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Agreed. I have the Michelin Ice-X on our Subaru Outback. The only bad thing I can say about these tires is that they breed overconfidence on snow and ice because they are so amazingly effective. Over the years I have had only a few instances where they car got anything close to squirrelly...

Have just passed a year and 12,000 miles. Nearly 6,000 of those miles were towing our 6,000 lbs trailer. No notable mechanical issues to date. (knocking on wood) Average around 20 mpg town & highway. (w/o trailer) The little 4-banger and 10-speed took a while to get used to, but after a...

A feature I miss from my previous Ford is the keyless entry keypad on the door. Where I live, most of the places I tend to go where I'd like to not take the key with me lack cell signals, so unlocking (or pre-warming) from the app are not reliable options. I just take the fob.

If I have any serious disappointment with my Ranger, its with how inadequate the displays are and how the gauges & twin screens on the Lariat work. I have to take my eyes off the road and thumb around the menus too much to see what I want to know. And it's surprising that a truck that has such...

I love the SuperCab and the suicide doors. First thing I did was to pull the back seats. It's so easy to load stuff in the back, especially in parking lots. Since a lot of people are buying the Ranger as an SUV alternative, SuperCabs are significantly more rare than the SuperCrews are. Mine...

I keep a detailed log over the last year and 12,000 miles. I average around 20 both highway and in town. Occasionally I'll drive a stretch of highway and get close to 30. The speed on the interstate here is 80, and the mileage really drops over 65. In the summer, my Ranger is mostly used for...

I'm now at a year and 12,000 miles and have had no significant mechanical issues. Half of those miles have been towing our travel trailer all over the northwest. I purchased the Ranger because I wanted to have occasional nominal off-road capability, tow our travel trailer spring into fall, and...

1. Totally with you on that, and my adventures with that are well documented elsewhere here. To proudly market this truck as having "Best in Class Towing" and no available controller was absurd, if not misleading. 3. I've thought the exact same thing. All this technology and automation, and...

2019 Lariat and mine light up. (3/19 build) Although since it doesn't indicate which gear you are in at that location, I really don't see the point.

I had just got on an uphill onramp to the interstate when I noticed in the rear-view mirror some kid in a rice-rocket about 200 feet back who thought he was going to pass me before the merge. I think this was the first time I'd ever floored it in my new Ranger. I was nearly a quarter-mile...

A SuperCab with the seats removed makes for a very comfortable bed location. He can get up and participate in the trip at will.

Crate and bungee.

I alternate between towing a trailer and not, so I get some rather interesting and extreme estimations of miles to empty. With the trailer, it's not unusual to get the "50 Miles To Empty" alarm with over a quarter of a tank remaining. The algorithm they use to estimate remaining range is the...

Again, I never felt the need to be litigious because my matter was resolved before it became a critical issue for me. I didn't want retribution against the dealer or Ford; all I wanted was a truck that could tow my trailer as I was told it would. But had I needed to, I have little doubt that...

Actually, it does. Being informed about the products they sell is the dealer's responsibility, especially when they proudly proclaim a capability that actually did not exist and consumers act upon it. If someone sells you a product that cannot reasonably perform the function for which they are...

I walked into my Ford dealership looking to purchase a truck that could tow my travel trailer. My requirements were explicit, and I was told that the Ranger would be able to fulfill my requirements. Ford's documentation confirmed this. The only issue was that I'd have to have an after-market...

Unfortunately, I was not purchasing a truck to pull a trailer with surge brakes. And no where in Ford's documentation was there any qualifier that said "* only applies to trailers with surge brakes".

How is that not true? Last fall, I went into my dealer to buy a truck that could tow a 6,000 trailer. "No problem" they said. But it was.

I'd take that deal, and hold them to the $94 install price. They clearly don't know what they're in for yet. My dealer charged me the $339 for the controller but comped the install to keep me happy after selling me a truck with "Best in Class Towing" which in its delivered state was unable to...

Yup. Had this happen a few weeks ago with our Lariat when we were behind schedule leaving for vacation. We don't usually drive after dark when towing our camper and we were getting flashed quite a bit. I noticed that our low beams were hitting some lower highway signs. Our weight-shifting...