Crazy stuff. Hopefully everyone made it out without injury. It sucks seeing prototypes burn up (especially for fanboys of that brand), but I would much rather see these things burn up during the prototype phase than with your average joe who just bought his nice shiny new car driving down the freeway.
'16 SuperDuty prototype is better at doing a Ferrari than a real Ferrari
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True, but, in today's world it's become the norm to expect the un-expected from the corruption so you never know what's up these manufacturers sleeves.
Must have been working too hard with that load and self destructed.
Maybe the shroud or straps around it was resting on something hot, caught fire and...the rest is history.
are you insinuating that they intensionally build poor quality, unreliable cars? because as we know, terrible quality and reliability has always been such a huge selling point in the auto sales world. and these are vehicles made of tin hat are definitely proof of it. a genius business plan, well done ford.
That will buff right out - I recommend starting with some megs 100.
Oh they must be working on a new Diesel.
Sure makes clean up easier.
They found a spider in the truck and were pretty sure it was a brown recluse. So they killed it with fire.
You sir, sound like an idiot.
That was my first thought but then I was also thinking they simply were done testing this particular truck and decided it was time to dispose of it in a new engineered way. This should save landfills and scrap yards in the years to come!
Looks like they be testing a lot of magnesium panels on this one.
A simple loose fitting or tiny puncture allowing a flammable liquid to leak out and land on a hot pipe could have caused a fire. I wouldn't look into it as something catistrophic in engineering. Besides, it's better that it happen now than after they start rolling off the assembly line. Cars catch fire for non-engineering faults all the time though.
If this were the case these vehicles would be so crappy and flimsy they would not meet the lowest crash standards.
The truck burns because they are using magnesium components. Magnesium is stronger and lighter than aluminum but if it catches fire at a certain temp it combusts almost like thermite.
Trust me, Ford isn't doing it to make disposable vehicles.
wow haha
I know now what a 2016 model will look like with a realistic flame paint job.
They should just put flame throwers on them
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