Ford Ranger: It had a good run for a little guy
Well, it certainly had a good run: the Ford Ranger will soon be no more as Ford pulls the plug on the venerable little pickup that (thanks in part to the Chicken Tax) was one of the best sellers in the Americas.
A capable little rig, the four wheel drive Ranger is as much at home on the trails as it is on the urban commute. Fun to drive, useful, simple, and economical (with the 4 cylinder engine at least), the Ford Ranger will be missed.
It seems small pickup trucks (you know, the ones that seem to actually get used as trucks more often than their bigger brethren) are no longer popular enough to warrant continued production in North America.
So while the rest of the world will get a new Ranger–a little bigger, and probably with a nice diesel engine–we in North America are stuck with the Ford F-150. Not a bad truck for sure, but…a lot more pickup than many people actually need.
Here on Vancouver Island, the Ford Ranger is ubiquitous: there’s one on just about every corner, every trail. If you drive a Ranger here, share your comments about this truck and its pending demise from the Ford lineup.
