Found the following comments in the article on pickuptruck.com related to the new 2011 Super Duty very interesting:

The famous King Ranch trim package gets a few changes. The iconic Castano orange leather seats can be swapped for black ones. The interior can also be equipped with black carpeting in addition to the traditional camel color.

Black is a more contemporary color, Brewer said, and it hides dirt better. Don’t worry about hot, black seats in summer; cooled seats will be standard on the KR truck.

Link to the full article: http://special-reports.pickuptrucks....uper-duty.html

Can't wait to see how that looks!!!

 

im not sure i will like that! love my KR! but we will have to wait for the pics to come out.

 

i can't wait to see it. i have always hated tan interior (which i have again) but love the kingranch seats i got. if i had the money i would be all over one with black interior

 

Black is sexy as hell, but it ain't western! And, if it ain't western, it's crrraaap!

- Jack

 

hahaha!

 

I'll have to see it. If its distressed latigo-type black with all the blems, well then count me in!

 

Black seats do not seam very KRish...

 

I feel like Ford is going to do the same thing they did to the Mustang from 69 to 70. SIN! Stop Changing the leather!

 

I'd pass on that. I agree with HKnFORD.... If just dont seem like King Ranch to me..

 

Even more odd to me is that they still called them Castano leather... Castano leather hasn't been around since 2007 on the Super Duty... they switched to Chapparal in 2008.

I feel confident that this move - again - away from a brown color is a direct response to warranty claims due to folks buying a KR and not knowing how to care for it. It has long since been our opinion here that the move from Castano to Chapparal leather was due to exactly this... Black would be easier to maintain due to one simple thing -- it doesn't show dirt nearly as bad.

I'm with the rest of the group... this isn't a KR. If someone wants a HD edition, get a HD edition. Further, if you want to offer a black interior, put it on the FX4 (ala: f150).

While I'm all about options and choices, I've had two KR's (a 2001 and a 2005 currently)at this point in time and it's my opinion that Ford is really moving away from what the KR brought to the truck market. Disappointing...

 

Agreed !!

For all the same reasoning.

Someone at Ford needs a good kicking for a stupid decision that has just not been thought through.

 

Relax everyone. I just read the black leather option is actually the Queen Ranch. The black leather will be stretched really, really tight on the cushions with multi-colored cording and stitching. Sales will start in San Fransisco and Hollywood, where they anticipate sales to skyrocket. The pink leather option tanned with a new process that smells like baby powder has been sandbagged for another year until the 1980's Iris color is reintroduced.

On the real note, I concurr with all. Give me Castano, or give my vinyl!

 

@ Smoke!