Lariat Black in the catalog here. But in this new era, it is to be celebrated that the pickup has kept the engine aspirated to the delight of a slice of buyers who, yes, care a lot about it.

It doesn’t look like it, but it was in the first half of 2023 that the Ford F-150 arrived in Brazil, just before it moved outside. But they are so subtle touches that you need to know the pickup well to perceive them. At the front, new grid and new headlights, as well as the most two -dimensional Ford logo and, at Lariat Black, with a black background for the first time. In the rear, new lanterns and the lid that exchanged the friendly staircase for a bi-party cover, which facilitates the use mainly with coupled trailer.

Inside, the pickup has gained an inteirial notalier between the instrument panel and the multimedia system, both 12 “, as well as some new materials applied. It also debuts a head up display and the center console that can become a table, with retractable gearbox. In short, they are very punctual changes in the pickup, something more needed in their homeland, where it sells a lot.

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Photo of: Mario Villaescusa / Motor1.com

Photo of: Mario Villaescusa / Motor1.com

The V8 that the Ford F-150 uses is the same 5.0 Coyote as Mustang, with electronic programming and different exhaust system to generate 405 hp and 56.7 kgfm, but with main focus on how it offers these numbers in practice and, especially, how it talks to the 10-speed automatic gearbox and the 4×4 traction system with automatic mode and reduced box.

With its 5.90 m long, of course the F-150 is far from unnoticed. With 3.70 m wheelbase, only here is larger than a lot of car we see in the streets, so it’s not the most friendly vehicle for big centers and the smaller and smaller lanes, which is not even a problem for your target audience, which ends up using more in situations away from this kind of thing.

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Let’s start with the concept that the F-150 is almost a “normal car” in the United States. Therefore, she needs to have the driving and driving to various types of customers and, in fact, she scares more for the size she really is to drive. It begins with the soft and gear, which despite the more than 400 hp, delivers smooth, linear and quiet, with low revs already available – often that the 10 -speed gearbox even jumps some exchanges, smart enough to see whether or not that relationship is needed.

Of course, if you sink your foot, the F-150 delivers your numbers. In our test, the 7.3 seconds are worthy considering that we are in a 2,387 kg vehicle – which is not higher by the use of much aluminum in the structure and body. V8 snoring is the highlight, especially in high revs, when it is no longer civilized and presents itself to the world and differs from “small” media to diesel.

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In the city, the 6.2 km/liter even surprise, as some smaller and less powerful cars spend almost the same thing on the same gasoline. On the road, the 10 gears help V8 drink 1 liter every 8.3 km, a range of 1,128 km, which justifies how comfortable the pickup is for long periods and as passengers, both in the internal space, comfort and size of bank, and for suspension and adjustment. Your vocation is a stranger, this is very clear.

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The Ford F-150 Lariat Black costs $ 545,000. It is a lot of money, but its competition consists of a Silverado Chevrolet of R $ 566,190 and RAM 1500 ranging from R $ 569,990 to R $ 579,990 (and lost the V8). Interestingly, the F-150 has sold less than two in 2024, but it may be related precisely with this visual change that happened out there shortly after its launch here.

It has quality and tradition to serve customers in this segment. It is well equipped, with a powerful V8 and carries the tradition of its name and the Ford in pickups. Given the competition, the fact that we still use the “Mustang engine” is a great advantage, something that should not change anytime soon, as the story of electric or hybrid pickups has not yet caught well.

Photos: Mario Villaescusa (for the motor1.com Brazil)