Bracing won’t help you get ready for this Ford F-150 being sold on Facebook Marketplace. Neither will yoga, mindfulness, or two shots of vodka. In fact, nothing can prepare you for the DIY Premier Automotive Group fever dream that is the S-150. J-150? Forduar? Is this technically a Jag-up? Please don’t let this be technically called an F-Type.
The early-aughts Jaguar S-Type is generally regarded as one of the cars of all time. Decent to drive but difficult to look at, it was a turning point for the retro-themed car wave that made everyone with taste wonder, “Erm, are you sure about that?” Coincidentally, the tenth-generation Ford F-Series pickup truck is also the black sheep of its bloodline, a jellybean-shaped workhorse that isn’t remembered with the same reverence of its contemporary GM and Dodge rivals, save for the supercharged Lightning street truck and Matt Hardigree’s weird obsession with jellybean F-150s.
However, the tenth-gen F-Series and the S-Type both shared enough cough drop-shaped DNA that someone thought it would be a good idea to mash parts of both together and see what’s what. Up for sale in Denver, Colo. is this 2001 extended cab F-150 with the grille, headlights, partial bumper, and possibly some of the hood of a Jaguar S-Type. Oh, and it has a Lincoln Navigator front bumper for good measure. If the Lincoln Blackwood actually sold, this would’ve been the next logical step.
While the exterior of this rolling Chimera (no, not the TVR) is fascinating, reports of the interior come across as no less than sumptuous. According to The Drive, this this has a red leather interior and dual sunroofs. If that isn’t ’04 rich, I don’t know what is.
This F-150 has been kicking around Colorado for a long time, so it shouldn’t be surprising that it’s deviated somewhat from the vision it was built with. After all, it’s been photographed rocking at least one flier set of wheels while devoid of the awful, visibility-impinging, two-brain-cells-fighting-for-third-place blue headlight tint. However, time has been kind enough to this creation that it seems pretty much intact, complete with some trademark tropes of the aughts. How about those Lightning-aping Altezza tail lights, the Z3-style louvers in the fenders, and the double-bubble tonneau cover? That’s SEMA 2004 all day, baby.
While it’s impossible to say whether some OEM employee — probably a bean counter — did or did not once ponder a Jaguar pickup truck, the marque isn’t traditionally known for high-end work vehicles. However, you’ll want to count your beans if you’re tempted by this tenth-gen F-150 because the seller wants $10,000 for it. Yeah, that’s a lot of moolah. However, it’s also a real case of ‘find another,’ as I’m sure Jaguar-faced trucks aren’t exactly common.
(Photo credits: Facebook Marketplace Seller)
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So hideous, and yet so well-executed.
I was going to say the same thing! That front is kinda ghastly looking, but very well done. I’d you just look at the details it looks like it belongs!
Not sure about Jag-Up, but I know a jag-off when I see one.
Wow, I can’t even…and already on the ugliest F-150 Ford ever made?
I’m holding out for the infamous red Ranger with the New Edge Mustang nose to come up for sale.
That would be better I think
Edit: I found it, not sure it’s better though
https://reddit.com/r/ATBGE/s/5KJJFP4OuS
Finally! I’ve been leaving my F-150 and S-type in a dark garage with a Spotify playlist blasting and The Office on in the background for years. Hoping they make a hybrid. But, no dice. “Don’t make a Jaguar truck”, “That would be terrible” and “That’s not how cars work” they said. But they’re wrong! It can gone! Soon, we’ll have hundreds of F150-types driving around, that will show them!
I don’t hate this nearly a much as I’m probably legally supposed to.
Logically, there might be an S-Type wandering around with an F-150 nose grafted on….
No.
I don’t hate it, that’s for sure. I really dig these rims for some reason.
I love the juxtaposition of the immaculate truck surrounded by a dilapidated house and garage/shop.
The seller clearly has their priorities straight.
Never knew Mitsuoka made a pickup. Thanks, Thomas, for my “The More You Know” moment of the day.
Solid joke
It still looks better than anything Chevrolet is doing these days.
I think my favorite part is the fact that according to the linked article from the drive, this thing was listed at $7k several years ago, and they think that it has gained value since.
One of a kind, I know what I got. No low ballers or tire kickers.
I sure as hell hope it’s one of a kind! It’s painful to think that there may be more than one person out there who thought this was a good idea!
I think this should be praised, at least on some level.
See, late 90’s/early 00’s was a great time for auto industry, a lot of people, no matter if automakers or independent builders, were willing to spend money to build whatever comes to their minds.
