America’s bestselling vehicle could have a billion-dollar fuel economy problem
The Ford F-150, part of the F-Series family of models that has ruled America’s sales chart for decades, is the target of a $1.2 billion lawsuit filed by owners of 2018 and 2019 models who argue they’re paying too much for gasoline. Plaintiffs filed a class-action lawsuit in a Michigan court accusing Ford of falsifying the popular truck’s fuel economy figures. Hagens Berman, the Seattle-based law firm representingF-150owners,asserted thatFord rigged fuel economy tests to overestimate the truck’s highway gas mileage by 15%, and its city gas mileage by 10%....