Video Shows Just How Tough The New Ford Ranger Is Going To Be

As long as Ford prices this new Ranger spot on or less than the Chevy Colorado, it will sell well.

There are quite a few ready to buy it.

and hope people forgot the last Ranger.

Hmmm I did not see any extreme testing in that video. I think a Honda Civic could have done anything shown except maybe the towing part.

People forget - NOW that FORD is dropping CARS for the most part - virtually their entire ADVERTISING budget will be used to sell trucks - a luxury that Chevy does not have (Or currently need). In your face advertising will sell the Ranger even if it is only Okay.

AS far as testing - BOTH (I may as well say all) Manufacturers do extensive testing of their vehicles - totaling Millions of miles - and yet defects still manage to elude their testing. Some are small - some are not so small sometimes. THE purpose of a warranty is to cover that situation in reality - and MOST such defects are known in the first Six months of production - even if it might take another year for a real fix to be available. I will mention the Ford E40D 4 Speed Automatic transmission that required a MAJOR gear train change from using support bushings to bearings - when it was found the bushings did not hold up under even normal conditions - and this transmission was first used in the F150 and underwent extensive testing (THe parts kit for the change was over $1000)

The warranty also covers parts that are defective in manufacture - those generally fail quickly - and do not need new engineering - just replacement.

I had no idea that manufacturers did extensive testing. I thought they were like Tesla and did no testing at all. This warranty thing...I never knew that before either.

clueless