‘Best Buy’ title comes Ranger’s way again
When your bakkie doubles as your office, a smart design makes all the difference.
The Ford Ranger is designed for purpose, not just tough but purpose-built tough.
It delivers a bold new front end, new interior trims, and is packed with innovative new features.
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What hasn’t changed is the Ranger’s safety credentials and range of cab styles to suit every need.
When your bakkie doubles as your office, a smart design makes all the difference.
Packed with technology and features to help you work smarter and play harder, the new Ranger is Ford’s most advanced bakkie.
It’s built tough … and safe, with numerous airbags (depending on the derivative), including side and curtain airbags, along with a reinforced safety cell help to make every journey a safer one.
Leather seats are a combination of leather and high-quality, durable materials.
When traffic is crawling along, it can be easy to miss someone suddenly stopping up front.
At speeds over 3.6km/h, pre-collision assist with pedestrian detection is designed to detect if the car in front has unexpectedly stopped or a pedestrian stepped out onto the road, it can automatically apply the brakes if you don’t.
You’ve got enough heavy lifting to do.
Load your new Ranger with greater ease, thanks to the tailgate with lift assistance that now requires 70 percent less effort to close.
By monitoring road markings, it detects if you appear to unintentionally move out of your lane.
If you do, your steering wheel will vibrate to warn you.
If lane-departure warning continues it will also direct you back into your lane by applying steering torque, unless your indicator is on.
It’s not only on dry land that the new Ranger proves that it can take you just about anywhere you need to go.
A river-taming 800mm makes sure there’s very little that can come between you and getting the job done.
(800mm water-wading capability is standard on all new Ranger Hi-Rider derivatives when maintaining a steady speed of 7km/h.)
New improved diesel engines have big power but small appetites.
They deliver more than just big power numbers – they’re more fuel-efficient than ever.
So you can spend more time on the move and less time at the fuel pump.
Engine derivatives are the: Single Turbo (132kW/420Nm), Bi-Turbo Diesel (157kW/500Nm), 3.2L TDCI (147kW/470Nm) and 2.2L TDCI (118kW/385Nm).
confirming its popularity as the number one choice amongst used car buyers.
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