How It's Made

Neat I think.  Ford had the largest margin to make up with you compare the last generation truck with the current Chrysler and GM offerings.

Fit, finish, engineering, component installation and mating.  A bunch of small things from the last gen truck bring questions. They had better hope the new effort is all of that.  Chrysler is on a tear, and GM isn't missing much lately.  Bring the A game or go home.

The "cutting edge" part of this is that they are doing it on such a large scale. Many of the techniques they were showing are already used in production methods. We seen them locally with a tour of the GM Cruze plant. For example with the hood there are no rivets or spot welds holding on any of the reinforcement plates and plenty of structural adhesive. I'm sure there was much more design/trial and error on the stamping side with die design changes to deal with the different flow characteristics of aluminum vs steel.