By Lucas Elke
When Ford offered CarEnvy their brand new 2011 Ford F-150 Platinum EcoBoost truck for a week, they probably thought it would be a shoe-in for a great review.
It came loaded with their V8-vanquishing 365hp twin-turbo V6, graced with every option on the checklist, and would be driven in the heartland of truck country where the religion of Ford is more widely practiced than the religions of Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam combined. What else could Ford do to all but guarantee themselves a great write up? It’s worked on every other Albertan car journalist, so of course it would work at CarEnvy! Well, they probably weren’t anticipating it being driven by a truck-hating cynic who hasn’t “driven a Ford lately” and, until now, had no intentions to do so.