Doubling Down as America’s Favorite Workhorse: The 2025 Ford F-150

The F-150 has been America’s best-selling truck for decades, with drivers turning to the Blue Oval for its reliability, capability, and exceptional value. The 2025 Ford F-150 continues that legacy, showcasing Ford’s success at designing a truck that works with you and for you to make life and every job easier on and off the road.

The 2025 F-150 accomplishes this in three key areas. First, its multi-engine lineup offers a broad range of power and capabilities that give the F-150 its brute strength. Second, its functional design improves the truck’s versatility. Third, the 2025 F-150’s advanced technologies heighten your situational awareness, whether navigating a trailer in reverse or cruising at highway speeds. Here’s a closer look at those three areas and why they seal the F-150’s fate as an exceptional, value-packed work partner.

Powertrains: A Broad Range of Power and Capabilities

The 2025 F-150’s six-engine lineup is a testament to Ford’s efforts to guarantee there’s a full-size workhorse for every performance need. With each engine paired with a smooth-shifting 10-speed automatic transmission, the F-150’s multi-engine lineup offers a broad range of power and capabilities. That range starts with Ford’s proven 2.7L EcoBoost turbocharged V6 and stretches to an exclusive supercharged engine that offers pure thrills in the driver’s seat.

Setting the Baseline: 2.7L EcoBoost Turbocharged V6

The 2025 F-150’s base powerplant is a 2.7L EcoBoost V6. The engine is an unsuspecting powerhouse with a dual overhead cam design, variable cam timing, and a port-fuel and direct-injection system. Its twin inter-cooled turbochargers deliver on-demand power, enhancing the F-150’s responsiveness and making an impressive 325 hp and 400 lb-ft of torque. This output yields a maximum payload of 1,785 pounds and a towing capacity of 8,400 pounds.

The Coyote Heartbeat: 5.0L V8

Ford’s Coyote engine is legendary and returns to the F-150’s powertrain lineup for 2025. The Coyote has twin independent variable camshaft timing and a port-fuel and direct-injection system. Ford ekes more power from the system by adding two injectors per cylinder, which pushes the Coyote to an output of 400 hp and 410 lb-ft of torque. With the increased hp and torque, the Coyote ups the F-150’s payload and towing capacities to 2,230 pounds and 12,900 pounds.

The 3.5L V6 Family: Turbocharged, High Output, and Hybrid

The 2025 F-150 offers three V6 options, each offering distinct appeal and capabilities. The 3.5L EcoBoost V6 is turbocharged and yields the F-150’s highest payload and towing capacities at 2,445 pounds and 13,500 pounds. This capability is courtesy of the engine’s output of 400 hp and 500 lb-ft of torque.

The 2025 F-150 Raptor fulfills its promise to satiate every need for speed, thanks to its high output 3.5L EcoBoost V6. Uniquely tuned to deliver extraordinary power, the powerhouse produces 450 hp and 510 lb-ft of torque. This output is enough to confidently tow loads up to 8,200 pounds and support a payload up to 1,410 pounds.

The 3.5L PowerBoost is one of the most talked-about powertrains in the F-150 lineup. The PowerBoost is a hybrid powertrain that gives F-150 drivers the best of both worlds–the capability of gas combustion and electric power to heighten efficiency. The combination is impressive, with the PowerBoost producing 430 hp and 570 lb-ft of near-instant torque. It’s also no slouch when it comes to hauling cargo, with a towing capacity of 11,200 pounds and a 1,735-pound payload.

The Supercharged Powerhouse: 5.2L High Output Supercharged V8

The F-150’s powertrain lineup ends with the most powerful high-performance engine in the truck’s history. The 5.2L High Output Supercharged V8 is engineered to exceed every expectation of performance and handling by transforming the F-150 into a legendary speed demon. The supercharged heartbeat manages this incredible feat, producing 720 hp and 640 lb-ft of torque for outstanding off-the-line acceleration and responsiveness. This engine is only available on the impressive Raptor R variant.

