Bad news. No new Ranger

[Blake.]

i do not want a new truck. too much crap and too complicated to fix when it gets old and wore out. think about it. i doubt we will be seeing 2011 model trucks rolling around 30-40 years from now like the way you see 70's and 80's model trucks now. the new trucks are too complicated for they're own good. sure its nice for the first few years but what happens when it gets 10 years+ ? i like my old trucks. i hope to add an old toyota pickup or 4runner to my collection in the future.

i'll buy a new econobox for comfort, commuting, gas mileage. after a few years trade it for a new one. repeat.

the ranger will die, but there will be something to take it's place. plain and simple.
will it be ugly? most likely.
will i like it? probably not.

the thing is so called normal people "want" is a truck-like abomination with everything a motor home has on the inside, rides like a cloud, and gets decent gas mileage.

so take a motor home mash it together with a 1/2 ton fullsize 4 door pickup. do a voodoo head shrink on it and you have the body. put safety whateverthehellyoucancomeupwith in it. then mash together a town car's floaty cloud suspension with the hight of the full size pickups and suv's and slap it under your voodoo shrunk bus truck home thing, make a bigger prius motor to put in it, offer a towing package and call it done.

 

[joecool85]

so take a motor home mash it together with a 1/2 ton fullsize 4 door pickup. do a voodoo head shrink on it and you have the body. put safety whateverthehellyoucancomeupwith in it. then mash together a town car's floaty cloud suspension with the hight of the full size pickups and suv's and slap it under your voodoo shrunk bus truck home thing, make a bigger prius motor to put in it, offer a towing package and call it done.

I'll take 3!

 

[06RangerXLT]

im trying to understand whats wrong with what he just described...

 

[Blake.]

it's impossible. that's what's wrong with it. lol oh and dont forget it needs 4x4 or awd

 

[Funnyman141]

Personally I think that IF they do discontinue the ranger it'll be to completely retool the factories to upgrade it from bumper to tailgate, then slap on a different name, revamping fords compact truck line. or there are just saying that they were going to get rid of it to get us all butt sore, then read through the forums to get ideas of what we all really want (I can wish can't I? lol) if it is the latter I want Gwaii, BobbyWalter, and AllanD to be in there Helping them redesign the compact truckline, then those of us that use them like trucks (or toys) will be happy to have a no frills truck, thats reliable, dependable, and tough.

I have more ideas but I'll keep them to myself, for now

 

[seanm]

There was an article in the paper a while back. Basically Ford was saying most Ranger drivers use them mainly to commute. So now that they have two compact cars, Ranger owners will switch to them Or just buy an F-150.

I guess the rational for the compact car is that if you want a compact truck you will want a compact car? As for the F-150, if I wanted an F-150, I would buy one. But I really don't like the look of the new F-150s. They look more like SUVs than pickup trucks, at least IMHO.

A secondary reason for dropping the Ranger is they want to shut that factory down.

 

[joecool85]

Unfortunately, right now what they is true. Most people buying Rangers do use them just for commuting. HOWEVER, if they UPDATED the damn thing they'd sell a ton of them!

 

[exbass94]

Official last day of Ranger production is December 22, 2011.

 

[joecool85]

Official last day of Ranger production is December 22, 2011.

That is sad. I hope Ford does something. Maybe they'll do what they did with the Taurus and bring it back. But the thing is with that is the 500 came out to replace the Taurus, then they just renamed the 500 to Taurus - so that seems like a no-go since there is no Ranger replacement right now.

Maybe they'll bring the little Ford Bantam over here...

 

[jcd302]

They could just bring the global Ranger here. Good enough for the rest of the world, why not US?
They paid off the tooling years ago. The thing is pure profit now. They spent like $5.00 on R&D in the past 10 years.

 

[joecool85]

They could just bring the global Ranger here. Good enough for the rest of the world, why not US?
They paid off the tooling years ago. The thing is pure profit now. They spent like $5.00 on R&D in the past 10 years.

It's built in Thailand and if they import it here they will have to endure the 25% "chicken tax". This would bring the price of the new Ranger to that of the base F150, so they figure no one would buy it - which is probably true. My answer to that is: BUILD THE DAMN THING HERE!

 

[FO44RD]

it's built in thailand and if they import it here they will have to endure the 25% "chicken tax". This would bring the price of the new ranger to that of the base f150, so they figure no one would buy it - which is probably true. My answer to that is: Build the damn thing here!

yup!!!

 

[DFracing]

ford wont come out with anything close to the ranger again for a while,
it takes away from their precious f150 sales
god forbid the f150 should lose its "best selling" title to a ranger

 

[joecool85]

Wow, back from the dead thread, eh?

I hope Ford smartens up a brings over the new Ranger or offers us something similar. If not, my next truck will be a Jeep (assuming they finalize the pickup they are working on).

 

[jmg8550]

There was an article in the paper a while back. Basically Ford was saying most Ranger drivers use them mainly to commute. So now that they have two compact cars, Ranger owners will switch to them Or just buy an F-150.

I guess the rational for the compact car is that if you want a compact truck you will want a compact car? As for the F-150, if I wanted an F-150, I would buy one. But I really don't like the look of the new F-150s. They look more like SUVs than pickup trucks, at least IMHO.

A secondary reason for dropping the Ranger is they want to shut that factory down.

That is the dumbest logic I have ever read. I drive a Ranger because I use it and I don't like little coffin (I mean compact) cars. If I wanted to drive a car, I would. I still will never buy a Toyota or Nissan. I think they are not as good as their hyped up to be. I was a mechanic for 7 years and they had just as many problems as the American trucks.