So that means that when a little gap shows up in traffic one lane over, I can just shoot in instantly and fill it. I didn't actually anticipate liking this feature as much as I do in traffic, but it's actually kind of nice to drive slowly without having to constantly move your foot back and forth from brake to throttle to break the throttle and just be able to leave your foot on the accelerator and have the vehicle sort of handle all that for you.Īnother nice thing about the Lightning's electric powertrain is instant torque. That means you can do all the accelerating and all the braking through one pedal. SPEAKER 1: And like many other electric vehicles, the Lightning also comes with a one-pedal-drive mode. So it's easy to have a conversation in the cabin. And it does a pretty good job of keeping outside noise outside as well. Of the nice things about the Lightning's electric powertrain is that it helps to keep the cabin pretty serene, so you don't get any engine noise. So from here on my perch atop the traffic, I can look out way forward and I can see that I'm not really going to be going anywhere anytime soon at all. One of the other nice things about driving these full-sized trucks around is you get a really commanding seating position. And there's nothing worse than sitting in traffic than being sweaty and sitting in traffic. Seriously, these things are ballistic grade. The F-150 lineup has some of the best seat coolers around. But the real exciting thing is that we have front ventilated seats. Our Lightning has heated seats front and rear, which is nice. It just makes it a little bit easier to use. So this center volume knob here can actually transform and allow you to control things like the fan speed or to change the temperature. The other nice thing is that our F-150 Lightning has the update that our long-term Mach-E is lacking. So it's kind of easy to add or take away as much fan speed as you want. Ford actually gives you three different automatic fan settings. And in the F-150, seats are generally pretty supportive, not quite as nice as the ones that you get in like the Ram 1500, let's say, but I'm pretty comfortable. And as you can see, tons of headroom here for both the front and the back seat. One of the benefits, though, of a full-sized truck is you get a full-sized cabin. They really like feeling like they take up a lot of space in the lane. Although, that's sort of a feature for some people. And even when you're driving here on the road, it feels really big. The Lightning is a full-sized truck, which makes it less than ideal for something like parking. In our stuck-in-traffic test we're going to cover four different categories- comfort, cabin features and technology, driver aids, and my favorite- the wild card. They're family vehicles, they're daily drivers, and that means they need to be as adept at handling Los Angeles traffic as they are at towing or hauling. These days, people use these full-sized trucks for everything. Now, you might think that something like a Honda Civic or another kind of sedan is more of a commuter car, but that's not the case. It's kind of a do-everything truck that we've put through a whole bunch of different stuff from pulling things that are way too heavy to putting up some really impressive numbers on our test track.īut one of the things that we haven't done with this vehicle or haven't done and shown you at least is to see how it handles the daily commute. And this is a member of our long-term fleet, and it's one that we really like. ![]() And ever since I started here at Edmunds, I've sort of had this "say yes" policy that I'm currently very much reconsidering. Now, you may be asking how I ended up here. Most of the time, it's in a situation like this. As cool as those things are, that's not how most people use their vehicles. 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