2015 Ford Ranger Facelifted

Derek Kreindler
by Derek Kreindler

If you live in the NAFTA zone (excluding Mexico, of course), your best bet at seeing a global Ford Ranger is in the movie The Counselor. Otherwise, you’ll soon be able to buy a now-updated version of Ford’s F-150 for the rest of us.

As you’ve been told countless times, the Ranger is redundant in America, thanks to being 90 percent of the F-150’s size but no less expensive. Along with an updated SYNC system, it gets a new suite of active safety features (active cruise control, park assist), as well as trailer sway control, hill descent control and things that our government considers mandatory, like tire pressure monitors. A basic mid-size pickup this ain’t.

Power comes from a gasoline 2.5L 4-cylinder engine or 4 and 5 cylinder diesels.



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  • HotPotato HotPotato on Mar 24, 2015

    You really want a Ranger? A guy down the street wanted an Ecosport. His cousin drove a new Mexican-plated Ecosport up here from Mexico. It seems to me the cousin left but the car didn't. Got a cousin in Mexico who's willing to title it to himself but park it at your house? :-)

  • Jgwag1985 Jgwag1985 on Mar 24, 2015

    I saw this Ranger (in orange/yellowish) a couple weeks outside the Ford plant on Plymouth in Livonia. Here's why I believe it will be available in the USA. It was LEFT HAND DRIVE!!

    • RobertRyan RobertRyan on Mar 24, 2015

      LHD is available as well as RHD. I think it would be there for testing in the US of some new system ,that will be on the new 2015/2016 Model

  • Rrp138519787 If Jeep wanted to re-introduce the Wagoneer name, they just should have named the Grand Cherokee L the Wagoneer instead, and done a little bit more styling differentiation. They could have done a super deluxe version as the Grand Wagoneer. But all Wagoneers would have been the three row version as the primary product differentiation. And would cause less confusion for consumers overall.
  • D The only people who have TDS, which I assume is Trump Derangement Syndrome, are the MAGOTS who have been brainwashed to love him. They Know Not What They Do.
  • The Oracle The updated Model Y beat this copy to market.
  • ToolGuy™ I respect what the seller is doing, but this vehicle is not for me. (Seller doesn't care, has two people lined up already.)
  • SCE to AUX How well does the rear camera work in the rain and snow?
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