Road Trip: Ford brings cars to American Truck Simulator

Cars join the convoy

Road Trip: Ford will launch on 29 September 2026 as a paid add-on for American Truck Simulator, SCS Software has confirmed on its own blog. The pack swaps articulated rigs for licensed Ford cars, and it plugs into Road Trip, a new gameplay module the studio has been building through 2026.

Road Trip changes the rhythm of a run. Rather than hauling freight across state lines, players take on smaller delivery jobs behind the wheel of a car, with accessory and repaint options to make each one their own. SCS Software says the vehicles are a deliberate departure from what drivers have been used to, and that the cars can be driven across the same American map that the studio has spent a decade assembling.

A sightseeing Atlas for the open road

The module also introduces the Atlas, which turns the map into a running guide to the country by flagging landmarks as drivers pass them. SCS Software first explained the feature in an August post, describing it as a way to discover and learn about the landscapes that slide by the windscreen.

SCS Software published a release-date trailer with the announcement, showing the pack's two headline cars on a desert highway. American Truck Simulator itself remains a separate purchase on Steam, and the expansion arrives for PC only.

Our opinion

Truck simulators have always sold the romance of the long haul, which makes a car pack an interesting admission from a studio whose whole business is eighteen-wheelers. The interesting part is not the Fords themselves but the Atlas: after years of map expansions that added road, the studio is now selling reasons to slow down and look at it. For a game whose appeal is largely mechanical repetition, that is the harder problem, and the one worth watching on 29 September.