FORD RANGER - Everything You Need to Know | Up to Speed

Jul 30, 2023

FORD RANGER - Everything You Need to Know | Up to Speed

The Ford Ranger is one of America’s most beloved pickups! This small wonder conquered the road with innovative design and unrivaled capability. Join James as he explores the Ranger’s history from the Ranger F100, Ranger GT, Ranger Splash, and new 2019 Ranger! There might even be a Raptor in there too!

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2.21 -> [Music]

4.339 -> four ounces of power one cup of utility

8.429 -> three tablespoons of fun add gas or

11.309 -> diesel to taste and mix together in a

13.17 -> bowl made by masa buon apple tea this is

17.43 -> everything you need to know to get up to

19.109 -> speed on the Ford Ranger before the

25.35 -> Ranger was the Ranger it was a high-end

27.81 -> trim level for Ford's f-series trucks in

30.21 -> the Bronco starting in 1965 it was a

32.64 -> popular upgrade package but it would be

34.649 -> almost 20 years before the Ranger became

37.26 -> its own entity all it took were a few

39.87 -> major national crises and almost going

42.809 -> under for Ford to realize they needed to

45.45 -> do something different let me set the

47.73 -> scene for you

48.75 -> it's the 1970s everybody's got Saturday

52.14 -> Night Live fever my dad was setting up

54.449 -> family franchises all across the US and

57.239 -> the gas crisis was about to rock

59.28 -> people's world and the only companies

62.07 -> that saw it coming

63.51 -> were the Japanese truck manufacturers

65.339 -> trucks like the Datsun 521 in the

67.65 -> original Toyota Hilux started gaining

69.96 -> popularity so when the gas crisis hit in

72.84 -> the early 70s and fuel availability

75.6 -> became more of a concern Japanese truck

78.509 -> manufacturers already had a steady base

81.27 -> while American manufacturers were caught

83.759 -> off guard their truck line was all big

85.92 -> bad full-size hawkers like the

88.68 -> surfboards back then have you ever seen

90.78 -> in this summer

91.74 -> Ford was frantically searching for a way

94.17 -> to dip their little toes into light

96.36 -> truck market and they weren't the only

98.13 -> ones Chevy and dodge were in the same

100.17 -> boat like some weird formal sock-hop

103.02 -> chevy partner with isuzu dodge partnered

105.6 -> with Mitsubishi and Ford

107.31 -> partnered with Mazda then they danced

109.59 -> awkwardly to Oh town

112.97 -> boredom a Mazda do all the work

115.02 -> designing light truck then they slap

116.61 -> their name on enter the Ford courier

119.52 -> this little daddy was a rebadged Mazda B

122.909 -> 1800 it was imported as a cab chassis

126.259 -> configuration without the truck bed

128.039 -> attached to circumvent the chick attacks

130.08 -> you know that annoying tax on light

132.66 -> trucks that keeps us from having cool

134.22 -> things why does it call the chick

136.62 -> attacks well American chickens were

139.5 -> selling so well in Europe that European

142.17 -> chicken farmers gone yes so some

145.2 -> European countries started taxing

146.94 -> American chickens to combat that

149.04 -> economic impact of that tax America was

152.79 -> like oh yeah

154.23 -> we'll show you will tax your lap trucks

156.81 -> that you guys love importing it's super

159.209 -> weird but it's true the 1972 Ford

162.33 -> Courier had a 1.8 liter four-banger that

165.12 -> spit out 74 Shetland ponies and 92

168.75 -> pound-feet of torque it had a four-speed

170.91 -> manual transmission and an impressive

172.68 -> load capacity of 1,400 pounds or

176.12 -> fourteen fourteen-year-olds the mazda

179.31 -> import was given a facelift to look more

181.5 -> like a ford a new grille that was an

183.6 -> homage to the larger f-series and large

185.82 -> single headlights that did away with the

187.68 -> small double ones on the japanese truck

189.87 -> the courier wasn't meant to last forever

191.82 -> though in 1973 OPEC placed an embargo on

194.97 -> any country that supported Israel

196.98 -> luckily board had something cooking in

199.23 -> the kitchen that year they kicked off

201.87 -> project

202.95 -> Yuma you see the courier was just a

204.81 -> stopgap while Ford was developing their

207 -> own secret compact job over the next few

210.06 -> years light trucks continued to gain

212.04 -> steam as full-size truck sales became

214.2 -> stagnant then in 1979 just when it

