Hog wild

Good news for 'confused' hillbillys looking to express their rough tough manly stylings. As Ford release The Ford Harley-Davidson F-150.

Ford takes a F-150 SuperCab pickup and puts on a billet-style grille meant to evoke chopper brightwork, 22-inch forged aluminum wheels and plenty of Harley badges inside and out. Then slap a coat of "menacing Monotone Black" paint on it. It's the only F-150 that offers full-time all-wheel drive.

Although Harley have nothing to do with the car apart from draping their ubiquitous logo all over it, in many ways their bikes are a perfect match for the F150. Both boast 19th Century engineering (no really) and a NVH best described as agricultural.

With an endearing naivety, America is the only place left where folk think Harley-Davidsons are ridden by outlaw types, macho men evoking a spirit of the old west. An image that truck manufacturers like to tap into to make a sale too.

In the rest of the world a Harley is synonymous with City types having a crisis and flamboyant hair salon owners. It seems unlikely that Ford will bring the truck to Europe.