Ford F-200 pick-up on the horizon
Early evidence points to the F-150 getting a more work-focused cab-chassis siblingThe Ford Motor Company has filed a new trademark application in the US for the ‘F-200’ nameplate, sending pick-up fans into a frenzy of speculation.
History suggests the nameplate will be applied to the back of a heavier-duty F-150, given the original F-150 was a beefier version of the F-100 before it took over as the default option, whereas the bigger products in Ford’s Super Duty line-up suggest it could even be a cab-chassis pick-up.
The Ford F-Series Super Duty line-up opens with the F-250 and goes all the way up to the mammoth F-600, the biggest cab-chassis Super Duty product available in any Ford market.
The emergence of a cab-chassis cousin for the F-150 would simultaneously bolster the already best-selling model’s appeal with more load-lugging capabilities and hypothetically offer those enhanced capabilities at a more accessible price than the next-size-up F-250.
In short, what we could be looking at is the groundwork for the first proper full-size pick-up workhorse given none of the current crop of F-150s, RAM 1500s or Chevrolet Silverado 1500s can carry 1000kg in their tubs.
The physical size of the vehicle and its tray, and its circa-4500kg towing capacity, would be more than enough to differentiate the F-200 from something like a cab-chassis Ranger, thereby avoiding any potential sales cannibalisation.
This of course is all speculation for the time being, given the trademark application only tells us the product being referred to is some sort of ‘motor vehicle’, inclusive of “gasoline and electric automobiles, pick-up trucks, sport utility vehicles” and their structural parts.
Ford is thereby keeping its options open when it comes to powertrain technology, which raises another interesting question: could we eventually see a battery-powered Ford F-200 Lightning cab-chassis?
In the short-term the answer seems like a resounding no, but the electric era is coming fast and such vehicles will be needed one day soon.
For now, the Ford F-150 (pictured here) will be officially released in Australia later this month in four V6 variants, but so far there’s no sign of any other derivatives like the electric F-150 Lightning and F-250 – let alone the freshly trademarked F-200, whatever form it takes.
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