2024 Ranger

[Uncle Gump]

This just showed up in my list...

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[franklin2]

Looks like a f150 to me. They get bigger and bigger. I think the Maverick is a check on Fords "little" Ranger turning into a full size truck. I think they will sell a lot of the Mavericks if they turn out to be reliable.

 

[Blmpkn]

They're already selling a ton of mavericks.

The new cab looks really similar to the old one. Not much of a redesign there it appears.

 

[superj]

To big. Midsized trucks need to be smaller. You need a ladder to get in the back of a ranger, just like you do on the f150

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Front end looks better

 

[Blmpkn]

To big. Midsized trucks need to be smaller. You need a ladder to get in the back of a ranger, just like you do on the f150

It's really not all that much bigger than the old rangers. Definitely taller though.

 

[superj]

The ehight is what bother me. Thats what i mean by to big. I geuss i agould have said that instead.

 

[franklin2]

I used to have a old 1953 f100 that I got going and daily used for awhile before I sold it. My wife commented first thing on how easy it was to load the bed of that old truck, it was so much lower to the ground and had shorter bed sides than the newer f150 I had.

 

[superj]

Thats why i use my 04 ranger 90% of the time versus my 17 titan. I have to lower the tailgate to put stuff in the bed of the titan

 

[wildbill23c]

Looks like a f150 to me. They get bigger and bigger. I think the Maverick is a check on Fords "little" Ranger turning into a full size truck. I think they will sell a lot of the Mavericks if they turn out to be reliable.

Not sure how that's gonna go, just found specs on the engine in the Maverick, to include aluminum pistons...hmm, so now the whole engine just melts down into a blob of aluminum....so...all you metal guys out there that know the workings of metal far more than the majority of us...how do you think that will work out? Engines get hot of course, so you'd think that stuff would melt I guess not as it would have to be much hotter than an engine would get even if overheated?

 

[wildbill23c]

The ehight is what bother me. Thats what i mean by to big. I geuss i agould have said that instead.

That's my huge gripe of today's truck too. They sit way too high for comfortable loading/unloading from the bed. My 87 Ranger is great, relatively low to the ground to make loading and unloading heavy stuff very easy...and I don't need a ladder to reach stuff in the bed from the side rails of the bed...course I can't reach anything like that now as I have a camper shell on it, but normally its a great height for a work truck....apparently they left that part out of today's trucks given the ridiculously high bed heights they have, and that goes for all automakers, not just a Ford problem.

 

[franklin2]

Not sure how that's gonna go, just found specs on the engine in the Maverick, to include aluminum pistons...hmm, so now the whole engine just melts down into a blob of aluminum....so...all you metal guys out there that know the workings of metal far more than the majority of us...how do you think that will work out? Engines get hot of course, so you'd think that stuff would melt I guess not as it would have to be much hotter than an engine would get even if overheated?

??? Engines have used aluminum pistons since the 50's. Cast, forged, hypereutectic are all aluminum.

 

[snoranger]

Not sure how that's gonna go, just found specs on the engine in the Maverick, to include aluminum pistons...hmm, so now the whole engine just melts down into a blob of aluminum....so...all you metal guys out there that know the workings of metal far more than the majority of us...how do you think that will work out? Engines get hot of course, so you'd think that stuff would melt I guess not as it would have to be much hotter than an engine would get even if overheated?

 

[Uncle Gump]

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Not sure how that's gonna go, just found specs on the engine in the Maverick, to include aluminum pistons...hmm, so now the whole engine just melts down into a blob of aluminum....so...all you metal guys out there that know the workings of metal far more than the majority of us...how do you think that will work out? Engines get hot of course, so you'd think that stuff would melt I guess not as it would have to be much hotter than an engine would get even if overheated?

Seems to be a new fad, I don't see it lasting very long. Long live the cast iron pistons!

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