When you’re wanting on the Australian Ford Ranger line-up and really feel just like the 21-strong vary is lacking one thing, this could be it.
Now on sale within the UK is a single-cab Ford Ranger with a bath – one of many few permutations of the best-selling ute we don’t get in Australia.
In actual fact, Australia has been and not using a tub-equipped single-cab Ranger since 2018, when the entry-level XL 4×2 was priced from $29,190 earlier than on-road prices.
At current, the Australian Ford Ranger is just offered with a bath in tremendous and double-cab guise, with the single-cab remaining completely as a cab-chassis providing ranging from $36,880 earlier than on-road prices.
The UK-delivered, South African-built Ranger single-cab is offered completely in base XL trim, with its tub capable of accommodate hundreds as much as 2332mm in size – or 785mm longer than the double-cab in Australia.
As with Australian-delivered, Thailand-built variations of the Ford Ranger, the UK’s XL single-cab ute can be solely accessible with a single-turbo 2.0-litre four-cylinder diesel engine, producing 125kW of energy and 405Nm of torque.
In contrast to the latest-generation Ford Ranger offered in Australia, all XL and XLT variants within the UK are outfitted with a six-speed guide transmission, reasonably than the 10-speed automated. The guide was killed off domestically when the previous-generation mannequin reached the top of the street in 2022.
Excluding the UK’s 20 per cent value-added tax (VAT), the Ford Ranger single-cab with tub is priced from £28,275 earlier than on-road prices – equal to $56,700 in Australia, with out our personal 10 per cent items and companies tax (GST) utilized.
It’s unlikely we’ll see this distinctive ute in Australian showrooms, given the low uptake of the final model offered domestically.
Final month Ford Australia trimmed the Ranger’s local line-up, reducing 4 variants from the vary to slim down its choices to solely 21 grades.
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