Ford just put 35-inch tires on a base-model work truck and leather seats in a chassis cab. That pretty much tells you everything about where the Super Duty is headed for 2027.
Announced during Work Truck Week 2026, the updates represent Ford’s most aggressive expansion of the Super Duty’s personality since the Tremor package debuted in 2020. The playbook is simple: push off-road capability downmarket and luxury upmarket, all within the same truck line. Orders open in May.
The headliner is the Tremor Off-Road Package finally breaking free of its trim-level cage. For the first time, buyers can pair the full Tremor kit with the XL trim’s STX Appearance Package, creating a cheaper path to factory-built off-road hardware. That means 35-inch Goodyear Wrangler DuraTrac tires, electronic locking rear diff, Tremor-tuned suspension, Trail Control, Trail Turn Assist, Rock Crawl Mode, and skid plates — all without climbing into XLT territory or above.
Ford says the move was driven by watching customers bolt aftermarket lifts and lockers onto their cheaper trucks. The factory decided to meet them where their wallets already were.
Equally significant is the Tremor’s long-overdue arrival on the Crew Cab Long Box — the 176-inch wheelbase, eight-foot bed configuration. Tremor owners have begged for this since 2020. The combination pairs the full off-road suite with the biggest bed and biggest available fuel tank in the lineup, a 48-gallon unit that Ford says is the largest on any Super Duty.
For overlanders, contractors working remote sites, or anyone towing long distances into the backcountry, that’s a real-world capability jump, not a marketing exercise.
Then there’s the XL Off-Road 35-Inch Tire Package, which might be the shrewdest move of the bunch. This is a stripped, no-graphics, no-flash off-road package built specifically for commercial fleets and government agencies. It includes a factory ride-height increase, limited-slip front diff, electronic locking rear diff, performance shocks, and full-size 35-inch spare.
No Tremor decals. No branding. Just clean sheet metal waiting for a company logo or municipal seal.
The existing XL Off-Road Package continues alongside it, now renamed the XL Off-Road 33-Inch Tire Package. Both can be paired with a Ford Performance 12,000-pound Warn winch. Forestry crews, energy companies, rural utilities — Ford is building the trucks those buyers were already building themselves, only now with full warranty coverage and factory engineering.
At the opposite end of the spectrum sits the new Platinum Chassis Cab, available on the F-350, F-450, and F-550. Leather seating surfaces, Sync 4 with Enhanced Voice Recognition, and the kind of interior appointments that suggest Ford sees the chassis cab buyer as more than a fleet manager signing purchase orders. The luxury overlander and expedition camper market keeps growing, and a Platinum-trimmed F-550 underneath a six-figure living quarters makes a lot more sense than a bare-bones cab with a $200,000 box bolted behind it.
Ford’s retail brand manager Austin Solimine framed the updates around CEO Jim Farley’s “Essential Economy” — the construction, manufacturing, energy, and logistics workers Farley credits with propping up GDP. The company also announced Ford Pro AI, an intelligent fleet assistant for telematics subscribers that converts vehicle data into operational insights.
Pricing remains undisclosed until later this spring. The Carhartt Super Duty, teased in January as part of a multiyear partnership, will also be revealed later in 2025.
Seven years ago, a factory-lifted Super Duty with 35-inch tires was a novelty. Now Ford offers it on nearly every configuration in the lineup, from stripped work trucks to leather-lined chassis cabs. The truck that built its reputation hauling steel and concrete is quietly becoming the platform for everything else.
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