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Ford reinvented the bestselling vehicle in America by making the F-150 out of aluminum to cut weight. This is how you make a revolutionary truck.

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Tom Fowlks Ford reinvented the bestselling vehicle in America by making the F-150 out of aluminum to cut weight. This is how you make a revolutionary truck. View Gallery 20 Photos Tom Fowlks 1 of 20 The new 2015 Ford F-150 Tom Fowlks 2 of 20 Rolls of high-grade aluminum that will go into the truck Tom Fowlks 3 of 20 A crane operator at aluminum maker Alcoa's Davenport Works Tom Fowlks 4 of 20 Alcoa's furnaces melt aluminum to be poured into molds that form giant ingots, bars that then go into the mill for rolling. Tom Fowlks 5 of 20 Alcoa aluminum plant Tom Fowlks 6 of 20 An ingot rolls into the hot mill Tom Fowlks 7 of 20 Alcoa aluminum plant Tom Fowlks 8 of 20 Alcoa aluminum plant Tom Fowlks 9 of 20 Alcoa workers inspect the F-150's bed Tom Fowlks 10 of 20 Aluminum rolls at Alcoa Tom Fowlks 11 of 20 Scrap aluminium is 100 percent recycled Tom Fowlks 12 of 20 Leaving Alcoa in a 2015 F-150, towing some of that aluminum Tom Fowlks 13 of 20 Freshly stamped F-150 parts—door frames, fenders, hoods—wait to be sent to Ford's Dearborn Truck Plant Tom Fowlks 14 of 20 F-150 parts headed to Ford's Dearborn Truck Plant Tom Fowlks 15 of 20 The new truck has a 360-degree camera that's handy when you've got a 20-foot trailer Tom Fowlks 16 of 20 The F-150's tow graphics show whether the truck is level Tom Fowlks 17 of 20 Weighing in at a truck stop Tom Fowlks 18 of 20 Stacks of aluminum parts Tom Fowlks 19 of 20 Rolls of aluminum at Ford Tom Fowlks 20 of 20 This is it: the lightest full-size truck body on Earth Next 10 of the Most Iconic Ford F-150s Ever Advertisement - Continue Reading Below

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