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04/10/2018 at 22:48 • Filed to: None
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"SHARPSPEED" (SHARPSPEED)
04/10/2018 at 22:48 • Filed to: None | 3
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Well aware this was already shown in Thailand and it’s all but confirmed to go stateside, but goddamn Ford, not even a little sublty, huh?
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Dslay04
> SHARPSPEED
04/10/2018 at 23:15 |
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Interesting that they’re testing the RHD version here
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> SHARPSPEED
04/11/2018 at 01:46 |
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Pleased to see it in its intended natural surroundings. Ford were clever...
Svend
> SHARPSPEED
04/11/2018 at 04:32 |
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Just looks like a Ford Ranger with an aftermarket Raptor style grille.
jimz
> Dslay04
04/11/2018 at 06:47 |
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why? I’ve seen plenty of non-US vehicles puttering around Dearborn.
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Svend
> jimz
04/11/2018 at 08:04 |
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I think more that it’s RHD than LHD. You’d think it would be just as easy to get an LHD to test in a LHD country though South Africa and Thailand are RHD. Argentina and Vietnam are LHD countries that make them so I guess it depends where it was made but I’d say the RHD countries that make the T6 almost certainly make LHD Rangers also.
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jimz
> Svend
04/11/2018 at 08:10 |
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You use what’s available. Test vehicles aren’t free.
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Svend
> jimz
04/11/2018 at 08:21 |
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I appreciate that but also appreciate why someone may be curious as to why an American car manufacturer testing a car in America that will soon be made in America for the American market that has equal access to both LHD and RHD vehicles would use a RHD vehicle.
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jimz
> Svend
04/11/2018 at 09:09 |
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Safest assumption is that there aren’t yet any LHD examples of that particular vehicle.
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Svend
> jimz
04/11/2018 at 09:46 |
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Unlikely. The T6 has been with us since 2011 and the current look (facelifted) since 2015-16.
Looking closer at the OPs Ranger the front wings are flared out slightly.
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jimz
> Svend
04/11/2018 at 09:55 |
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The T6 has been with us since 2011 and the current look (facelifted) since 2015-16.
Not the Raptor. What I meant by my post above is that it’s most likely no LHD Raptors have been built yet.
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Svend
> jimz
04/11/2018 at 10:11 |
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Okay I take your point but then I’m not sure why they’d make a RHD Ranger Raptor before an LHD one when the vehicle holds more significance to North America than anywhere else.
To the rest of the world the Raptor name has little significance other than being a different spec when we’ve had Rangers like the Wildtrak that we’ve modified cheaply enough.
The Ranger is significant for Ford in North America as it’s a return of the Ranger name, a smaller truck than the ones normally associated with North America, add to the mix the Raptor name to help prise those dollars away their wallets. So ye’, I’d be surprised at an RHD Ranger in the U.S.
Rock Bottom
> SHARPSPEED
04/11/2018 at 11:14 |
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Just because it’s being evaluated here doesn’t mean it will be sold here. All of the Big 3 engineer cars for other markets in Michigan. All of the Big 3 also have sophisticated wind tunnels, thermal testing labs, and other specialized facilities centralized in Michigan instead of spread out all over the globe.
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Dslay04
> jimz
04/11/2018 at 12:30 |
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because of the terrain, I would of thought they would of been somewhere like Arizona.
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jimz
> Dslay04
04/11/2018 at 12:59 |
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I’m going to venture a guess and say this was brought in for marketing or the design studio, and not for testing.
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Dslay04
> Svend
04/11/2018 at 13:17 |
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......because the Ranger was built for Australia and Thailand first...... same thing GM did.
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Svend
> Dslay04
04/11/2018 at 13:27 |
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That bares no significance. We’ve had the Ranger since 2011 and so has been around in present form for seven years with the facelift having been with us for three years.