Tag: King Ranch

The XL, XLT, and Lariat are all engineered mostly for work. However, the King Ranch and Platinum are designed with comfort in mind. The base King Ranch with appearance Equipment Group Luxury 601A offers exterior features such as chrome three-bar grille and surround, chrome front bumper insert, and Caribou front bumper end caps, grille mesh […] More »

While I enjoyed working at Ford, there were some challenges. Here is one episode that still has me shaking my head, and this happened 16 years ago! I was an engineering supervisor. I had 10 engineers reporting to me, all working on developing transmission calibrations (“tunes”) for a certain transmission family. About this time there […] More »

If you can’t wait to to see the new aluminium Ford F-150 in person…we have the next best thing. An exclusive look at the new exterior paint colors that are available from Ford. Just like the SVT Raptor, Sunset, Vermilion Red, Kodiak Brown and Pale Adobe paints are no longer available for 2015. Instead you […] More »

The Tonight Show’s Fingers on a 4×4 contest has come to a close, ladies and gentlemen. Jimmy Fallon, the program’s host who lives and works in New York City, just had to have, of all vehicles, a 2015 Ford F-150 King Ranch.  (I guess entertainers wouldn’t be entertainers without a little eccentricity.)  He pitted 10 […] More »

Being the host of the Tonight Show has its obvious perks.  Powerful social connections,  world-wide fame,  and enough money to buy any vehicle. Including the 2015 Ford F-150 King Ranch. The program’s new host, Jimmy Fallon, wants one. Despite the fact that his show films in a metropolis as crowded and congested as New York […] More »

Is it hard to believe that the King Ranch line of trucks has been around for 15 years? How the time flies. In the year 2000, Ford was more likely to start building space shuttle than they were to build an aluminum bodied pickup truck. And yet here we are with a brand new King […] More »

Texas. If there’s any place that loves trucks more than the Lone Star State, I’ve never heard of it. Fitting then that Ford has decided to show off it’s 2013 King Ranch F-150 at their state fair. Presumably, with a bed full of hay and a trailer full of cattle. The King Ranch has traditionally […] More »