Recreational Vehicle

Ford has not treated recreational use as a single, conventional passenger-car nameplate so much as an ongoing truck-and-chassis theme. The earliest clearly documented Ford use of the recreational-vehicle idea dates to the mid-1960s, when the company was marketing camper-oriented pickup and chassis-cab applications and published recreational-car-and-truck material for 1965. In later decades, Ford expanded that role into purpose-built motorhome underpinnings, including stripped chassis and dedicated RV-oriented chassis that became a familiar foundation for Class A and Class C motorhomes. By the late 1980s, Ford’s heavy-duty chassis were firmly established in the RV market, and the company has continued to publish RV towing and motorhome chassis guides into the present day. Because this record represents a Ford recreational-vehicle designation rather than a single standalone consumer model, it is best understood as an evolving family of RV-related truck and chassis offerings rather than one discrete vehicle line with a clean end date.