Ford Ranchero Could Replace Ranger As A Compact Pickup - Gas 2.0
Before the Ford Ranger, there was the Ranchero, a car-based two-door truck in the same vein as the famed Chevy El Camino. Ford hasn’t built a new Ranchero in the U. S. since 1979, but the Blue Oval is considering a new small pickup for the American market. This new truck would also be smaller than the Ford Ranger sold overseas, which Ford says is about 90% of the size of the last-generation F-150. There’s too much overlap to make a business case, according to Ford. There might be room in the Ford lineup for that, and the Ranchero name might take the place of the long-loved Ranger. Of course there’s no saying the Ranchero name would be used over the Ranger, only that it’d be a cool nod of nostalgia to the Ford of yesteryear. That said, Ford’s truck manager David Scott told USA Today that a new vehicle would likely use a unibody construction , rather than the traditional body-on-frame truck design, which opens up the door for a car-based truck design, possibly with... David Scott says that a compact pickup that got up to 8 MPG better than the F-150, and for $5,000 or $6,000 less, would do well with Ford’s current lineup, and I have to say I agree. Source: gas2.org
