Late-night comic and Ford F-150 proprietor Jimmy Fallon stunned staff who make the F-150 Lightning pickup throughout a cease in Detroit this month.
Fallon joined Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley at a monitor to check drive the battery-powered pickup and on the Rouge Electrical Car Middle to see it being constructed and pose for photographs with staff.
“I simply drove it 100 miles an hour,” the host of “The Tonight Present” stated in an interview with Detroit’s NBC affiliate, WDIV-TV. “Truthfully, it was in three seconds. I simply floored it, and you want fly again in your chair. Factor’s obtained some kick, man.”
Fallon — a former “Saturday Evening Dwell” star like Farley’s late cousin, Chris Farley — has talked up the F-150 Lightning a number of instances on his present. In Might, he created a music video known as “Junk in My Frunk” in regards to the truck’s spacious storage space underneath the hood.
“You’re so good, enjoyable and a badass,” Fallon, who additionally drove a Bronco and several other Mustangs throughout his go to, tweeted to Farley afterward. “Most significantly — you deal with your staff like household and I used to be so blissful to see all of it first hand.”