Ford big shots actually admitting their mistakes? That's askin' a lot! 😄

I thought the same at first, but look at its size relative to the SUV in the right side of the picture/in front of it....

Indeed, Ranger was benchmarked against Hilux for global markets and it did well up against the competition…. Clearly Tacoma is different enough to require a mor North American styled and sized vehicle….

They also put weird cryptic images in their website videos. In chapel of love it has this plane ticket, the date Feb 17 2026 was when some storm happened in San Luis Obispo. I have no clue if that means anything, it was also the date they revealed the bounty shit for the platform. The flight boarding pass has other shit like an Indonesian airline flight # (GA3555) and San Diego 7:15 AM. I can’t figure it out.   the other video has this binary code that just translates to “Made you Look!” which makes me say fuck you to Ford.                

Fair enough, I actually really like the wrap around greenhouse look. We're so used to ford truck styling playing it safe that anything different like that gets my approval. It looks elegant. 

It might be but the wraparound glass greenhouse is a major change vs the current model. It looks slightly smaller to me at least. 

https://electrek.co/2026/06/29/fords-30000-ev-pickup-caught-testing-again/

Ford counted it in their light truck numbers, therefore it is a light duty truck market that they exited.   The rest is excuses.  They could have built it on the C2 platform if they hadn't decided to exit the segment and try to push their customers up market.   Good for them if they bring it back.  I hope to see them admit more of their mistakes.

I suppose that is a possibility. I remember reading articles (long ago) that said the Ranger PHEV was going to be 360 HP and 500 lb-ft of torque. But that was before we learned the Ranger PHEV was ROW only and they got a seriously de-tuned version of the 2.3 Ecoboost.   The F-150 Powerboost has a 47 HP electric motor in the modular 10R80 hybrid transmission where the Ranger PHEV has a 100 HP electric motor in the modular 10R80 hybrid transmission. A Ranger Powerboost might have ~317 HP (270 + 47) which is nearly the same as the 2.7 (315 HP).