Ford Ranger News

Last week, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced its 2010 Top Safety Picks and the results surprised many.

Affordability, accessibility, qualitya *the hallowed trifecta at the center of the debate over health care reform.

Once, compact pickups were truly that: Light duty, nimble versions of those hulking behemoths called half-tons. Over the years, however, the big 'uns got more car-like and the little 'uns got, well, bigger.

Although our latest intel doesn't have either coming to the States anytime in the near future, we had to bite at the opportunity to ask: Which would you prefer -- the Volkswagen Amarok or the global-platform Ford Ranger? Both manufacturers are hard at work testing their models.

There is an incessant demand from most Americans for continuation of all approved government programs at the federal, state and local level.

There's been a lot of talk in the news recently about how many people used Cash for Clunkers to swap old F-150 for a new F-150, yielding a fuel-economy increase of between 1 and 3 MPG.

2001 was a long time ago, though, and the past eight years haven't exactly been stellar for the Blue Oval.

The whole vintage automobile market is a thriving multi-million or billion-dollar industry because we, as a people, are sentimental.

When you take delivery of a new pickup truck, you expect that it has all of its parts.

The eye-opening fuel prices of the past year or two revealed the harsh reality that an automobile with all the horsepower and luggage room in the world is essentially worthless if you can't afford to fill its fuel tank.

Ford CEO Alan Mullaly says that there are no plans to sell Ford's next-generation global Ranger compact pickup in the U.S., according to a report in Automotive News .

For many years Ford's sales performance in the United States has been linked closely with its top-selling pickup truck and SUV lines, but with demand for such vehicles continuing to slide the Blue Oval has acknowledged that its future lineup will have to feature much more small cars.

Ford Ranger in Thailand is living like a rock star! Meanwhile the US Ford Ranger gets a white background for its beauty shots My brother-in-law will be crushed, Ford CEO Alan Mulally has told the industry trade publication Automotive News that the United States will not be getting the Australian developed "global" T6 Ranger when the current Ranger ...

You might have been warned about putting all your eggs in one basket, but what if you put all those baskets safely in a classic truck? Even though Gary Caton's '48 Chevy started out life as an egg truck and anything but classic in post-World War II's burgeoning America, it would take more than half a century to be treated as such.

The most common deals under the government's $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program, aimed at putting more fuel-efficient cars on the road, replaced old Ford or Chevrolet pickups with new ones that got only marginally better gas mileage, according to an analysis of new federal data by The Associated Press.

The most common deals under the government's $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program, aimed at putting more fuel-efficient cars on the road, replaced old Ford or Chevrolet pickups with new ones that got only marginally better gas mileage, according to an analysis of new federal data by The Associated Press.

Wish Granted Reader Scott Lepping from Green Lane, Pennsylvania, sent an email with some pictures of his '48 GMC five-window pickup.

Notes: This 2007 Ford Ranger Sport features a 3.0L V6 FI 6cyl engine. It is equipped with a 5 speed automatic transmission.

And man, did we go crazy . Before the cheap-gas bubble burst, slightly more than half of all passenger vehicles sold here in America were SUVs.

Jack Wickett, left, and brother Gerald was awarded three trophies during the Kool Cars, Guitars, and Handlebars car show Oct.