Just leave it alone. No amount of K&N filters, performance exhausts, lift kits, and knobby tires is going to change the fact your dog-slow, bare bones Ranger 4x2 is, in fact, a dog-slow, bare bones Ranger 4x2. Appreciate it for the simple, reliable pickup it is, and leave that money in the bank.

Maybe I’m too much of a pessimist, but I have serious doubts we’re going to see the next Fiesta here, in regular or ST form. As mentioned, Fiesta sales have tanked from a high of 71k in 2013 to 49k in 2016, and based on how the current administration feels about these things, its assembly in Mexico could be a…

Wait, you know these people too?!?!

Never being satisfied.

This. My wife could care less about cars and her Civic looks the part. Full of trash, dirty (unless I’ve washed it), lots of scratches and dents. I’m out there fretting over a minute surface scratch on the Fusion or the fact that yesterday’s snow left the Ranger covered in filth. Oh how life would be less…

5th: All this talk and investment toward Ford becoming a “mobility company” brings to mind memories of the late ‘90s and Jaques Nasser’s efforts to turn Ford into a consumer company providing automotive goods and services. Nasser’s tenure was marked by missteps that took years to repair. While autonomous technology…

It is a very competitive lineup top-to-bottom. Maybe not class-leading in all areas, but no glaring deficiencies either.

It’s both hilarious and sad that GM was using the same basic HVAC controls more than 20 years later. ‘96 Cutlass Ciera:

Even more rare was the ‘85 Motorsport Capri put together by ASC/McLaren to commemorate the Mercury Motorcity 100. Only 55 built in total.

Our ‘74 Country Squire had the wing. Seemed pretty good keeping the rear window free of snow buildup while driving through many a Colorado snowstorm.

I always preferred the notch back LX 5.0 models exactly because they were fairly beige. The GTs had all that body cladding that looked a bit ridiculous, while the LXs were the Q-ship.

Yep, and those first-gen GTs had the F2T 2.2 turbo, rather than the KL-DE 2.5 V6 in the second-gen GTs.

Screw that. Oregon Trail Generation.

I can attest to the Ranger on this list. My first car was a new (it was only $8k) ‘97 Ranger 4x2 with the 2.3 and 5-speed. I drove that thing for 9 years through high school and college, amassing about 140k miles. Gave it to my dad and he has put on an additional 160k since. So now, 20 years old, it has 300k+…

Wait, wait, wait, you’re saying my love for the Topaz XR5 is unfounded and it was actually a terrible car?

+1 for the Conti

Yeah, none of this is really all that surprising, aside from the statement the 2019 Ranger will be a face-lifted T6 Ranger. I was under the impression the T6 Ranger would be redesigned into a new truck for both the NA and Global markets, since by 2019 the T6 would be 9 years old.

Absolutely. Ford just needs to channel the ‘02-’03 Ranger FX4 with the manual T-case. C’mon Ford...don’t think about it, just do it.