Catching up with Ram in the screen wars…
Ford Truck is adding an optional 12-inch touch screen plus cloud-connected SYNC 4 with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and navigation to a mildly tweaked 2022 F-Series Super Duty pickup scheduled to be on sale this summer. New colors are available inside and out.
Carrying over, so to speak, are what Ford claims is the highest available payload, and maximum conventional and fifth-wheel towing. AutoInformed guesstimates the price range won’t be best in the value class at, oh, $35,000 to $60,000.
The new, landscape-oriented 12-inch center touch screen with SYNC®4 is standard on Lariat and above models, with physical controls below for quick access to commonly used functions. Occupants can easily multitask functions by splitting the screen to see navigation, music, truck features and the new digital owner’s manual.
With a claimed doubling in the computing power of the previous-generation system, all-new SYNC 4 can wirelessly connect smartphones without an USB cord for integration of the Apple or Android apps, as well as SYNC AppLink. Customers can interact with the truck using a voice control to ask for points of interest or delays along a route. SYNC voice control and a 4.2-inch center screen remains standard on the XL series trucks with SYNC 3 available while an 8-inch center touch screen and SYNC 3 are standard on XLT.
The current-gen Super Duty has an optional 7.3-liter V8 with the most gas horsepower and torque – 430 horsepower and 475 lb.-ft. of torque. The optional third-generation 6.7-liter diesel V8 delivers 1,050 lb.-ft. of torque and 475 horsepower. Super Duty’s maximum gooseneck towing of up to 37,000 pounds, maximum fifth-wheel towing of 32,500 pounds, maximum conventional towing of 24,200 pounds and maximum payload capacity of 7,850 pounds. All of the preceding are claimed to be best-in-class, defined as full-size pickups over 8,500 pounds GVWR.
About Ken Zino
Ken Zino, publisher (kzhw@aol.com), is a versatile auto industry participant with global experience spanning decades in print and broadcast journalism, as well as social media. He has automobile testing, marketing, public relations and communications experience. He is past president of The International Motor Press Assn, the Detroit Press Club, founding member and first President of the Automotive Press Assn. He is a member of APA, IMPA and the Midwest Automotive Press Assn.
Zino is at home on test tracks, knows his way around U.S. Congressional hearing rooms, auto company headquarters, plant floors, as well as industry research and development labs where the real mobility work is done. He can quote from court decisions, refer to instrumented road tests, analyze financial results, and profile executive personalities and corporate cultures.
He also brings an historical perspective while citing their contemporary relevance of the work of legendary auto writers such as Ken Purdy, Jim Dunne or Jerry Flint, or writers such as Red Smith, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson – all to bring perspective to a chaotic automotive universe.
Above all, decades after he first drove a car, Zino still revels in the sound of the exhaust as the throttle is blipped and the driver’s rush that occurs when the entry, apex and exit points of a turn are smoothly and swiftly crossed. It’s the beginning of a perfect lap.
AutoInformed has an editorial philosophy that loves transportation machines of all kinds while promoting critical thinking about the future use of cars and trucks.
Zino builds AutoInformed from his background in automotive journalism starting at Hearst Publishing in New York City on Motor and MotorTech Magazines and car testing where he reviewed hundreds of vehicles in his decade-long stint as the Detroit Bureau Chief of Road & Track magazine. Zino has also worked in Europe, and Asia – now the largest automotive market in the world with China at its center.
2022 Ford Super Duty Pickup Gets 12-Inch Screen
Catching up with Ram in the screen wars…
Ford Truck is adding an optional 12-inch touch screen plus cloud-connected SYNC 4 with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and navigation to a mildly tweaked 2022 F-Series Super Duty pickup scheduled to be on sale this summer. New colors are available inside and out.
Carrying over, so to speak, are what Ford claims is the highest available payload, and maximum conventional and fifth-wheel towing. AutoInformed guesstimates the price range won’t be best in the value class at, oh, $35,000 to $60,000.
The new, landscape-oriented 12-inch center touch screen with SYNC®4 is standard on Lariat and above models, with physical controls below for quick access to commonly used functions. Occupants can easily multitask functions by splitting the screen to see navigation, music, truck features and the new digital owner’s manual.
With a claimed doubling in the computing power of the previous-generation system, all-new SYNC 4 can wirelessly connect smartphones without an USB cord for integration of the Apple or Android apps, as well as SYNC AppLink. Customers can interact with the truck using a voice control to ask for points of interest or delays along a route. SYNC voice control and a 4.2-inch center screen remains standard on the XL series trucks with SYNC 3 available while an 8-inch center touch screen and SYNC 3 are standard on XLT.
The current-gen Super Duty has an optional 7.3-liter V8 with the most gas horsepower and torque – 430 horsepower and 475 lb.-ft. of torque. The optional third-generation 6.7-liter diesel V8 delivers 1,050 lb.-ft. of torque and 475 horsepower. Super Duty’s maximum gooseneck towing of up to 37,000 pounds, maximum fifth-wheel towing of 32,500 pounds, maximum conventional towing of 24,200 pounds and maximum payload capacity of 7,850 pounds. All of the preceding are claimed to be best-in-class, defined as full-size pickups over 8,500 pounds GVWR.
About Ken Zino
Ken Zino, publisher (kzhw@aol.com), is a versatile auto industry participant with global experience spanning decades in print and broadcast journalism, as well as social media. He has automobile testing, marketing, public relations and communications experience. He is past president of The International Motor Press Assn, the Detroit Press Club, founding member and first President of the Automotive Press Assn. He is a member of APA, IMPA and the Midwest Automotive Press Assn. Zino is at home on test tracks, knows his way around U.S. Congressional hearing rooms, auto company headquarters, plant floors, as well as industry research and development labs where the real mobility work is done. He can quote from court decisions, refer to instrumented road tests, analyze financial results, and profile executive personalities and corporate cultures. He also brings an historical perspective while citing their contemporary relevance of the work of legendary auto writers such as Ken Purdy, Jim Dunne or Jerry Flint, or writers such as Red Smith, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson – all to bring perspective to a chaotic automotive universe. Above all, decades after he first drove a car, Zino still revels in the sound of the exhaust as the throttle is blipped and the driver’s rush that occurs when the entry, apex and exit points of a turn are smoothly and swiftly crossed. It’s the beginning of a perfect lap. AutoInformed has an editorial philosophy that loves transportation machines of all kinds while promoting critical thinking about the future use of cars and trucks. Zino builds AutoInformed from his background in automotive journalism starting at Hearst Publishing in New York City on Motor and MotorTech Magazines and car testing where he reviewed hundreds of vehicles in his decade-long stint as the Detroit Bureau Chief of Road & Track magazine. Zino has also worked in Europe, and Asia – now the largest automotive market in the world with China at its center.