Article content That $79,995 is actually considered ‘cheap’ by electric pickup standards says all we need to know about the ravages inflation has wrought on the automotive world — not to mention the difficulty of making battery-electrics price-competitive with their combustion equivalents. That said, the Lightning — especially this Flash variant — has much to recommend it. For one it handles a delight.
Having its substantial weight distributed better front-to-rear — not to mention lower in the chassis — has no ends to benefits. It is simultaneously more agile and more stable, the first afforded by the weight distribution, the second by the lower centre of gravity borne of the giant battery placed down low. It is also decidedly more powerful than anything else wearing F-150 badging, there being 580 horsepower and 775 pound-feet of torque.
Think round about four seconds to 100 kilometres an hour and less than 13 seconds in the quarter-mile. That means that it’s quicker than a Porsche 911 Carrera and, if you wanna wax nostalgic, pretty much any muscle car you worship from the ‘60s or ‘70s. My favourite part is that, if you punch it below about 60 km/h, it’ll squeal one (or more) of its big Goodyear Territory 175/60R20s.
The interior is both commodious and rich. About the only serious omission compared with the Lariat version of the Lightning is the bounty of leather that usually covers pretty much everything. There are a few other notable differences — th.
