Anyone think the new 2024 rangers look like mavericks?

[Cmar]

a coyote V8 5th Gen ?

Enjoy. Where this was filmed is literally 10 minutes drive from where I live.

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[MountainGoat]

Enjoy. Where this was filmed is literally 10 minutes drive from where I live.

"We've retained the 10 speed auto"

 

[Fordup]

Awesome motor cover ?.

 

[Kristina]

They are not even from far similar.
I kind of don’t care about the look anyway, what it does and is capable for is important.
Oh, one thing about the look is important - windows needed some additional tint

 

[TJC]

They still use PCMCIA readers?

I use them for the IEEE 1284 Bidirectional communications capability to control esoteric hardware boards that control stepper motors. I initially used serial ports but WinXP kept interrupting the data stream causing problems. 8 bit bidirection buffered communications took the load off of WinXP.

Built my wife's automated quilter using them with an old laptop. I later updated to obsolete small CNC computers (about the size of 3 Raspberry Pi-4s) that had the port built in. Got the 3 entire computers at an auction for less then the price of a single PCMCIA card ($10.99!) One man's junk is another man's treasure!

Modified/stripped WinXP and installed it to a compact flash card to use as the bootable hard drive.

Been running it for 12 years now with nary a hiccup! Wife still uses the thing weekly. Her large quilts consumes almost a 1/2 mile of thread! The machine works essentially like a very large plotter of old, but with a great deal of modifications. Once the design starts to be printed (sewed) you can't stop until you get to the other side. You can pause and back up, but you can't exit the pattern. One pass of a 12"-18" row takes from 30 minutes to 2 hours depending on the complexity of the design.

A fun project to build and earned me a lot of brownie points.

 

[TJC]

Enjoy. Where this was filmed is literally 10 minutes drive from where I live.

Impressive! I want one. I'm not going to ever get one, but I want one!

 

[Cmar]

Impressive! I want one. I'm not going to ever get one, but I want one!

Yes this is the Raptor that Ford should have built, not the same great body released with a crappy 2.0 diesel that had a lot of it's own problems at release that we got. Such a great - almost.
There were plans to release a model like this, with full factory warranty, converted by local contractors, as a market tester, prior to putting it into production, then it was called off. I hope that local manager got their just rewards.

 

[Cmar]

I agree the government CAFE standards are screwed up. Along with all the safety equipment to protect us from our own stupid selves. Most of the issue is marketing and our own greed and egos. It is the "bigger is better", "more power is better", "fancier is better" attitude that prevails today. Not "what do I need" but "what do I want". All of this is fed by the marketing people. And, wwe buy it.

I worked for 40 years in the consumer products industry as a mechanical designer. We were always under pressure for annual product improvements, so marketing could advertise "New and Improved", "Now More Effective", Now Bigger" or "Better Fitting". Of course we also worked on process improvements so we could make more product faster and cheaper.

Do you really think it costs Ford that much more to make a similarly equipped F150 than a Ranger? Not Really! The F150 may even be the same based on quantity breaks, they make so many more. Sure there are added features that the Ranger doesn't have, but those are made up for in the add-on packages. What they are selling you is air, more room. It is all about perceived value.

The Ranger gets bigger so the marketing guys can advertise something new or changed. No real incremental cost, just one time tooling change. Justify that price increase. Does the customer really notice that extra 2" of width, maybe. Does he really "NEED" that extra 2" of width, probably not. But, marketing can now advertise "Now roomier, increased interior space". Instant perceived value added.

I must be different than the average consumer. I buy a vehicle or anything else to do a job I need, not as a status symbol. I bought my Ranger because I needed it to pull a certain size camper that my old Ranger could not. I needed a truck because I do haul things from time to time that will not fit in my wife's compact car. The Ranger fit my purposes perfectly. I do not need an F150 that will not fit in my garage and use more gas.

OK, rant #2 over

What you say is true enough, my father was a mechanical engineer for 50 odd years so I do understand some of this.
The problem is of course that it actually costs comparatively very little more to build a bigger vehicle that a smaller one, the steps and assembly labour involved are the same, the only difference being a little bit more material.
But of course the bigger it is, the more you can charge for it because "bigger is better" I do wonder just how much of this is contributing to the slow disappearance of small cars from the market place.
You either have to accept a lower profit margin on them or you have to raise the price to the point that no one will pay that much for a "small" car.

