General Motors’ crosstown rival, Ford Motor Company, is currently hammering away on an all-new generation for its F-Series pickup truck. The next-gen Ford F-150 is expected to drop for the 2021 model year, and now, new leaked images recently posted to F150gen14.com shed some light on a few of the truck’s various cabin features.
2021 Ford F-150 Lariat interior
2020 Ford-150 Lariat interior
As reported by our sister publication, Ford Authority, the 2021 Ford F-150 looks as though it will offer a completely revamped interior layout, which includes a larger infotainment screen sitting at the top of the center stack. Judging by the leaked photos, which appear to be the mid-range Lariat trim level, the new screen is between 11 and 12 inches in terms of the diagonal measurement, with the lower media and HVAC system controls now set in a new horizontally oriented layout.
Below the center stack controls is a storage bin and a pair of USB ports, including a USB-A port and a newer USB-C port.
Critically, the new 2021 Ford F-150 also appears to come with a new shifter design. The shifter sports leather and polished trim, as well as a button on the stalk that folds the shifter down into the center console. The “stow-away” shifter could be useful for those buyers that need a flat surface for resting a laptop or writing on some paper.
When it comes to market, the all-new Ford F-150 will once again go head-to-head with the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. As we covered previously, General Motors collectively sold more full-size trucks than Ford in Q1 of 2020, with the Silverado and Sierra outpacing the F-Series with a combined 197,743 units, versus the 186,562 units of the F-Series delivered in the same time period.
As we exclusively reported back in August, the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra will get completely revamped interiors, which we now know will arrive for the 2022 model year. According to our sources, both trucks will take inspiration from the all-new 2021 Chevrolet Tahoe, 2021 Chevrolet Suburban, and 2021 GMC Yukon with regard to the cabin changes, while still remaining appropriately “truck-like.”
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Better connectivity interface and large screen for better tow truck GPS location to find you. Because, you know it’s a Ford….
For Odd Repair Descriptions………..
Tow truck? Or, fire department?
RAM CALLED, they want their grill back! Stow away shifter, the answer to the question nobody asked.
I’m curious why Ford has been hellbent on putting a crossbar on their grilles when that has been Chevy’s trait for DECADES. Ford had a unique design with with its three horizontal segments but is gradually drifting away from that and copying others. Grrr.
What? Ever watch Sanford and Son?? Fred Sanford’s 1951 Ford had a cross bar grill.
“You big dummah!”…
Hmmm, will everyone complain that this large center consol has a lot of plastic like they did on the 2019 gm twins? Or will ford get a pass because they sell more to fleets to boost their numbers? I honestly still prefer the look of the GM interiors.
Everyone boost fleet sales, even GM recently got called out for it a couple of years ago.
Gotta agree with you Jake. F-series interiors have always had a whiff of Tupperware or as someone else recently put it, they look like they are designed by a carpenter. I’m not impressed.
Have to agree about the plastics. Doesn’t look that impressive. Also, all the radio and HVAC controls look to be so small, low and hidden on the dash. Will be interesting in seeing this once released.
I’m hoping the console-as-standard has not metastacised across to pickups as well.
Looks like a sea of black plastic… not promising. Lincoln interiors have gotten so good while Ford interiors have just not been up to par. The new Escape and Explorer have hilariously low quality materials and construction.
So can we get a button to turn the screen off? Without having to go through settings while driving down the road.
Looks good for entry level luxury. Can’t wait to see the King Ranch, Platinum and Limited.
I wish people would stop saying Ford is number 1 because of Fleet sales. Really, it’s like complimenting Ford and saying more people choose Ford to get the job done.
More people didn’t “choose” Ford over Chevy though. Chevy has pulled out because fleets use professional negotiators to knock 15-20000 of the msrp of the vehicle in exchange for a purchase of 1000 vehicles. The choice was between Ford and ram for these buyers and ram doesn’t negotiate as yard with fleets as Ford does. Chevy could have gotten those sales if they wanted to.
