Good morning and happy New Year to everyone!
We decided to spend the day at Madison County board with none other than the best selling vehicle in the US the
2019 Ford f-150 this particular
F150 is the nearly loaded platinum trim which will be the focus of this review but
we will also be covering some other trims in separate videos later in the year and
If you're in the market for any new Ford be sure to stop by their dealership or pay them a visit via their website which
we provided a link to in the video description
Now Ford has been very good about making at least some changes every year and
2019 is no different so let's go ahead and check out one of the most luxurious truck
So starting out with the exterior of the Platinum since the styling was just refreshed last year nothing has changed for 2019 the
Platinum's grille is unique from all the other trim levels featuring two central bars and a silver mesh filling
Those bars extend out of the grille where they are bracketed by LED headlights that wrap entirely around the outside and then
at the bottom there are also LED fog lights
Checking out the side Platinum's are somewhat limited in the available configurations
you have to get this full four-door super crew but you can still choose between short and standard size beds
Around back platinum of course scores you the signature silver tailgate with the platinum engraving as
well as the fancier LED tail light combination
Off to the side you still have the side mounted chrome exhaust, whereas the new limited model will have dual exhaust in the back
Overall despite the f-150 no longer being the newest truck on the block it still has a very handsome and upscale design which has
presence
Now part of the upscale appearance comes from these wheels
they're 20 inch alloys which I believe are the only factory option available for the Platinum grade if
You do want 22s then there will be a limited trim which will hopefully be able to review once one arrives at dealers
Coming up to the mirrors like the rest of the truck they are fully loaded
We have power adjusting chrome caps turn signals heating power folding and auto dimming as
Well as blind spot detection that even monitors the trailer
And then for all your other safety systems our models Technology Package adds them all
Excluding the auto brake with pedestrian detection, which is now included on every single f150 for 2019
Now heading back around to the rear let's talk towing
There are three different engines several axle ratios to drive trains and several other variables
So, I'm just going to quote this particular model
we have the supercrew 3.5 liter EcoBoost
4x4 3.5 five axle ratio and the max trailering package
which means therefore that our rating is
13,000 pounds if you are comparing that does exceed the new Silverado high country
As far as the bed it has all the features who are used to seeing on f-150s like the power tailgate release LED lighting and
customizable accessory slots
our platinum, also comes with a very nice factory bedliner and the typical Ford Assistant
Finally we'll end the outside at the fuel tank
When you choose the max trailering package it throws in the extended 36 gallon fuel tank
Which in this case is good for an insane
674 mile range
But anyways that's it for the outside so now let's move on to the luxurious cabin
So as you would expect the Platinum does come standard with smart entry as well as the remote start system
And then to get inside the vehicle all you have to do is just grab the handle
When you open it up, you will notice that the Platinum does come standard with power deploying running boards
But anyways taking a look inside the 2019
f150 as you can tell nothing has really changed this year so it continues to be very luxurious
premium leather is standard on the Platinum and you've got two different color choices a
standard black or this really rich dark marsala color
An
In turning over to the door trim it is also nicely appointed
If you have really soft leather through here soft touch plastic up top and then you have genuine open pore wood through the middle part
Your front two windows are one touch automatic
You have power folding mirrors and additionally three-person memory seating here on the Platinum
Now coming over here to the seats themselves they are 10-way power adjusting with four-way lumbar support and they do even have
Massaging which is available through the Sync 3s display
As far as the leather itself it's really high-quality very soft and supple and then you've got the really nice looking
Contrasting piece right through here as well as your platinum badging
As far as getting into the vehicle the power to ply running bores drop down nice and low and then you've still got your assist
grip so it's quite easy
Like I said looking around the cabin you won't really notice any changes but it continues to be a really high-quality
All of your upper dash is made from a soft touch plastic with stitching
And then dropping down you've got a piece of real open pore wood
There's more of that open for wood over here on this cover
And then everything else does fit together very solidly and seems high-quality
Start the vehicle all you have to do is press this button
When you press it you'll see the 8 inch sync 3 display fire up
And over here the gauges you'll, also see the 7-inch digital gauge cluster start up
Now this is the same as you've seen in various Ford products for years
It's a very nice setup you have tons of different functions you've got your fuel economy
Different information as well as your status as far as you're trailering and your off-road status
So much like the Raptor we were in earlier today you've got your different angles as
Well as your power distribution for the four-wheel drive system so this is really nice information to have
Coming back to the steering wheel
It is electric power assisted and you've got a really soft and supple leather with some more color contrast stitching over
here you got your standard buttons for that display as well as for your adaptive cruise control and
