...and the Ranger is a Mazda product purchased by Ford. Mazda manufactured in Minnesota and New Jersey. Many imports have been manufactured in the US for a long time now. It's owned by Ford but the Ranger since '94 is a Mazda B series truck with a few minor trim changes. Same engine, trans and most everything else is the same. Mazda also made the Ford Courier earlier.
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Mazda mad the Courier, but the 94+ Ranger is a Ford built by Ford for Ford, using some Mazda parts, namely the manual transmission, and the 2.3L from 01 up. The whole rest of the truck is Ford to the bones. The 94+ Mazda B-series is a re-badged Ford.
In case you want to question me on that....
The 94 body is the same as the 93 body.
The frame for 93-97 is largely unchanged from the 83-92, except the front frame horns for the bumper mounting.
Available engines were the 2.3L Lima, which Ford was using since the early 70s, the 3.0 Vulcan, which Ford designed and built originally in the 80s for the Taurus platform, and the 4.0, which is in the Cologne family, which traces it's roots to Ford's Germany division and it's production of the Tanus V4 in the 60s.
Available axles were the Ford 7.5 and 8.8. The 7.5 was in the Mustangs and other small cars, the 8.8 used in the Rangers was a lighter duty version of the light duty axle used in the F-100s and F-150s starting in 1980. A variant was also used in the Crown Vic cars.
Automatic transmission? Bordeaux series transmissions designed by Ford built in the plant in Bordeaux France. I have actually met the guy who was the production supervisor of the 5R55 assembly line in the late 90s. He was one of my customers for a few years, cool guy, and actually knew what he was talking about most of the time, but could admit when he didn't, unlike most customers.
The M5OD was the only Mazda designed and built unit used in a Ranger between 94 and 2000 until the 2.5 Lima was killed and replaced with the 2.3 Duratec which is a Mazda L series engine.
And interestingly, the Mazda manual transmission in question was never used in an actual Mazda product.