The 2021 Ford F-150 gets new signature front LED lighting and possibly a sleeper seat option Photo: Ford
The 2021 Ford F-150 is set to break cover on Thursday, and it sounds like one of the cool new features it’ll offer is a sleeper seat. A source familiar with the next-generation F-150 told Reuters’ Ben Klayman that the truck will offer a lay-flat passenger seat, making it easy to take a cat nap on your lunch break.
“You can basically live in the truck,” the source told
Klayman.
Ford is expected to have focused mostly on interior refinements with the new F-150, and spy shots to this point suggest that the next-gen truck isn’t looking to reinvent the wheel when it comes to curb appeal. A shadowy teaser image that broke cover this week does show off the F-150’s new LED lighting signature, giving it a face closer to its larger Super Duty sibling.
Inside, however, Ford looks to make more revolutionary changes to the model with a significantly larger touch-screen display, a fully digital instrument cluster, and the rumored sleeper seat. The 2021 Ford F-150 will also offer over-the-air updates, which Reuters notes are part of Ford’s push to gain more commercial market share and cut warranty costs.
F-150 sleeper seat option part of ‘continuous innovation’
While capability and connectivity are the major focuses, the upgrades to the F-150 interior will be aimed at drivers who spend a lot of time in their trucks. Adding a feature like a lay-flat sleeper seat serves to make riding in the 2021 Ford F-150 feel more like sitting first class on an airplane.
“Customers are spending more and more time in their cabs,” Ford
Truck Group Marketing Manager Todd Eckert told
Automotive News. “They’re using them for work and recreation. We’ve
always talked about continuous innovation as an important part of how we go to
market. It’s part of what we’ve done.”
Ford could also detail its new F-150 hybrid
this coming week as part of the next-gen reveal. It’s rumored that the F-150
hybrid was scheduled to debut at the 2020 North American International Auto
Show, which would have taken place earlier this month. However, that
show was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
An all-electric
F-150 is also coming, but it’s more likely that Ford will hold a separate
debut for that truck at a date closer to its launch, which likely won’t be
until 2022.
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