Filed under: Spy Photos, Trucks/Pickups, Ford Ford's recent strategy of combining all of its vehicles from around the world on a single set of platforms may finally bring a new Ranger small pickup truck to the United States once the current model loses its long-running lease on life after the 2011 model year. Spy shooters from the other side of the world have snapped off a series of photos of Ford engineers out testing what appears to be the Blue Oval's next-gen small truck platform in both right- and left-hand-drive configurations. The new platform is apparently codenamed T6 and it is being developed in Australia. Here in the States, the next Ranger (if we get one) is likely to be offered with a 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine fortified with Ford's EcoBoost technology. Expect around 175 horsepower and 180 lb-ft of torque from the turbocharged and direct injected mill. Unfortunately, we're not likely to see Ford's 3.0-liter Duratorq TDCi four-cylinder turbodiesel engine in the U.S., though we'd love to have access to its 280 lb-ft of twist. Ah well, can't win 'em all. [Source: PickupTrucks.com]Spy Shots: Is this the next-generation Ford Ranger? And if so, will we get it? originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 12 May 2009 14:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments More...
Actually I dont they dont look that bad they look like the Mazda BT 50 which is available in Australia right now Take a good look at where the driver is sitting in the driving photo and then think to yourself.... Ford is going to build a global platform for as many of their vehicles as possible they are already building this in Australia so it would only make sense to bring this to the US. So with that thinking they are going to share the platform with the Australian ranger/bt 50 which they just revised and it would make more sense to bring it to the US because currently the only thing the US and Australian Ranger share is the name. and here is the Ranger variant oh and for the "OMG, Its ugly, Good bye Ford, we'll miss you." I think the new super dutys are not as good looking as the ones they just replaced and the F150 is ok but either one are nowhere near as ugly as any other truck made by the other companies.