Then over here you've got your regular phone and volume and voice commands
Up, above the wheel you do have rain sensing wipers and the wheel itself is power adjusting as well as heated
The pedals do also power adjust and there is your electronic parking brake
Now moving on to storage the f-150 continues to be one of the best vehicles money can buy
Opening up the center console here as you can see it's absolutely enormous
You've got this sliding tray then you can just pull this off and as you can see this goes down
like an entire foot and it's probably a foot and a half
wide as well so I mean it's incredible how much you can fit in here definitely could fit an entire purse
Laptop tablet anything like that
And then there is also a 12-volt outlet as well
Up above in front of that you've got your cupholders and then you
can slide this piece of wood back to reveal another really a deep area great for a cell phone and
Then within there you've also got your two USB ports
Now unlike a lot of recent Ford's the f-150 continues with a traditional shifter
So you just pull back for drive and you can pull it back once more for your manual mode where you. Can shift via this
Toggle right here
You can also click this button to activate the drive modes and this will just allow you to cycle through different things like your tow
snow wet eco sport and normal modes
And then when we go into reverse on this platinum f150 we do have the
360-degree camera system which is included as part of the 701A package
This is a very nice setup as you can see you've got both your traditional view your 360 view as well as a visualization
of your parking sensors you can press this plus
to zoom in and this line here represents where your towing hitch would hook up
You can additionally cycle through a couple more views
Including your corner view so you don't scrape into anything
And if you still fill in capable of parking you've got your automatic parking, which is for both vertical and parallel parking spots
As far as your other features over here is your standard four-wheel
drive controls you got your trailer brake controller and then right here in the middle we have the optional trailer backup assist
This is really neat if you haven't heard about it before basically you just turn this knob
where you want your trailer to go and then the system will take care of the actual steering itself
Turning over here to your climate controls these are dual zone automatic
Very simple to use you just have two big knobs as well as all of your controls laid out here
if for some reason you want to make adjustments up here on the screen you can also do that and
Then inside of this menu this is where you would find your button to activate the heated steering wheel
Additionally the Platinum does come standard with both three-stage heated and three-stage ventilated seats
But anyways that brings us up to our 1,000 watt 10 speaker Bang & Olufsen sound system so let's go ahead and take a sample
These new Bang & Olufsen sound systems and Ford's really sound excellent
But anyways that brings us up
Here to our Sync 3 system so let's go ahead and take a quick look
Taking out the sink three system this is the same as you see in all other forts so
You continue to have a nice home screen and then you've got all your shortcut buttons across the bottom
This is also where you would turn on and off your heated steering, wheel if you have that equipped
Starting out in audio you can play and pause your music straight from here
And then you can click into here to see all your other audio sources including your applications like Pandora or Spotify
Navigation is standard on the Platinum F-150
However if you do out for it it is a very nice system
But if you choose not to, you
Will still have Android auto and apple carplay to give you the ability to use Google or Apple maps
and then the one last thing I want to touch on is here in the settings you will now find in 2019 the
fordpass connect that basically is your mobile hotspot as well as gives you the ability to
Control certain things via an app on your phone
You do have three gigs or three months of a trial period and
You can turn it on off here as well as find your password as well
That's pretty much all I'm going to cover in this video for sync 3 however
we do have a detailed sync 3
tech help video available for those of you who want to learn more a link to that is provided in the video description to
Beyond the display you have three more buttons up here
We've already talked about this one is for your camera system and then this one here defeats the auto
Start-stop system if that's something that annoys you
Up, top we do have an auto dimming mirror as well as our three Universal Homelink remotes
And then another really nice feature that our f-150 has is the optional panoramic
how you can see it is really really large and
then this front portion
Opens up entirely as well to make for a really nice open air feel and there is a windscreen as well
But overall the cabin of the f-150 platinum
continues to be an excellent place to spend time
now of course there are new competitors on the block from Chevy and Ram but this cabin still feels very much up to date and
world-class
But anyways now I'll go ahead and hand it off to Mason we'll finish up the rest of the cabin
Alright so in the back of the 2019 f-150 platinum you're going to find a super spacious rear seat
The technical measurement comes in at forty three point six inches of rear legroom
Which is a ton and nobody is gonna have any trouble fitting back here
Now turning over to the door trim it is really nicely appointed
You do have a leather padding where your armrest
Above it is a nice grain plastic you do have some more of that beautiful wood trim as well as your power window
Now below that since this is a truck after all you have plenty of storage
So you have a little bend here as well as a larger bend down here in it coupled
Now that seats himself since this is a truck as well it does
float right up and
That does give you plenty of space back here as you can see we hit our tripod?
