January 06, 2015
Alisa Priddle

What started as a handful of engineers on a feasibility mission grew to more than 1,000 working to create the new 2015 Ford F-150 with an aluminum body and a number of other new technologies.

The fact-finding began in 2008 for a truck that would reach dealerships now. It was a longer gestation than normal for a new vehicle because the transformation of the truck and the plants that make it was so extensive.

The feat made chief engineer Pete Reyes and the many F-150 teams behind the project the winner of the Detroit Free Press Automotive Leadership Award for engineering and technology, as chosen by a panel of independent judges. Reyes has since been appointed Ford's director of global commercial vehicles, based in London, effective Jan. 1.

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Detroit Free Press