Ford’s heavy-duty pickup lines turned out 110,275 Super Duty trucks in the third quarter of 2026, up 4.4% from the same quarter a year earlier and, by the company’s count, its best quarterly Super Duty production in 19 years.
The figure came in Ford’s third-quarter U.S. sales report, released Oct. 2, 2026. It is a production number, not a sales number, and Ford gave it a section of its own in the report.
Super Duty’s share of the F-Series
Ford’s Q3 2026 sales release, published on the company’s From the Road newsroom, carries a section titled “Super Duty Production Reaches 19-Year High.” It states that “Super Duty production totaled 110,275 trucks in the third quarter, up 4.4% from a year ago,” and calls it the truck’s “best quarterly production performance in 19 years.” The release summary repeats the point, crediting the quarter to “stronger F-Series sales in September and Super Duty’s best quarterly production performance in 19 years.”
The Super Duty is the heavy-duty end of Ford’s F-Series family, and it made up a large share of the quarter’s truck output. “Overall F-Series production increased 4.5% to 266,777 trucks in the quarter,” Ford said in the same release, and the company tied that rise to “Super Duty’s strongest quarterly production performance in 19 years.” By those figures, about four in 10 F-Series trucks Ford built in the quarter were Super Duty models.
Ford linked the higher output to its September results. The company reported that “September F-Series sales rose 2.4% to 67,448 trucks as production increased.” Through September, F-Series sales totaled 561,508 trucks, per the release. Ford did not break out a separate Super Duty sales figure for the quarter.
Andrew Frick, president of Ford Blue and Model e, framed the quarter around trucks. “Customers continue to choose our trucks, SUVs and performance vehicles,” Frick said in the release, “with F-Series, Bronco and our hybrid truck lineup posting standout results.”
Built for work fleets
Ford’s commercial business frames the Super Duty numbers. The Q3 2026 release says the company “remains the No. 1 commercial vehicle brand in the United States” and “held a 41% share of the Class 1-7 commercial truck and van segment” in the quarter. The release does not break that share down by model.
Ford had been short of Super Duty capacity for some time. In a July 18, 2024 announcement on expanding North American F-Series production, the company said that “demand from Ford Pro customers is higher than what Ford can produce now,” and that its Kentucky Truck Plant and Ohio Assembly Plant were “operating at full capacity.” Ford said then that it planned to “invest approximately $3 billion to expand Super Duty production” and would “assemble F-Series Super Duty pickups at its Oakville Assembly Complex in Ontario, Canada, starting in 2026,” adding “up to 100,000 units” of Super Duty capacity. The Q3 2026 release does not say which plants built the 110,275 trucks or how much, if any, came from Oakville.
A year earlier
The year-ago quarter was already a strong one for the truck line. Ford’s Q3 2025 U.S. sales release, dated Oct. 1, 2025, reported that “F-Series sold 207,732 vehicles in Q3” of that year and that “Super Duty also gained, up 4.7%.” The 2026 production figure topped that period’s output by 4.4%, according to Ford.
Ford’s overall volume moved the other way in the third quarter of 2026. “Third-quarter sales totaled 509,764 vehicles, down 6.6%, reflecting the planned portfolio changes,” the company said, a reference to models Ford is phasing out. Frick said Ford continued “to gain retail share adjusted for the planned sunset of Escape and Corsair.”
The 19-year mark is Ford’s own comparison, and the company did not publish the earlier quarter it is measured against. The next data point comes with Ford’s next quarterly U.S. sales report, covering October through December 2026.
Top image: A 2024 Ford F-250 Super Duty XLT. Image Credit: HJUdall — CC0 / Wikimedia Commons
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Combat Rated editors prior to publication.