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Spotted In Detroit: Global Ford Ranger
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Derek Kreindler
(IC: employee)
Published: July 16th, 2013
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An eagle-eyed reader sent us pictures of this Ford Global Ranger on the streets of Detroit. Reader bball40dtw claims that this version is “set up for diagnostic testing”. Nevertheless, don’t hold your breath. This thing is apparently 90 percent of the size of an F-150 and the price points are too similar.
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