 

[Cmar]

I use them for the IEEE 1284 Bidirectional communications capability to control esoteric hardware boards that control stepper motors. I initially used serial ports but WinXP kept interrupting the data stream causing problems. 8 bit bidirection buffered communications took the load off of WinXP.

Built my wife's automated quilter using them with an old laptop. I later updated to obsolete small CNC computers (about the size of 3 Raspberry Pi-4s) that had the port built in. Got the 3 entire computers at an auction for less then the price of a single PCMCIA card ($10.99!) One man's junk is another man's treasure!

Modified/stripped WinXP and installed it to a compact flash card to use as the bootable hard drive.

Been running it for 12 years now with nary a hiccup! Wife still uses the thing weekly. Her large quilts consumes almost a 1/2 mile of thread! The machine works essentially like a very large plotter of old, but with a great deal of modifications. Once the design starts to be printed (sewed) you can't stop until you get to the other side. You can pause and back up, but you can't exit the pattern. One pass of a 12"-18" row takes from 30 minutes to 2 hours depending on the complexity of the design.

A fun project to build and earned me a lot of brownie points.

That sounds interesting. One of our good friends is a former electrician who has carved out a career for himself in putting good quality CNC controllers on imported Chinese CNC machinery. He says a lot of the hardware is quite well made, but the the controllers are invariably cheap, crappy, buggy, and poorly made. So replaces them with quality European, Japanese, or US made controllers, and re-programs them. You would think that this would be highly specialised work, and therefore sporadic, in fact he's run off his feet, and travels all around the state and even interstate doing this!
Modern electronics are great, I have two 3-D printers and control both of them through Raspberry PI's, it's just so much easier and less mucking around with SD cards etc. You can actually keep tabs on them remotely and shut them down if you have filament tangle or dislodged print.

 

[TJC]

That sounds interesting. One of our good friends is a former electrician who has carved out a career for himself in putting good quality CNC controllers on imported Chinese CNC machinery. He says a lot of the hardware is quite well made, but the the controllers are invariably cheap, crappy, buggy, and poorly made. So replaces them with quality European, Japanese, or US made controllers, and re-programs them. You would think that this would be highly specialised work, and therefore sporadic, in fact he's run off his feet, and travels all around the state and even interstate doing this!
Modern electronics are great, I have two 3-D printers and control both of them through Raspberry PI's, it's just so much easier and less mucking around with SD cards etc. You can actually keep tabs on them remotely and shut them down if you have filament tangle or dislodged print.

I am using Raspberry PI 4s with LibreElec for my TV/Move/Music collections on my Synology servers. Getting ready to use a Pi3 for my local DNS server as well. Wonderfully flexible product.

If I hadn't already built the quilter with the old CNC computers, I'd have probably used a Pi for that as well.

 

[Cmar]

Awesome motor cover ?.

Yep it does look good, I'd be tempted but can't really justify spending that much on my daily driver. Although daily driving would be that much more fun... I'm sure my better half would consider the money better spent elsewhere, although I can't imagine where that would be. Maybe I should start looking for a Raptor with a blown 2.0 litre, Ecoblue, shouldn't be hard, they are a somewhat questionable engine.

 

[LT Dangle]

They look so different apart... but when they're together.....

 

[natefiggs]

Impressive! I want one. I'm not going to ever get one, but I want one!

I watched and read the article on that monster. Would be a dream to fit a coyote in there.... just not paying that outrageous amount. The work that goes into that fit is insane!! At least we know its possible haha!

 

[Cmar]

I watched and read the article on that monster. Would be a dream to fit a coyote in there.... just not paying that outrageous amount. The work that goes into that fit is insane!! At least we know its possible haha!

Maybe if you give them a call and ask nicely, they can put together and ship over a kit for you to have done locally by a similar company in the US, crate Mustang engines would probably be much cheaper over there, and your vehicles are already set up for petrol power.

 

[Todd Chapin]

2024 Ranger...saw my first the other day at my dealer. MEH

2024 Ranger Raptor I would trade my paid off 2019 in a second if I could buy one with X plan pricing???

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