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Unfourtantly physical ability doesnt matter to law enforcement.From what I've compared a Ranger especially an older one doesn't make any sense on paper.
In reality it can keep up with my wife's F150 supercrew with a 4.6 OHC V8 and Automatic.
Right now my 3.0 OHV V6 5 Speed manual on paper should be at a disadvantage, but they are surprisingly close!
Since your low revving if it's a Pushrod, well that's where you wanna be!
The 4.6 OHC mimics a OHV but it still has to REV for a second before anything actually happens plus it weighs more so that helps when rolling.
Previous owner F@$&KED the bumper on mine and it has TWO balls on there
Will you be slower? Yep but you'll still be chugging along like the little engine that could hell I never driven a 4 banger Ranger but everyone I talked to said they could haul WHATEVER to the point it was a GAME a JOKE.
Don't be a stranger...
I had an 08 colorado W/T from 08-15. It was similar to the older rangers for useabilty as you mentioned. Athough it didnt seem nearly as well built as the rangers ive had.That and that most new "trucks" today are dangerous and too big that it actually takes away from being useful.
The F150 we have has SERIOUS blind spots due to its extended cab.
Hopeful this trend is coming to an end, people simply aren't buying new vehicles regardless
If anything people are buying older gen vehicles everywhere, and that's a good thing.
You cannot see a pedestrian at all in a new F150 and the "mid-size" like Ranger/Colorado is a joke.
They are bigger than what a full sized truck was in the 90s and didn't function the same.
Absolutely hated the new Colorado build quality was crap and it didn't seem to matter your size or height, everything was uncomfortable and the bed itself was still to high.
Same goes for the new ranger, it's being targeted at a different demographic yet everywhere that a actual truck is needed, usually it's the older gens outnumbering the modern ones.
At least the wife's has a 4.6 and a extended bed, but you really have to be careful around people the beams block everything, no camera or mirror will fix that and then it's being marketed as "safer" which is false information when you look at crash testing they do HORRIBLE.
Trying to reach into her bed is impossible I'm 6'1 basically 6'2 with boots, it's stupid..
The wife's 1999 bubble body extended cab/bed with suicide doors was still smaller than this 2010 and shorter, more capable, less hood height still had presence and you could see damn near 360 degrees. Even with her being short she could even reach into the side of the bed
We were at a red light, someone ran a off ramp thru the intersection underpass, it saved not just our life but took the blow saving the other vehicles next to us because it absorbed ALL the shock from a airborne SUV.
It was the only vehicle to still drive on it's own power.
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