Could anyone here imagine any automaker putting a dime to build something like a PT Cruiser or a W8/12 engine nowadays?
Everything today is thought with profit in mind, a very few people would risk to put any kind of resource or time on something like this. But at that time, people were brave to bring such creations to life.
Today everybody builds silver/black/whites crossovers or electric cars with artificial flying saucers sounds. Who was alive at that time could not wonder that were living in a gold age of its own.
It was a time where I felt genuinely excited about new car launches as opposed to a mix of indifference and apprehension
Never thought I’d look back fondly at things like the PT Cruiser, or really that era at all, yet here we are. It was a much more daring time, both developmentally and stylistically.
Who would think that? A lot of cars, if not most, were just big pos, but they were distinct. And affordable. Anything fancy or cool is prohibitely expensive, unless you are brave enought ot navigate the seas of the rich people leftovers…
I was saying this less well the other day. There was a sense of hope and newness and ‘let’s try it cause why not?’ that I don’t think we’ll ever see again. Maybe it was the excitement of the new millenia, or that CAD and new manufacturing techniques had made development substantially cheaper/easier and new ideas feasible, but it felt like all sorts got thrown at the wall with reckless abandon. Of course, mix the retro craze in with it, and you definitely got some weird stuff, but weird is at least interesting.
Buying a car in 2023 (if you could afford to), for the vast majority seems to just be “how can I get the biggest greyest, most seats having 2 box lump of sadness for as little as possible?”.
That’s why I don’t plan buying a new car any soon. And it is still a bad time to buy an used to. Sad times.
I’m not sure what the biggest crime is here…
A) The fact that it exists at all
B) The blue headlights
C) The baleen in the front air dam.
The whole thing should be brought up on war crimes.
C) Baleen air dam should never be a concept or a reality. What is the vehicle filtering?
Krill, duh.
Also, you’ve heard of the saleen mustang, now get ready for the baleen . . . this.
Krill Grille. Now we have seen it all.
Yes.
It’s impressive how cursed this is. I can’t look away
Brain leaking out ears. Does not compute. Must own.
My first reaction when seeing something like this is: Someone thought this was a such a great idea that they put their time and money into it.
Did a double-take when I saw this thing driving around a few years ago. It’s really a different experience when you see it in the wild with no forewarning. It needs one of those pilot cars with flashing lights and flags driving in front of it, so we have a chance to prepare ourselves for the visual assault we’re about to experience.
Former Denver resident who saw this on the road one day. I was not prepared, and agree the pilot car is necessary.
It was down in DTC when I saw it and turning left across the intersection from my. The light turned for it to turn before I could even get my phone into camera mode. It was there, noticed, and gone within 15 to 20 seconds. And that’s not enough time to process. he shock was so great I had to pull over for a moment to let it sink in.
And years after processing and forgetting, here it is again, now for sale. I think I’ll pass. At least I can look at photos and not let it startle me.
This…is very well done for what it is. It’s a bit like if Mad Max were set in the suburbs of Denver and they stopped making cars in the mid aughts for whatever plot driven reason.
What a pleb.
A classier chap would only haul in an Aston Martin.
This absolutely should not work, it has no right to exist whatsoever, but it totally works.
I mean build quality appears to be better than multiple OEMs current products at the moment, so at least it has that going for it. That said, 10k is far too much, this screams “throw it on Cars & Bids no reserve” and see what happens. Still not as outlandish as that 80’s F-150 with a boat for a body from a year-ish back
I LOVE IT.
OK, not the blue-tinted headlights. Or the wheels. But the rest? Amazing. Would be even better in British Racing Green.
I’m surprised —but with you. Ditch the awful headlights and whatever that starburst in the grill is, add some reasonable 5-spoke wheels, and drive around trying to figure out what color to minimize that lower strainer with. It looks much better in the link with former wheels (minus those wheels). Not my style, but seems well done and I rather like it for being unabashedly funky.
All that work and it still has the little dealership emblem on the tailgate. Maybe it’s meant to be ironic.
Nice – very evocative.
God I hate the dealership emblems.
Holy shit… this is WAY better integrated than it has any right to be. Not saying it’s a great idea, but I’ll appreciate hard work that fits different tastes.
Awful taste but great execution, one of my favorite subreddits.
While I don’t spend any time on Reddit, I too am a fan of people who do an excellent job at something no one should ever have done and the work they do. The front clip is really well blended. Horrid for sure. but well blended.
Thanks for the link. Found the Mustang/Ranger mashup on there, too. Humans are endlessly imaginative