why do we never get the good stuff.... ever!!!!



Finally a ranger that doesn't suck... sold everywhere but here.

3/18/2011 9:28:54 PM

it's fucking weird, isn't it?

it is like cooking at home and then giving the food to the whole world except for your family members.

weird idiots.

3/18/2011 9:31:07 PM

looks like a new tundra but size of the old ones.

but someones trying to match toyotos tacoma.

since the chevy colorado and gmc canyon arent working out like they wanted them too.

all GM needed to do was either make it small and more fuel efficient or make it a little bigger and make a good v6 turbo

3/18/2011 9:39:02 PM

I wish ford would get out of the whale smile frontends.

Looks like a frontier

3/18/2011 9:45:48 PM

it looks awesome has a 6 speed and a diesel... nuff said..

3/18/2011 10:11:03 PM

looks awesome

3/19/2011 12:41:37 AM

they could've found some more places to put chromed plastic if they'd tried a little harder

3/19/2011 12:54:58 PM

who's the doucher at the end?

3/19/2011 6:30:41 PM

Probably the same dickbag that thought it would be a good idea to make a youtube video consisting of nothing but still images instead of just linking to a photo gallery.

3/20/2011 3:53:02 AM

Remember when the Ranger was the best selling compact truck in the US? And then Ford literally didn't change it for ten years and now it's lightyears behind Toyota...gg Ford.

3/21/2011 8:41:01 AM

Here is the video to show the little thing off:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jifReYvzGzc

Quote :

"Remember when the Ranger was the best selling compact truck in the US? And then Ford literally didn't change it for ten years and now it's lightyears behind Toyota...gg Ford."

Bottom line, Ford doesn't want to eat into F-150 sales. They see this as a threat to erode their own customer base, and refuse to do it. Would hate to lose that theoretical "Best Selling Truck for 20+ years" or whatever. BTW, its crazy that my 1995 Ranger looks almost exactly like the trucks rolling off the dealership lots right now, and under the hood is basically the exact same thing. Of course mine has 287k miles more, but that is only a minor detail.

3/21/2011 3:51:45 PM

Ford sold about 400,000 F-150 trucks in 2010 (source: edmunds)

Best. Selling. Vehicle.


I read somewhere that the F-150 is more profitable than a smaller truck, and in the absence of the Ranger, potential buyers just buy the F-150. Offering the Ranger for sale in the States isn't going to poach sales from the Toyota Tacoma (a measly 100,000 units in 2010), but from their cash cow, the F-150.

If the Tacoma magically started selling in numbers comparable to the F-150, or anywhere close, I would expect to see Ford bringing the Ranger to the U.S. market, but until then, they have every incentive not to.

3/21/2011 4:14:03 PM

I think the new global Ranger is 90% the size of the F-150 . . .

3/21/2011 7:52:31 PM

that thing is fugly

3/21/2011 9:22:09 PM

looks more updated than the pos rangers out today. Wonder if Canada gets them? But I'll probably never get a compact truck since the only thing I'm hauling is a small motorcycle trailer and the acura pulls it just fine.

3/22/2011 5:39:21 PM

deep water wading testing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCfrbl2Qbm4&feature=player_embedded

4/5/2011 10:43:52 AM