Ford has officially confirmed that it will start selling the F-150 pick-up truck in Australia by the middle of 2023. The F Series is immensely popular in the United States and has been absent from the Australian market for 16 years since 2007.
When the F-150 was last sold in Australia, units were converted from left- to right-hand drive in Brazil before being shipped over. The latest, 14th-generation of the F-150 set to go on sale next year will also undergo a RHD conversion, which will be handled by Thailand-based engineering firm RMA Automotive.
As reported by Drive, the F-150 will be imported to Australia in LHD and remanufactured to RHD locally at a new facility located in Broadmeadows, Victoria, under the supervision of a team of Ford engineers.
It should be noted that RMA Automotive has not done conversion work on this scale before, as it specialises in up-fitting Ranger models for police, military and mining use at a facility not far from the Ranger and Everest production lines in Rayong, Thailand.
Converted F-150s will be sold in Australia through Ford’s showroom network with a five-year, unlimited-mileage warranty. Initially, the F-150 will be offered in XLT and Lariat variants, both featuring a 3.5 litre twin-turbo EcoBoost V6 (405 PS and 678 Nm), a 10-speed automatic transmission and selectable four-wheel drive.
Other features include a 4.5-tonne towing capacity, Ford’s SYNC 4 infotainment system and a suite of advanced safety systems like blind spot monitoring, cross-traffic alert, lane keep assist, automatic high beam, reverse brake sensing and assist, automatic emergency braking as well as post-collision braking.
Pricing for the F-150 will be revealed closer to its market launch, and there’s a possibility that other models in the F Series range will also be converted for the Australian market.
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Will be popular here too …
has been selling here as in CKD form for quite a few years
https://paultan.org/2019/01/29/ford-f-150-raptor-launched-in-malaysia/
Now this is the big kahuna, the Father of All Truck!
All others, bow to this road lord!
4.5 tonne towing capacity. So if you don’t like how a prick parks his car like an a–hole, you can towing it away into the river.
they should have engage Proton’s world femes LHD to RHD conversion team from Tajung Malim
It would have taken too long due to Proton’s strive for perfectly natural conversion. You won’t find a misplaced fuse box or dinky glove compartment in their cars.
The OG team is actually from NAZA that converted the LHD Hafei Lobo into NAZA Sutera.