Ford's CEO wants to make a performance ute

[DeluxeStang]

https://www.carscoops.com/2026/03/ford-performance-ute-revival/

That sounds pretty promising. Just for fun, I sketched up and did some AI renderings of what I would want something like a next gen ranchero to look like. The thing with utes I wanted to improve on was the fact that most of them look like Frankenstein vehicles. There's no design cohesion, it'll be a really sleek mustang coupe front end, with a 90 degree vertical cut behind the cab. Or it'll be a really boxy truck design with like a fastback roofline.

Neither of those look all that good to me. So I imagined a new style of ute with muscle car design, where it uses a sail pillar behind the cab to emulate the fastback roofline of something like a mustang. From a distance, it just looks like a good looking coupe, then you see the truck bed and you're like "That's awesome".

Far too many vehicles expect owners to compromise, but I feel like a ute that looked like a great looking coupe, but also had a bed for when you needed to haul something would be a really nice blend of style and practicality.

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[Starship Enterprise]

Looks good but hard to see a bed in the sketches.

I always thought the Holden Maloo was kinda cool.

 

[LouG]

That's a ute?

 

[MaddNomad]

Farley’s son being a fan of Falcon utes is interesting in itself. Kid likes funky performance vehicles.

 

[steveo1960]

Ute?
What's a "ute" ?

 

[JimC]

Ute?
What's a "ute" ?

 

[DeluxeStang]

Looks good but hard to see a bed in the sketches.

I always thought the Holden Maloo was kinda cool.

To be fair, that's by design. It would still be something with a 4 or 5 ft bed in theory, but using a sail pillar to sell the coupe look even more. Kinda like what the cyber truck does, but in a way that's actually attractive.

 

[Westphal]

Looks good but hard to see a bed in the sketches.

I always thought the Holden Maloo was kinda cool.

Pontiac almost had a version of that, although supposedly it was going to have a stupid name like Pontiac ST.

 

[agreywolfe]

Ford did have the FPV based on the Falcon...just sayin...2 birds one stone...V8 ute and a V8 sedan...

 

[robvas]

Nobody is going to buy one

 

[BoostRabbitGT]

Farley has been saying a lot of stuff over the years about cars coming back to their lineup. I'm still waiting for something to actually get made and sold in dealerships.

 

[MaddNomad]

Ford did have the FPV based on the Falcon...just sayin...2 birds one stone...V8 ute and a V8 sedan...

That’s what I’m saying, Farley should’ve drove a Falcon while he was at it.

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