Freezing Ford Vehicles in Florida

Aug. 17, 2015

Every year, Ford Motor Co. brings a bevy of prototype vehicles to the McKinley Climatic Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base, located in the Florida panhandle, for extreme cold-weather testing - getting temperatures down as low as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit in a span of just 10 hours, all in spite of the muggy summer heat just outside the laboratory's doors. Video courtesy of Ford Motor Co.

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