For those speculating that the Ranger/Bronco will be mid-sized and therefore too big and thirsty, I guess you all missed this quote in the articles:
"Ford’s truck group marketing manager, Doug Scott, told USA Today last year that Ford was considering bringing a smaller pickup back to the U.S. but that its price and size would need to be different enough from the F-150 to make it worthwhile.
"We're looking at it,” Scott told the paper. “We think we could sell a compact truck that's more like the size of the old Ranger, that gets six or eight more miles per gallon [than a full-size truck], is $5,000 or $6,000 less, and that we could build in the U.S. to avoid the tariff on imported trucks.”
A compact truck with say, the 1.5 ecoboost to start, would easily be low 30s mpgH wise. In the Fusion 25/37? AWD 2.0 is 22/31.
Use the 2.5 for the base/cheap version
All definitely worth it CAFE wise.
My .02
Brian S.