which is a almost its full extension all the way across through here and
You know if you leave this area open you could probably fit like two bicycles back here it's crazy
and to fold it down just grab it to them and
I do, also want to mention on the Platinum you do have these rear inflatable seat bones
Now to get in the Platinum does also have the power running board so it's really easy just stand on those and grab this
Now in the middle we do have plenty of stuff going on since this is the fully loaded model
so
We do have two cupholders up top and down below that
We do have two air vents as well as tons of connections so starting out you have two charging USB ports
Above that you have a 12-volt outlet
and beside that you have a household stop outlet in
addition to that two-stage heated rear seats are standard on the Platinum trim
Now coming over to the middle we do have a nice leather wrapped armrest
it's very soft and the end you do have some cup holders
Note the top we also have the optional twin panel moonroof
Which really helps air out the cabin and it makes it feel very spacious back here
And off to the side we do have an LED light a coat hook in a nice headline
Now like I mentioned previously the f-150 SuperCrew has a enormous rear seat so behind. Drew's position
I have about two or three feet of space
Which is insane and my feet can happily slide up under the seat
You have plenty of room I can stretch almost fully out so that's just how much space this thing has and sliding over
even with the seat all the way back I still have a good eight to ten inches of rear legroom and
once again my feet can't slide easily up under the seat
So overall the rear seat of the f-150 platinum is a wonderful place to spend time
It has every luxury feature you could ever imagine or one in the truck and it's super spacious so everyone will be comfortable
We will talk about the pricing here in a minute
Now of course the passenger seat is the same design as the front so I do have platinum branding as well as a nice
perforated design
and it is also 10-way power adjusting with four-way power lumbar support
Now in front of the passenger since this is the loaded platinum model we have a stitched dashboard it's very soft
Down below that we have a little storage as well as a good sized. Glovebox
Now both that we do have a Sun Visor with a LED lighting as well as a mirror and it does also extend and attach
But anyway guys that sums up all I have to talk about in the rear areas
So now let's go ahead and take a look at the powertrain and do a test strength
Alrighty so let's go ahead and talk about this vehicles different powertrains there are several different ones to pick between
This platinum we'll start out with your five liter v8 and that makes 395 horsepower and 400 pound-feet of torque
now the vast majority of buyers opt for the optional 3.5 liter EcoBoost v6 engine
That is twin turbocharged and that makes
375 horsepower but
470 pound-feet of torque
additionally there is a third option and that is your new Power Stroke diesel that just rolled out late last year and
that makes 250 horsepower and
440 pound feet of torque
Regardless of your engine choice you have a 10 speed automatic transmission and your choice between two and four wheel drive
Now obviously I'm not going to talk about all of the different combinations because there are times
But this particular model, which is our 3.5
Liter EcoBoost v6 with four-wheel, drive and that's going to get 17 City 23 Highway 19 combined
But anyways let's go ahead and take this on a quick spin
All righty so getting up to speed in the 2019 f-150 with the three and a half litre EcoBoost
Power feels really good I have to say I'm very impressed
You know most things that are big they feel
Terribly slow to get up to speed you know just because even if it has a lot of power or whatever it just is
usually not enough
but this
With the aluminum body you know it's not as heavy as the rivals and then the three and a half litre EcoBoost really scoots
Lots of torque - so you really get that sensation of speed that pushing you back in the seat
As far as cruising along how the transmission behaves it seems to behave quite well
You know it's the tenth speed automatic
But it doesn't seem too much different from a lower amount of speeds an eighth or a six-speed Automatic it
Keeps track of what it's doing pretty, well it doesn't seem to get confused or anything like that
So not only are we really impressed with the powertrain especially with this EcoBoost engine but we're also very impressed with
Basically how this car rides so this is a platinum so it has a very distinct mission to be comfortable and very luxurious
And I have to say it delivers on that we've been in a lot of luxury
SUVs you know Cadillac Escalade those type of vehicles and
they're big and they feel like this and this is a lot less expensive and it feels really
quite comfortable in here like the suspension you can tell it's dampened to be very comfortable
and you know just riding along I'm very comfortable in here you feel like you're the king of the road and that is what a
lot of people are looking for especially in the platinum f150
Yeah and as far as a body roll of course there is you know plenty because it is a very big truck but it's not
Really bad it's not, something that's going to be sickening it's not a bouncy
Type of deal it's just something it's just a matter of feeling
fairly big
Now the last thing we can talk about here I guess is the fuel economy
Normally we don't get to talk about this but it looks like someone has actually been driving this model for 188 miles
And so far the cars reporting they've averaged 15.4 miles per gallon I
mean, is that excellent no but that's not too far from the epa estimate and we don't know exactly how they were driving I'm going
to assume probably pretty aggressively it's really
when you have this type of power on tap it's really enjoyable too you know you want to use it so
With as with all turbo engines if you're it heavy
Heavily in the throttle all the time then you're gonna lose of course some of your efficiency benefit
but the big thing about the turbos is that if you want to drive more efficiently then they will match you know
what you want to do
but overall I have to say there's a good reason why for itself so many of these trucks every year I
Mean this is the type of vehicle that can get work done
You know during the day and then this is you can go out on a town that
fashionably and
with your family very comfortable vehicle
This is just that this is just a great
all-round vehicle there's really nothing that the f-150 can't do especially
when you equip it and a high-end room with your luxurious platinum I
mean, heck you have more space than a Mercedes s-class in the backseat and
Almost as many features as well so you really cannot beat the Platinum
f150 or really any f150 for that matter
Well guys we enjoyed watching the first in-depth look at the 2019 Ford f-150 platinum
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