Agree with your disagreement. My Ranger satisfies my towing needs completely and it fits in my garage with room to spare. The only thing that could make me love it more is a hybrid version. All this talk about Ranger going away is depressing and reinforcing my plans to order a 2026.
Kill F-150, make all F-Series Super Duty's, add an "F-200" as an entry level with slightly more capacity than the current F-150. It would still be #1 as those that want full size trucks are able to afford $8-900+/mo payments. Tool KCAP for Ranger (Maybe rename it F-150), DAP builds F-200s, or vice versa, introduce a Regular cab/8 ft box and add SuperCrew/6 ft box. MAP builds Broncos.
Isn't ranger what makes the fullsize bronco viable and bronco what makes ranger viable? Is there enough volume on t6 to justify just Bronco? I'd like to see a "regular" SUV on t6 and Lincoln variant too, kind of like tacoma/4 runner/whatever the lexus is. Maybe throw a Bronco pickup in there too on t6. Though I guess you might start running out of production room if they're all successful ... then maybe killing off ranger would make sense if it's the least profitable out of those, but might be worth expanding production if they're all successful and profitable.. would find it hard to believe that ranger isn't making money being built and sold everywhere.
Going by the automated graphic they are using for it on the article, it looks like it uses some sort of liquid cooling too, going by those two pipes sticking out of it and it snaking around the upper part of the housing.