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Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum Review: Time’s Up for ICE Trucks
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Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum Review: Time’s Up for ICE Trucks

I come from a long line of F-150s. One of my earliest vehicular memories is bouncing around in the back of a red, late-90s step-side that my grandpa trucked around his cattle ranch in the Sierra Nevadas. That truck eventually gave way to a silver 2004 model that got passed down to me in 2014, then a blue-green 2015 model that I inherited when Gammy and Papa (as I still call them) sold the ranch a few years later. And I've been driving them hard around the Pacific Northwest ever since.For myself and Papa Hall, now in his mid-eighties, trucks are tools. Despite the fact that he did shell out for extras like an extra-large tank (“so that I wouldn't have to pay for gas in California”), they were for hauling firewood, towing trailers, and driving a series of black and brown labs to go duck hun...