Rendered Speculation: 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty looks beefy, more modern
Armed with the latest sets of spy photos and insider information, our friends over at PickupTrucks.com have created an illustrated rendering of what they think the 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty will look like. It's definitely bolder and more masculine, which is the direction that the Blue Oval seems to be taking with its heavy haulers over the last few generations, and it appears to take its basic inspiration from the F-250 Super Chief concept from the 2006 Detroit Auto Show.
Under that bulging hood will reportedly sit either a 6.2-liter gasoline-fed V8 engine or Ford's newly-developed 6.7-liter Scorpion diesel V8, the pair of which are new engines that replace the existing 5.4-liter Triton and 6.4-liter Powerstroke. Interestingly, both of these new powerplants will reportedly be paired exclusively with automatic transmissions.
[Source: PickupTrucks.com]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
ronEbear 10:31AM (3/26/2009)
queefy
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Mazda FTW! 10:33AM (3/26/2009)
I love it. But with such sharp angles, it's starting to look almost...dare I say...Silverado-ish.
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C.W. 10:42AM (3/26/2009)
what!?!? Silverado!?!?
It looks more like the Tonka concept which was probably the coolest truck concept ever... the fact Ford has UNIQUE styling with their trucks is what makes them so sweet.... not to mention capability over competition....
this rendering is very 'Tonka-ish' if anything.
Jsams4131 10:37AM (3/26/2009)
"Interestingly, both of these new powerplants will reportedly be paired exclusively with automatic transmissions."
just saying but why is it interesting that these powerplants are coming with automatic trans? I dont think ive seen a super duty or any modern heavy duty truck with anything but an automatic..
--Please dont make that thing bigger than it already is, that baby takes up a solid lane of traffic already.
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Yikes 10:40AM (3/26/2009)
Please Ford
Make the Grills much larger.
You need a lot more chrome all over the vehicle.
Arumage 10:58AM (3/26/2009)
If you look up the spyshots for the new Scorpion diesel going into this thing, you'd realize the need for the large grill. The radiator is so large that it had to be tilted back to fit under the hood.
http://fordnewsblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/390/
BoneHeadOtto 10:45AM (3/26/2009)
Im not sure if i need a TT or a Super Duty
seriously what is with these names.
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Jsams4131 10:55AM (3/26/2009)
lmao whats wrong with the SUPER CHIEFFFF and the SCORPION V8?? sounds so corny imo
and TT for the win, i'd love to drive any new audi period.
Steve Lopez 11:15AM (3/26/2009)
OK. Nice truck, but, how about putting some money and style into the Ranger series.
Give it the same tough truck look, more efficient engines, including a turbo diesel and watch the sales go up!
Come on this is easy stuff FORD!!!
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George 12:18PM (3/26/2009)
Sure, because money grows on trees...
carguy 11:28AM (3/26/2009)
Yeah - it needs to be bigger, have more shiny chrome, loud V8 noises and have a hood higher than Everest to better enable my empowerment fantasies and mask my deep feelings of inadequacy.
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Tagg 12:50PM (3/26/2009)
Really man? I think people who make comments about maksing "deep feelings of inadequacy" are just trying to hide their own.
It's a work truck and it needs a higher hood to fit the diesel engines that power them and the radiators that cool them. Trucks like this are what farmers use to move livestock, haul fertilizer and tow various trailers all in an effort to feed us. Contractors use these trucks to build the homes we live in. Fire and rescue use them to save us from car accidents and the like.
I don't know a single person who buys a Super Duty or HD pick up to cover up for their inadequacies or as a daily driver. They buy them to provide a service of some kind. If you bought one for a daily driver you would never buy another.
Also, how is driving a big truck any less "manly" than driving a Porsche or any other high horsepower CAR? Does a 600 hp Corvette or a 300 hp compact car like a STI or Evo make you an adequate man?
