Yahoo Autos Never Forget The Ford Triton Concept, The Raddest F-150
The jump from the ninth-generation Ford F-150 to the tenth was jarring. It was when the Ford F-150 went from being a boxy truck with rounded edges to a truck that deliberately tried to look like a car. It was hit or miss at first, but it went on to be a best-seller, likely spurred on by the popularity of the four-door F-150, which ushered in a new era of trucks as family cars in the early aughts. But before the redesigned F-150 went all in on four doors, it debuted as one of the most radical single cab trucks ever with a concept called the Ford Triton.
From the 1995 Triton concept, it’s easy to make out what would eventually go on to become the tenth-generation F-150, which featured the first major redesign to the pickup in over two decades, as Motor Trend reports. We can also easily see the outline of the second-generation Ford SVT Lightning. Other than a few changes to the front end, headlights and tail lights, the Triton concept made it to production more or less intact, but the changes are clear enough to warrant a double take.
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The Triton concept has a stronger car vibe than the production pickup that followed two years later when the new Ford F-150 came out in 1997. The concept’s grill is more prominent and hood more rounded in comparison to the production truck.
The Triton’s hood scoop also makes it seem more about performance than work, and this theme would carry over when Ford marketed the latest F-150 as a sleeker alternative to work-focused trucks. The Triton name would live on in the 4.6-liter and 5.4-liter V8 engines that powered the F-150 for the next decade.
