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[Wandering Sagebrush]

Kat, I need the crew cab... justification follows...

[DavidGraves]

Interesting new Ranger....I like how they bought their front sheet metal from Toyota.

 

David Graves

[smlobx]

My 2007 Ranger is almost worn out. I’m at 68,000 miles already.

My '07 Ranger has 144,000 on it and is still running great.

You're just getting broken in!

Edited by smlobx, 01 November 2018 - 09:40 PM.

[One-derer]

The bed is shorter. At first, I thought it's 6' too. Hoping they would add more truck accessories and better features

[Alley-Kat]

OK, Steve.

 

The guys at BDS Suspension did a 2019 Ranger X build for the SEMA show in Vegas and they added 10" to the frame.

 

You could put on the utility box, like they did, or they can figure out how to fit the 6 foot regular bed on there.
And, you don't have to have it all tricked out like the Ranger X.

 

Here's the BDS Suspension Ranger X build web site with video segments. 
The first video after the Introduction video (Build Update #1) shows the 10" frame section being added.

 

And, here's the Ranger5G web link for additional information on the 2019 Ranger, including other SEMA builds.

Edited by Alley-Kat, 06 November 2018 - 03:20 PM.

[Wandering Sagebrush]

A-K, I’m too lazy to put that much effort into it. Not to mention, penurious...

[Beach]

With the cab/chassis setup, you would have a lot of weight behind the rear axle. Maybe you could get the frame extended like BDS did.

[klahanie]

I never really understood the make-a-small-truck-bigger thing when you you could just buy a bigger truck and drive it. But I guess it's the can't leave it stock program(ming) or simply that it's just cool to be different.

 

On the frame extension, I think for us camper haulers putting the tailgate down is extending the frame. With smaller trucks I'm seeing a trend towards putting longer campers on getting shorter boxes and why not the fullsize folks have been running 9 to 10 3/4 ft campers on 6 1/2 ft short boxes for years.

 

And the 5' will work fine for 'car' drivers not able to buy Ford cars in the near future.

 

Anyway, glad to see the Ranger back !

Edited by klahanie, 06 November 2018 - 05:06 PM.

[OutToLunch]

Saw a couple of the 2019 Rangers being test driven in Flagstaff months ago. Strangely, the first one was in test cameo while the one right behind it wasn’t. They didn’t seem much smaller than my F150 sadly.

[Tuff Guy 62]

My '07 Ranger has 144,000 on it and is still running great.

You're just getting broken in!

 

My '99 Ranger that I use as a daily field work truck has 366,000 and it still runs strong.