The Little Ford Truck Everyone Still Hunts For

The old Ford Ranger was small, simple, and cheap, and for eighteen years it was the best-selling compact pickup in America. Then Ford stopped building it, and prices of the good ones kept climbing. Here is the story of the little truck, what goes wrong, and how to buy a good used one. Sources: Wikipedia: Ford Ranger (Americas) Wikipedia: Ford Courier Star Tribune: Ranger riding into the sunset UPI: Ford to close out Ranger for US market (December 2011) The Ranger Station: Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant Assembly Magazine: Ford to invest 1.2 billion dollars in Michigan assembly plants Wikipedia: Edison Assembly Samarins: Ford Ranger 1998-2011 common problems and engines Image credits (resized and cropped for video): Maps: Natural Earth (public domain). --- Voiceover is produced with AI text-to-speech. Licensed photos are credited above; other photos are courtesy of their respective owners; archival film is public domain. #history #cars #RayStricklandCars