Design: Functional Elements to Enhance Versatility

The 2025 F-150 has outstanding payload and towing capacities, but more importantly, Ford recognizes there’s more to the full-size truck than numbers alone. Ford designs the F-150 with functional features that enhance your experience, from optimizing your control behind the wheel to improving how you access, load, and unload cargo in the bed. For 2025, the F-150 is more versatile than ever, thanks to a driver-inspired design.

This functional design starts behind the scenes with the F-150’s Adaptive Suspension. The automatic suspension continuously monitors its position relative to the terrain and the F-150’s speed, load, and steering input. By monitoring these components, the suspension constantly adjusts the shock absorbers to enhance your control in the driver’s seat. This control is especially critical when carrying or towing heavy loads.

Beyond the F-150’s Adaptive Suspension, many other functional elements are easy to spot. Depending on the trim, the 2025 F-150 features LED Dynamic Bending Headlamps that swivel up to 15 degrees to illuminate the path as you navigate a corner or turn. There’s also plenty of available lighting in the bed, where you’ll find one of the F-150’s most notable upgrades–the Pro Access Tailgate.

The Pro Access Tailgate offers greater accessibility into the F-150’s bed, putting you 19 inches closer to your cargo. While it can open like a standard tailgate, it also features a swinging gate with a 100-degree opening and three detent angles. This unique design makes accessing the cargo in the bed easy, even when hitched to a trailer.

The F-150’s new tailgate design leads to more advanced features like Pro Power Onboard. The available upgrade transforms the F-150 into a mobile power source that improves the truck’s functionality and versatility wherever you travel. With three output options––2.0kW, 2.4kW, and 7.2kW, the F-150 can power various work-related and recreational items, from a sander and television to an air compressor and microwave.

Technologies: Trailering, Cruising, and Off-Roading

The 2025 F-150 is a tech-savvy workhorse designed to give drivers the best of everything––outstanding performance, brute strength, and plenty of innovative features. The F-150’s innovative features stretch from Ford’s SYNC 4 infotainment system to a suite of trailering, cruising, and off-roading technologies that heighten your experience in the driver’s seat. How so?

When you drive an F-150, pulling a trailer no longer comes with a steep learning curve. Ford equips the 2025 F-150 with trailering-specific technologies like Pro Trailer Backup Assist, Pro Trailer Hitch Assist, a Blind Spot Information System with Trailer Coverage, and a Smart Trailer Tow Connector. These technologies simplify hitching up to, pulling, and driving with a trailer. For example, Pro Trailer Backup Assist makes navigating a trailer in reverse as easy as turning a knob in the intended direction as you watch the trailer’s position via the center display. Technologies like Pro Trailer Hitch Assist and Smart Trailer Tow Connector assist with hitching up to a trailer. Pro Trailer Hitch Assist takes over the F-150 steering, accelerating, and braking to align the truck with the trailer hitch.

The 2025 F-150 has an outstanding work ethic and the technologies to match, but it’s also well-equipped and ready for adventure. Depending on the trim and package, the F-150 can confidently venture off the pavement and help you answer the call of the wild. Ford guarantees as much by adding off-road-related elements via options like the FX4 package and Raptor trims. There are also numerous trail-ready technologies, like Ford’s Terrain Management System, which offers up to nine drive modes, including Off-Road, Rock Crawl, and Baja. Ford Trail Control with Trail 1-Pedal Drive is also integral to your experience on the trail, serving as a low-speed cruise control long after the pavement ends.

Ready for Work and Adventure

The 2025 F-150 continues to impress by delivering the work ethic expected of a Ford road warrior, innovative technologies, and functional design elements that create the perfect packaging. Ford answers the need for a well-rounded, full-size truck that exceeds expectations without forcing drivers to spend a small fortune. It’s an impressive balance that reflects why the F-150 has been an American favorite for decades.