Jake, the unbelievable discounts were before the auto industry bailout took place. GM, Ford, and FCA all push fleet sales now days because they are profitable. Before the bailout they all lost money on fleet sales and we know that because we had to bail them out. As a matter of fact GM was the last to be called out for the old practice of selling fleet vehicles. Head of GM Mary Bara announced that GM was going to go away from fleet sales and demand more for their products. Shortly after Ford announced they were going on a different path and getting rid of sedans that were not selling well. When GM heard the news of Ford moving away from sedans, GM jumped on the opportunity with both feet. Mary Barra took to the podium and told shareholders and media members that she was confident Ford owners would come to GM for a sedan. Later she took to the podium once again and announced that GM sedan sales were up. It was later found that Dealer lots became bloated with inventory and GM dumped the cars onto rental lots. This drove down the value of the sedans and GM lost millions because automakers have to buy rental fleets back. GM is currently knocking 6k off of new 2020 trucks while Ford is only offering 3k. So your comment about Ford giving the best deal doesn’t make any sense.
It makes total sense, in that fleet discounts are not retail discounts…… Gm acutally didn’t loose money because fleets were buying vehicles at heavy discounts, they still made money in that segment due to volume, but they lost money because many regular truck buyers were buying slightly used fleet vehicles over new highly discounted retail vehicles…. that’s where GM was loosing money. they would sell a fleet vehicle for 20k off and loose a retail sale for 12k off. And yes, GM has pulled out of fleet sales for Trucks. They picked up fleet sales for cars and maintain SUV fleet sales with the suburban and traverse, but almost no fleet sales with trucks.
Before the bailout they lost money on fleet sales and it is well documented till this very day. GM does sell fleet trucks. GM has a website for fleet trucks. https://www.gmfleet.com/search-inventory/trucks
I’m pretty sure that button on the shifter is a reflection of a button behind it. The shifter stalk being chrome.
Booooobs
Interesting concept but I foresee a call to the dealership going like this: hi, I’m having a problem with my transmission. What seems to be the problem, well it’s stuck. Ok, so it’s stuck in gear , ahhh no it’s stuck down!
So while most quality vehicles are moving towards electronically actuated shifters via buttons, levers or knobs, Ford is keeping the ancient mechanical one but adding a folding hinge to it. That’s totally lame, just like the blow-molded plastic design of this interior.
Mechanical shifters do the job. Why add complexity? Fleet buyers want easy maintenance, and quick turnaround from the shop. Complexity, or “modern” often offers nothing in return. That was why many fleet buyers shunned the small pickups that had belt-driven camshafts. When a properly maintained engine can go 250,000 or more miles without anything but oil and plugs, they didn’t want fleet vehicles in shop at 75K for several hours of work a chain-drive cam never needs.
Leave complexity to the Germans.
Very fair point Gentle Grizzly; in light of that, instead of this silly fold down shifter, why not just move back to column-mounted shifter levers? Besides being “uncool” or 80s-like, having a 3-on-the-tree style (9-on-the-tree these days) are much more practical as they leave nothing protruding from your center console.
Well, if it wasn’t a Ford…
Looking at interior pictures seems to never tell the entire story, both good and bad. Given that is what we have to look at, there are a ton of buttons that probably do cool things, but you shouldn’t be driving and trying to navigate all of that at the same time. The interior I thought looked very similar to the current GM setup, just with a lot more going on. I am not sure I get the value of the fold over shifter. I sit my laptop on the center console of my GM trucks. and the height is near perfect. The only down side is I need to move the seat back for better ergonomics. I look forward to sitting in one of these new FORDs and see how it comes together.
The fold-over shifter is a gimmick for the “gee whiz” crowd. Meantime, you grab the lever on the steering column to select what you want. The gee-whiz crowd calls that passe. I call it something that does the job. My Chrysler has a dial. It works fine as well, and is just as out of the way. Not something I need to fold.
I’ve driven two Chrysler/Dodge vehicles with the dial and hate it because it does not have sufficient tactile response/bump-stops to shift from D to R without looking down. For the several days that I had the vehicles I must have tried to back up from neutral or park about a dozen times, lol. There are about a dozen better ways they could have designed a shifter knob, from using varying audible beeps to stronger positional-retent-points, to a longer travel from P to R than between D-N-R, etc.
I got used to mine fairly quickly. I’ve had two vehicles with it. I noticed that the 2019 has a bit more “resistance” to get to “L” than the 2018.
The very worst shifter I have encountered in the last several years was the Honda pushbuttons. VERY badly thought out. The “rocker” shifter in my 2013 Charger was bad enough that it ended up killing Someone Important, and so they were recalled and replaced.
Copying the ram I see good bye Ford hahaha