We’ve seen a few articles regarding the 2015 F-150 and its pricing. In short the pricing of the truck is increasing only $395 across the board for several of its most popular sellers (although higher trims will increase more). That’s in-spite of the fact that the new truck has a body constructed entirely of lightweight military grade aluminum, with a curb weight in some instances of 700 pounds less than the model it replaces.

It is no secret that Ford makes big money off its truck line. Pickups in general tend to have large profit margins, and that left us wondering about a few things with regard to the weight of the 2015 Mustang.

Two weeks ago we reported about the weight changes to the 2015 Mustang, with the GT gaining 87 pounds over the previous generation. Ford is using aluminum for the hood, front fenders, and some chassis components, but it’s still gaining weight. Some of this Ford blames on the technology they’re packing into the new Mustang.

Ford has in-fact said the body in white is lighter than the previous model, its all the other stuff packed into that body that increases the weight. The announcement for the F-150 got the gears turning in our differentials and wondering “Why couldn’t Ford apply the same technology to save weight in the Mustang.”

There’s no easy answer to this question. The F-150 is a large truck, even in its smallest configuration there are still acres of sheet metal. However, with only about 1/3 of the new Mustang constructed from aluminum there’s room to drop more weight? If the new F-150 weighs potentially 700 lbs less, even though substantially larger than the Mustang, why couldn’t a more aluminum-intesive Mustang lose 250-300 pounds? A stick-shfit ’15 GT will weigh 3,705 pounds, a ’15 F-150 could potentially weigh close to 4,000 pounds (*based on’14 curb weights).

With the release of pricing data for the new F-150 the excuse can no longer be that it would simply cost too much to produce an all aluminum bodied Mustang. We’d gladly pay $300-$400 more for that car over the outgoing version, that’s far less than trying to DIY the weight loss at home. So we’ll be asking these questions of Ford engineers and staff when we finally get behind the wheel. Until then we can only hope that the improved horsepower to weight ratios are enough to keep the Mustang galloping ahead of the pack.