Ford introduces first-ever 2027 F-150 Carhartt Edition after Super Duty debut
Ford is adding a first-ever 2027 F-150 Carhartt Edition, a collaboration the company says goes well beyond a badge or a color swap.
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What Happened
Ford is introducing the first-ever 2027 F-150 Carhartt Edition, after recently debuting the 2027 Ford Super Duty Carhartt earlier this year. The F-150 is the heart of Ford's F-Series lineup, which Ford calls America's best-selling truck for 49 years. Ford says the project goes well beyond a badge or color swap: every material, texture and stitch was intentionally chosen to reflect core values the two brands share.
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Ford F-Series, based on 1977-2025 CY industry-reported total sales
Carhartt is founded in Detroit, creating durable clothing for hardworking people, originally making workwear for railroad workers.
Carhartt supplies rugged gear to Ford factory workers, roots that date back to that period.
Ford debuts the 2027 Ford Super Duty Carhartt, the sibling project to the new F-150 edition.
Ford says F-150 and Super Duty customers value very similar things — both work hard and both take pride in it — but for F-150 owners that pride shows up just as often off the clock as on it. Ford points to the after-hours events owners bring their trucks to and the community they show up for: helping a neighbor move, coaching little league, or working on a baseball field for those kids. Carhartt reflects that duality, Ford argues, because it is not a uniform worn to survive the shift but an identity chosen to wear off the clock, a choice Carhartt customers have been making for over a century.
- The two-tone breakup mimics the construction lines of a Carhartt jacket or bib, with a yoke, a seam and a contrast panel built with the same durability and strengthened with Carhartt's signature triple stitch.
- The seats wear the Carhartt logo and its story: grey on the seats and the material construction reflects toughness shared with Super Duty, while brown carries the warmth and authenticity of the workwear that inspired the design.
- The floormat texture is inspired by the bottom of Carhartt's new tool bag, a detail Ford says is often missed because of its location.
- That texture carries through to the fender badge, so the relationship between inside and outside is a shared surface rather than just a color story.
- The exterior graphics intentionally echo the same treatment as the Super Duty sibling, telling the story that both trucks belong to one family built on the same values and honesty of materials.
“The Ford F-150 Carhartt truck resonates with me personally because it reflects the same arc of my own journey, from my grandfather's life as a blacksmith at the forge to my work today as a designer.”
In the designer's account, the hardest discipline was not deciding what to add but knowing what to leave out, with the goal of creating a vehicle whose quality you can both feel and see. Ford says it kept the core values of both brands close, serving the same community and speaking the same design language, and let that overlap do the talking without ever being loud. The work is described as honest materials, purposeful textures and decisions that ran like threads from a grandfather's forge to the designer's hands today.
Why this matters
The F-150 Carhartt Edition extends Ford's Carhartt collaboration beyond the Super Duty truck that debuted earlier this year, offering buyers of Ford's F-Series pickups a workwear-themed choice. Ford says every design decision was made with its hard-working community in mind, and that the two brands share a commitment to supporting hardworking customers.
Terms in This Story
- duck canvas
- A tightly woven, durable cotton fabric commonly used in workwear such as jackets and bib overalls.
- triple stitch
- A reinforced sewing technique that runs three parallel lines of thread to make a seam stronger.
- Super Duty
- A line of heavier-duty Ford trucks positioned alongside the F-Series pickups.
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