---
title: "Drive Wire: These Spy Shots Suggest the F-150 Is Packing Turbodiesel"
description: "Diesel isn't dead yet."
date: "2015-12-18"
modified: "2015-12-18"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/1374/drive-wire-these-spy-shots-suggest-the-f-150-is-packing-turbodiesel"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "F-150"
  - "Ford"
  - "pickup"
---

# Drive Wire: These Spy Shots Suggest the F-150 Is Packing Turbodiesel

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We have spy shots of a Ford F-150 pickup truck which include a strange and wonderful detail. See that exhaust tip? That, plus the growl reported by the shooter, suggest that this pickup is packing turbodiesel power, most likely from a three-liter land rover turbodiesel V6. This would give the pickup good numbers at the pump plus around four hundred forty foot-pounds of grunty torque. Although Ford has refused to comment on the possible turbodiesel, we know what we want in our heart of hearts – nice as the Ecoboost F-150 may be, this would be a fun diesel indeed.

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