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Originally Posted by au2000
Sadly the comment re future ranger models being considered to be combined on the f150 platform is no surprise, it was raised a few years back and in typical yank form at some point they will get jealous of what the team in vic can do….
Insert .. no Aussie falcons to the usa here…
Hope it’s not all wound up for Australia, but it would not be the first time that ford USA kills off what works here and implements their own ideas
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I still think the 300,000+ global sales of Ranger means it needs to be a separate vehicle which sells into far more countries than Ford US has ever had to deal with. Unless Ford US can develop a vehicle for two size classes and not add too much cost/weight to the smaller version....and the whole reason Ford is going through the global redundancies including at Ford China is mostly due to reducing product development costs, their efficiency being worse than some competitors for R&D....except for Ford Australia's engineering team which easily ranks more efficient than the other Ford development centres when you combine quality of talent, expertise and cost.