217.62 -> looked like things might be getting

219.239 -> better Iran had a revolution and really

221.609 -> shook things up Ford had just launched

224.25 -> the new full-size f-series line and a

226.62 -> massive LTV sedan which would later

229.29 -> become the Crown Vic they were barely

231.09 -> breaking even on sales and were almost

233.28 -> forced to scrap project yuma to cut

235.95 -> losses but then CEO Don Peterson stepped

239.88 -> in he was all nope we're keeping it for

244.17 -> two reasons

245.54 -> GM is about to come out with their own

247.61 -> compact trucks plus I think we can sell

251.18 -> the Yuma for the same prices the f100

253.519 -> even though it costs us a lot less to

255.95 -> produce okay sounds good can we go to

259.22 -> lunch now it was like the late 70s so

261.53 -> they probably steaks and big loaded

263.84 -> baked potatoes and pike glasses full of

265.94 -> whiskey with no ice it was probably

267.53 -> after a couple of those big old

269.12 -> whiskey's they decided to rename the

271.34 -> compact truck from Yuma to Ranger after

274.039 -> the top tier f-series trim of the same

276.44 -> name so much research went into the

279.44 -> Ranger like so much you guys

281.81 -> they scrapped old plans and added exotic

284.09 -> lightweight magnesium for the clutch

285.74 -> housing brake and clutch support

287.539 -> brackets that alone cut 20% off the

290.84 -> trucks weight they also spent a lot of

292.91 -> time improving aerodynamics like a front

295.01 -> bumper spoiler that added one MPG by

297.919 -> itself

298.52 -> good job bumpers spoiler the final truck

300.949 -> design had a drag coefficient of 0.45

303.05 -> which bark tells me it was pretty good

305.06 -> for back then 1981 marked the last year

309.32 -> that both the f-series and Bronco

311.18 -> carried the Ranger trim level Ford

313.28 -> halted it in anticipation for the new

316.28 -> trucks release and in 1982 was a plus

321.11 -> 513 and in 1982 13 years before post

325.55 -> Malone was born production started on

327.949 -> the all-new Ford Ranger and nowhere else

330.979 -> but Louisville Kentucky exactly where my

335.449 -> parents started production on me when my

337.97 -> dad put his evil inside of my mom it had

340.61 -> taken ten years but finally in 1983 the

343.13 -> Ford Ranger made its the but all in all

345.56 -> they spent seven hundred million dollars

348.77 -> in early eighties money developing the

350.84 -> Ranger with most of the cost coming from

352.729 -> designing a fuel-efficient engine that

354.56 -> complied with cafe regulations the 1983

357.65 -> Ford Ranger offered three different

360.05 -> engines a two liter inline-4 originally

362.479 -> from the Pinto a 2.8 liter cologne v6

364.58 -> and a Mazda Bill 2.2 liter four-cylinder

367.94 -> diesel the power range from 59

370.46 -> horsepower in the diesel to a monstrous

373.25 -> frame bending 115 her Spurs in the B

382.31 -> truck beds came in either six foot or

384.71 -> seven foot versions and had a load

386.45 -> capacity of 1600 pounds the Ranger was

388.82 -> noticeably thinner than her older

390.59 -> f-series brothers but that didn't stop

392.39 -> engineers from designing the bed to be

394.97 -> big enough to carry a four foot wide

397.13 -> sheet of drywall which Bart tells me is

399.8 -> considered an industry standard

401.57 -> initially right off the bat sales of the

404.33 -> Ranger were hurt by the competition from

406.79 -> Chevy and but Don Peterson and Ford

410.09 -> needed the Ranger to work failure to

412.82 -> sell the small trucks meant something

415.01 -> bigger than just shutting down

416.78 -> production of the Ranger it meant total

420.74 -> catastrophe

422.33 -> luckily boards stuck it out and by 1985

425.18 -> they were selling two hundred and thirty

427.04 -> thousand Rangers a year the first

428.72 -> generation of Rangers lasted almost ten

430.85 -> years in production that's almost as

433.07 -> long as I was in high school during this

434.72 -> time many trim levels were introduced

436.49 -> including the Ranger XL the Ranger XLT

438.83 -> which was like the excel but with a tee

441.47 -> and the range of GT the GT came with a

443.75 -> redesigned clone v6 engine that put out

446.71 -> 140 grass fed buff horses none of that

449.81 -> corn-fed BS for my horses only oats

452.54 -> grass and sugar cubes when they're good

455.39 -> introducing the first sports car that

457.82 -> comes

458.51 -> [Music]

