JP, actually the commercial truck guy at my dealership has told me that 600 has robbed from 550-that was probably almost a year ago.  I guess the attraction was 4WD in a 600 at 22,000 GVW and a "friendlier " truck for the inexperienced driver to handle vs high hood of a 650.  As for 750's this guy stocks mostly 750's with derated plates-26,000 gvw.  Trucks look heavy with high rated big rubber-no clue if they are 10/23 axles but one thing they do is avoid a cdl driver and the FET tax for a 33,000 gvw.  Probably should spend some time and go through the order guide  instead of guessing.

I like the wide body look this and the raptor have. If there was an appearance package on ranger that offered this without spending 60k for a raptor, I’d be all over it.

The Squircle wheel arches probably look weird to us Ford fans but clearly intended to draw sales away from Toyota buyers  but also adding clear differentiation between the Super Duty and regular Ranger models like Raptor, tremor and Sports.   It is what it is and for the intended buyers (Toyota/commercial) probably reinforces what they are used to or like. If this was developed in the US, I see Ford looking to pinch Tacoma buyers.  

Now I can't unsee it...  

I’m wondering because if Canada doesn’t tax F150 sub assemblies, Oakville may be able to assemble semi knocked down kits…   Forgive me for being the eternal optimist but manufacturers used to  have creative ways of getting around tariffs and other impediments… Fingers crossed for you friend…

True, it is harder to make a business case for this sort of truck in the states considering we have the f-series. But on the other hand, I do believe there's a sizable group of buyers who would love an overbuilt super capable, virtually indestructible truck that's the size of a ranger, and much easier to live with day to day than a massive f-150 or normal super duty.    At the very least, I'd like this to lay the groundwork for the ranger refresh design whenever we end up getting it here, because this thing looks awesome, much cooler than a normal ranger imo. 

It works better as a coupe than a convertible. I agree that the interior is great!

Normally, I’ve taken those Heavy Truck sales to mean F650/750 because there were other figures I used to get from Crain that indicated that  as Ino longer have that data subscription as bloody expensive.   What I suspect is that F600 has done exactly what Ford wants and halved F650 sales with a lower cost truck based on an extension of F550. There’s no sign of Ford ending Heavy Truck production but I agree with Bob’s previous comments about offering more industry standard equipment otherwise sales will zero out. last time I looked back when F600 was in first year or so, F750 we’re only a small fraction of the figures  Heavy truck sales, in the order of a couple of hundred, it might be better or worse these days…

An appearance package for the Raptor would sell better here.  Very small market for that much capacity and overlap with F150.

Yep.  At least they were back in 2008.  If you lose your job or you’re worried about losing your job or losing significant income then you don’t make big unnecessary purchases period.   If your income is secure then it’s business as usual.  There was no spike in Midsize truck sales when F series dropped by 30%.