Ford Taking Risk on All-Aluminum F-150 Pickup

These are scary times at Ford Motor Co. as workers rip out the body shop at the company’s 2.6-million-square-foot Dearborn, Mich., truck plant and replace it with a radically different one. By converting its best-selling F-150 pickup from a steel body to aluminum, Ford is replacing the tried-and-true spot-welding process with a far more complex […]