Ford Ranger - milking the cow for every last drop..

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by jpd80

Life is full of choices and it clear that Ford has made them for our market but intersting
that Ranger has been given a pass until about 2028, maybe ford is hoping to be off diesel by then…

Diesel is trash for light vehicles - fragile because of all their emissions bullshit, expensive to maintain, NVH issues with their clattery idle and rough characteristics.

Compared to the Ecoboost range, Ford's own diesel engines are junk.

It started out as a technology that could run on multiple fuels and it's turned into this picky fragile piece of shit that shits the bed the moment it doesn't get pristine diesel, the failures all cost four figures starting with a five and above to fix,

Not only does it need mint condition fuel, you now need to operate them in a very specific way or the emissions gear shits the bed.

Should be left for heavy commercial vehicles, ships and that sort of thing where you need that benefit a diesel engine suppliees

Anything 4500kg GVM and under doesn't need diesel and I'd also bet that sub 8000kg GVM doesn't need it either.

PHEV Ranger is going to be interesting with the 2.3 Ecoboost, if it does sub 10L/100km then diesel should be buried.