460.11 -> the new Ranger GC another option for the

464.159 -> Ranger dubbed the super cab included an

466.919 -> extra 17 inches of cab space the Ranger

470.099 -> high rider STX came out in 1987 this 4x4

473.28 -> was so much sicker than any Ranger that

476.25 -> came out before it it had bed mounted

478.409 -> light bars and a tubular grille guard

480.87 -> the high rider also had an extra one and

483.84 -> a half more inches of ground clearance

485.9 -> coincidentally this is the year that the

488.939 -> Ranger became the best-selling compact

490.8 -> pickup truck in America do you believe

495.09 -> we almost scrapped this project did only

497.61 -> one think about it let's just celebrate

498.96 -> a 1989 redesign in honor of Taylor

502.169 -> Swift's birth added a Mazda made

504.33 -> transmission new front fenders and

506.55 -> dashboard and an instrument panel with

508.62 -> improved legibility the Rangers new

511.199 -> flush mounted grille was added to mimic

513.209 -> the grille of the f-series the updated

515.519 -> super cab got center face and jump seats

517.979 -> increasing passenger capacity to five

520.349 -> dilfs the second gen Ranger was

522.599 -> introduced in 1992 flush mounted door

525.66 -> glass wider doors and fender flares gave

527.79 -> an updated appearance old engines like

529.86 -> this dinky 2.9 liter cologne v6 in the 3

533.1 -> liter Vulcan were retired and in their

534.87 -> place bigger engines and more power babe

537.029 -> well power baby well power baby more

539.19 -> power baby

542.94 -> then in 1993 board came out with the

546.91 -> most nineties talk ever made the 1994

551.26 -> Ford Ranger splash and splash super cab

554.22 -> it came with spicy aluminum wheels and

557.65 -> totally twisted decals that let everyone

560.29 -> else on the beach know the only things I

563.29 -> haul are boogie boards Zima and big

566.98 -> busted babies various small cosmetic

570.01 -> changes happened over the next few years

571.72 -> including you guessed it a new grill

575.11 -> a new hood safety upgrades and even a

577.84 -> six disc CD changer hmm and the Ranger

581.65 -> remained a solid choice throughout the

583.72 -> 90s in 1998 the third gen rager made its

587.08 -> de but this new Ranger had evolved to

589.81 -> have a wider wheel base a bigger cab and

592.27 -> longer bed engineers replaced the twin I

595 -> beam front suspension that had been

596.47 -> standard since the beginning with

597.91 -> wishbone suspension and added rack and

599.95 -> pinion steering yeehaw

601.72 -> the base model four-cylinder was

603.22 -> upgraded bumping the power up 6% the v6

606.46 -> got an upgraded intake manifold and

608.41 -> increased torque but 14% cosmetic

611.32 -> upgrades included yeah a new row bear

614.17 -> bear bear an aluminum hood bigger rear

616.24 -> glass which increased visibility plus

618.22 -> pulse

619.6 -> vacuum hub locks so you could go

623.11 -> off-roading without waking up your dad

625.66 -> but maybe the most innovative thing to

628.06 -> come from the third-generation Ranger

630.16 -> was the introduction of the Ranger II V

633.46 -> bet you didn't know Ford made an

635.14 -> electric truck in the 90s no I didn't

637.6 -> know that I did know that it was powered

640.63 -> by a rear mounted 90 horsepower electric

643.42 -> motor that had a top speed of 75 miles

646.42 -> per in a range of 35 to 50 miles for a

649.48 -> vehicle named the Ranger you'd think it

652.18 -> would have more range it only lasted for

656.8 -> four years until 2002 when Ford pulled

660.07 -> the plug oh like trucks started dying

666.94 -> out in the early 2000s in their places

668.95 -> bigger boys like the GMC Canyon Kota

671.23 -> Tundra and Nissan Frontier started

672.64 -> selling more

673.47 -> and more sales of the range of decreased

675.36 -> in America then the recession of 2008

678.15 -> hit compact truck sales shriveled like a

680.64 -> baby turtle and it looked as if the

683.46 -> Rangers days were numbered Ford had a

685.41 -> new Ranger set to launch in 2011 but

688.11 -> they took it out in the backyard and

689.85 -> shot it in the face the Ranger went from

692.82 -> being the best-selling compact truck 13

695.61 -> years in a row to dying a quiet death in

698.07 -> 2011 but with any good story there's

701.34 -> always a twist ask M night Shyamalan

703.59 -> he's the best filmmaker ever like I

705.66 -> mentioned before Mazda have been selling

707.91 -> a rebadged Ranger as the B Series in the

710.43 -> US from 1994 to 2009 Mazda was also

714.3 -> selling the B Series in places like

716.49 -> Australia Asia Europe South Africa in

720.18 -> New Zealand and they continued to do so

722.73 -> even after the Ranger was discontinued

725.01 -> in America Ford thought it was too close

727.32 -> to the f-150 to sell in the US but

729.36 -> overseas it was a smash

734.27 -> [Applause]

735.61 -> the legacy of the Ranger was not lost

738.18 -> seven million Rangers have been sold

741.82 -> since 1983 making it one of the

743.92 -> best-selling trucks and vehicles of all

746.89 -> time 2019 marks the first year that

749.68 -> board will debut a new Ranger in the US

752.56 -> since they discontinued them in 2011 the

755.17 -> new 2019 Ford Ranger won't have a v6

757.96 -> option the only engine available for us

760.42 -> Rangers as of now is the 2.3 liter

764.44 -> inline-4

765.46 -> eco bows which puts out an impressive

769.14 -> 270 turbochargers Perry's new Ranger has

772.39 -> the best-in-class torque of 310 Turks

775.33 -> and comes standard with a 10 speed auto

777.58 -> but no manual option it's only available

780.43 -> in three trim levels the XL the XLT and

782.92 -> the 4x4 lario there's been some talk

785.95 -> about a ranger Raptor come in the u.s.

793.47 -> quick announcements starting next week

795.7 -> we're gonna start uploading up to speed

797.41 -> a little bit later it's gonna go up at 9

799.96 -> a.m. Pacific Standard Time which means

802.09 -> it's noon for you fools on the East

803.89 -> Coast so don't freak out when it's not

805.99 -> up at 7:00 because it'll be up at 9:00

808.36 -> bye thanks for watching up speed smash

810.97 -> that like button we get 25,000 likes in

814.33 -> a day

814.93 -> I'll take suggestions for something

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