Timsvtgen1 1:43PM (3/26/2009)
did something bigger than 8800 gvwr Punch your grandmother or something at one point? Is that why you hate on it?
John 8:37AM (3/27/2009)
My father (48 yr old software company CEO/rich guy/horse trainer/marathon runner) has a plain green base XL '08 F250 SD which is his DD... damn thing look so purpose built... then you see it pull into a business complex, and a guy in a $3k suit hops out ready to talk to Private Equity firms about whatever it is Private Equity firms talk about.
...only occasionally does he slip into work in his '05 Caddy DHS with that unnerving mirage paint scheme.
A rare breed, yes. lol
The truck is the spiritual successor to his red '94 F350 XL 5.8/5spd manual which was always a tight riding truck since it was rarely over-beaten. I put the most wear & tear on it in the 55k our family owned it ('93-'99)... I put a burnout-filled redline-smacking gear grinding 10k on it, hauled a lot of sawdust and drove it with a big full water tank in the bed a lot of the time (1997, I was 19, it was my DD for a few months while my truck was being built).
This new truck.. heck he hardly goes over the speed limit in it. He puts his cup of tea on the tranny tunnel for his 40 minute commute over dirt roads and other crap driving surfaces, and it doesn't budge.
Mind you, on the quarter horse farm it does a bit of work, but it hasn't had a 5th wheel hitch installed (I think the old man thinks the 5.4 etc couldn't handle a horse trailer with some horses in it... even though he got along fine in the early '80''s with a Federal Emissions-crippled '77 rust brown 2wd Chevy dually with a 454.
Except for him, every other SD owner I've known or seen takes their truck to the limit regularly.
lol my neck just got a lil' red. I'm gonna go out to my garage & fondle my Maxima now.
Gregg 11:53AM (3/26/2009)
That illustration is so lame. The 2011 is going to look like the 1999 model with yet anotehr new front clip. He drew it as if Ford planned to change the look more than the grill and lights. For the last couple of restylings, it has been all about SuperChief cues, according to the Ford press releases. The SuperDuty still looks nothing like the SuperChief concept and it won't look any more like it than it does now, until Ford invests in a full restyle--one that goes beyond tweaking the front clip
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John 8:38AM (3/27/2009)
I do not think the current-gen Super Duty is just a front-clip update. A lot more changed than just that.
Gregg 8:50AM (3/27/2009)
Well of course there have been more changes than the front clip since 1999. I was talking about the body panels...the styling: Same cab, same box, same windows, doors, windshield. A new grill and surround is not going to make it look any more like the SuperChief. When the 2008 clip was added, they also touted its resemblance to the SuperChief. Instead it resembles the 1999 SuperDuty with a more massive grill. Because that is all the new styling (2004, 2008, 2011) is. Under the sheet metal is a different story.
Steve Lopez 12:44PM (3/26/2009)
Well, why doesn't Ford update the Ranger series? Doesn't have to have all that flash, but, if that's what the customers wants. Give it to them.
It needs to be mproved and then it can sell well.
Ford should also think of a smaller compact pick up as well.
The is a market for it. If someone builds one.
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Farmboy 1:56PM (3/26/2009)
Ford has achieved economy of scales with the Ranger. They don't need to sell them. Ford makes money selling them, but doesn't loose money not selling them. Ford does not need to pay off the equipment used to build Ranger, just the people who do. Plus they still make decent sales, especially right now with gas prices and the Ranger is the most fuel-efficient truck sold in America. The local dealer had about 30 on lot, in less than a month, he was down to about 3 XL's. Now when Ranger is cancelled in the US around 2011, there is heavy speculation that part of Mulally's plan is to bring over the World Ranger from Thailand and Europe. But honestly, Rangers are actually decent-looking and durable trucks.
hwyhobo 1:20PM (3/26/2009)
Please, Ford, make it taller, and make the sides higher. I can still reach inside (barely). I want to use a ladder. Please.
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