2015 Ford Ranger Facelifted

by Derek Kreindler

Published: March 23rd, 2015

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.

#Ford #FordRanger #PickupTruck

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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? :-)

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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!!

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- 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
  
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