Ford sells a lot of trucks. The F-150 has been one of the best selling vehicles in human history for a number of decades now, and there is absolutely no shortage of Blue Oval fans all over the planet. The F-150 and its big brother, the Super Duty.
are the absolute bread and butter of Ford trucks. When it comes to pickups of a smaller stature, meanwhile, there's the Maverick, a little ute that proved to be one of my favorite vehicles I drove all year. Between the two extremes sits the Ford Ranger, a pickup which has struggled to grab its share of the spotlight in its current iteration.
After a week spent evaluating the 2024 Ford Ranger , I pretty quickly fell in love with it. I'll say right off the bat that it's not a truck you should sleep on, if you're in the market for a utility vehicle. After a long hiatus, the newest generation of Ranger came back to life for the 2019 model year.
Since then, it hasn't changed a lot apart from some quality of life and powertrain updates. The Ranger I was saddled with wasn't a Raptor model , or a base model XL like Ford expects a tradesman to be driving. Instead, the 2024 Ranger XLT sits right in the middle of the lineup: a work truck in that it has cloth seats and not the fanciest interior, but it's also a commuter and potential family car in that it's a four door, a body style Ford refers to as "SuperCrew.
" Under the Ranger's "Velocity Blue Metallic" paint color is a body-on-frame pickup like the trucks of yore. What's not old fashioned i.
