Could never understand America trying to develop a compact like Pinto when Ford Europe already had Cortinas and Capris that could have served as a better basis for a North American specific vehicle.   I don’t know of any situation of a cortina or Capri being hit up the back so hard that they would set fire to themselves….   Truly shows how incompetent Detroit engineers were at the time….

The Ranger PHEV is a hard sell in Australia because it’s more expensive than the V6 diesel Ranger sales in Australia are about 4,500/month, PHEV is like 200 of them so far.. Correct, time moves on and haven’t been watching this segment closely but clear that Maverick is a product Ford US has wanted for quite a while, it completes and complements Ranger better than a 2WD BOF T6 could.

That's already happening with the demise of the supercab.   If they aren't expanding Bronco sales then they'll probably keep Ranger.  But if the new affordable pickup is a unibody that's $5k cheaper then it's expendable.

It will keep you from having a flat on the side of the road and ruining your wheel.  Last I checked you can't check your pressure with a gauge going 70.

Yes, guess I did not think that through enough.  But this makes me wonder, since Ranger is designed and developed in Australia where it has a PHEV power train, is it a non-starter to develop a Ranger Powerboost hybrid version for North America? 

That is not good advice. I recently had a TPS warning while towing my boat on the highway. I pulled over and sure enough I had a nail in the tread. If I had ignored it my tire would have been destroyed.

Like someone else alluded to, the Vega rusted while it was on the assembly line!  My boss used to give me brand new Ford pickups every two years when I was selling auto parts on the road starting in 1966. When the oil crisis hit, he put me in a Pinto!  One day I had to pull over because every once in a while a wire or something came loose. I can't remember the details. But what will stick in my head forever is that one time I put the hood up and placed the prop rod up. So I'm under the hood and a gust of wind from behind blew the hood up, the rod fell, and the hood fell on my head. And akirby no wisecracks!  So anyway, all I could think of was that if an alien spaceship had been observing this scenario, they would have thought cars eat people!!!!

Talking about oil cos., I read that Citgo -- and apparently only Citgo --  is Venezuela owned.

I pay no attention to TPS idiot lights. Just check the pressure, but don't forget spare. Just another annoyance.

That’s the problem with companies saving money by doing evolution design, they keep a lot of overall shape and do styling fiddles and tech under the skin.   Or, you could be like Chevrolet, change the entire platform yet Camaro looked the same, now that was a waste.