2017 Ford F-150 King Ranch Review

HISTORY LESSON: King Ranch And Ford Motor Company
The King Ranch, which sits near Kingsville, Texas, comprises 825,000 acres (more than 1,300 square miles). When you need to manage this much land and cattle, rugged trucks are a must. “King Ranch is built on the heritage, hard work and innovation of seven generations of King family descendants and employees, just like what Ford has built into its F-Series pickup trucks,” said King Ranch Chairman Jamey Clement. “It’s why we trust Ford as a genuine partner, and why we depend on a fleet of 260 Ford trucks to get the job done every day at King Ranch.” Actually, the King Ranch empire now has satellite locations in Florida, New Mexico and South Carolina, and run a fleet of “more than 350 Ford vehicles.”
Ford’s partnership with the ranch officially began in 1999, and Ford’s marketing department started leveraging the name on the 2001 King Ranch F-150 SuperCrew, then the most upscale model in the Ford F-150 lineup. It was also the industry’s first under-8,500-pound GVW full-size pickup truck with four full-size doors, and a full rear passenger compartment.
Designed to capture the ruggedness and bold attitude of this Texas holy land, the 2001 King Ranch F-150 came fully loaded along with dark brown saddle-grade Castaño leather on the seats - the seatback pockets even have flaps like saddlebags - and fancy carpeting on the floor.