Video: Gladiator Vs Ranger - Which Is The Better Off Road Truck?

The Ford Ranger and the Jeep Gladiator are two of the most hotly anticipated new cars of 2019. It just so happens that both are midsize pickups, and both happen to offer off-road optimized trim packages for those who like to get dirty on the weekends.

The Fast Lane Truck has released this comprehensive review and comparison on YouTube after extensively testing both trucks off-road in the Pacific Northwest. Naturally, the version of the Gladiator that they chose for this test is the Rubicon model, the top of the line for off-road enthusiasts.

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skytop - 5/6/2019 12:29:55 PM

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The Jeep Glad has decades of off road and on road evolution design in its DNA.
The new Ranger is just a reduced sized pick up truck designed for the paved street use.

TomM - 5/6/2019 4:14:46 PM

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So far - three major Magazine TEsts have put the Chevy Colorado ahead both of them -with Ford Coming in last.

MDarringer - 5/6/2019 6:21:05 PM

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The Ranger is very much a stopgap model.

ricks0me - 5/6/2019 7:21:52 PM

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Matt said: The Ranger is very much a stopgap model

What is suppose to take the current model's place?

MDarringer - 5/6/2019 9:39:25 PM

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A substantially new Ranger will take its place.

The American Ranger is new to us but not to the rest of the world. The only engine that would fit and give appropriate power was the Mustang's 2.3T. A V6 won't fit and maintain acceptable crash ratings. That's a problem because people want a V6 in the Ranger and the 2.3T is an expensive engine.

Most of the Rangers we currently have available are $35-44K machines and ditching 4WD and options does not result in an affordable truck. Jed's Ranger was pricey. It's a nice vehicle, but pricey.

A Ranger Super Crew XL is just a couple grand under $30K but it feels like a $20K vehicle. So when you go down in trim level you feel the pain.

The coming Bronco is Ranger-based, but it is not a Ranger rebodied. The platform is being revised to allow a V6 and some say a V8 because potential Bronco buyers wanted a V8 option. Thus, that updated platform will produce a rather significant Ranger mid-cycle update when it comes a year or so after the Bronco which is still a ways out.

MDarringer - 5/7/2019 8:30:59 AM

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LOL The morons don't get it. They think voting me down is going to hurt my feelings. All their voting down shows is that they are 100% fixated on me, addicted to every post I put forth so they can find it and vote it down. Pure psychosis and I enjoy triggering every damn one of them because they are too stupid to realize i control them. If I were writing another dissertation, this would be gold.

jtz7 - 5/6/2019 9:23:36 PM

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If this was A Hyundai people would had complained of copying the 2019 Ram. But because it is Ford people are going to act like it is original.

jtz7 - 5/8/2019 8:12:13 PM

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Ohhhhh -5. Then this anti-korean blog isn't going to like this also...
No one is going to bring up the 2009 Toyota Tundra's front end huh? If it was a Kia then that's what would had been said.