Building the New Ford Ranger

[ski3pin]

What a process to set up to build a new truck

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Building autos has come a long way from Henry Ford's first assembly line.
That video is awesome.
Frank

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Pretty cool! I’m still hoping for a crew cab with 6’ bed...

 

[Alley-Kat]

Sorry Steve, the 2019 Ranger with Crew Cab has a 5' bed, not a 6' bed.

Build your 2019 Ranger the way you want it, just not a longer bed on the Crew Cab.
Click between the Super Cab and the Crew Cab and you'll see you get more room in the bed or more room in the cab, but, not both.
P.S. if you want, change the ZIP code from mine to yours (I didn't back up enough in my web browser).

 

[ski3pin]

I built - on line - a Nissan Frontier yesterday and saw an option for crew cab 6' bed. Didn't order one.

 

[Vic Harder]

I want one of these little trucks to come with a supercab and an 8' box!

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

A-K, that’s why I’m not ordering this year.

 

[Alley-Kat]

W-S, you're probably not ordering for a couple of years, if ever, the way Ford is now going in their new direction.

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

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

 

[Alley-Kat]

Steve, here you go.

A Ranger Chassis Cab.
Make it into a flat bed of your choice.

(Saw that in the recent truck payload thread)

 

[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!

 

[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.

 

[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 !

 

[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.