Would you buy a PowerBoost Ranger?

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Powerboost Ranger would be awesome, and I will trade in immediately and get this one. With this Powerboost Ranger, you will be able to go anywhere camping on the BLM. Can run anything on your travel trailer! Just plug in the 30 amps to the Ranger. I definitely need several jerry cans, although.
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I don't feel like that F-150 transmission is much...if any...bigger than the normal one. You're seeing a lot of transfer case there. (I haven't seen it in person, I'm sure there are nuances I'm not picking up on)

If our tiny little fuel tank is already protruding into the back seat storage, it may be tough to find a place to put a battery pack.

Obviously this stuff is solvable. Probably not with this gen of truck.
 

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I would love to have that to power my house during a blackout...
Your house?? That wouldn't even power your Ranger with all those lights you have! ?
 
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I wonder if there are any members who have driven the 150 with PowerBoost and can share their experiences with us? Ford's approach to electrification seems to be based on the assumption that people will buy hybrids, PowerBoost, all-electric vehicles as long as they are adding power, not sacrificing it--and I think that they are probably right about that....
 
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I wonder if there are any members who have driven the 150 with PowerBoost and can share their experiences with us? Ford's approach to electrification seems to be based on the assumption that people will buy hybrids, PowerBoost, all-electric vehicles as long as they are adding power, not sacrificing it--and I think that they are probably right about that....
Hybrids got off on the wrong foot with Prius and Volt snoozemobiles. Truth is they have a lot to offer when implemented properly. I think the Mach E is going to have reasonable success since it's fast and big enough to be useful. Not just a virtue signaling turd car.
 


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This would be cool for camping and power outages. I don't see Ranger having this though. From a market standpoint, it pushes Ranger up in price and out of their target market.
I wish they'd get their head out of their backside and make higher end options available on smaller vehicles. There is a market of people who can perfectly well afford an f150 but just don't want something that big. I'd have given ford more money for more features in my ranger, but ford left that money on the table.
 

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I'm definitely repeating myself today, short answer is YES.
Longer answer is that our '20 Escape Hybrid gets 40MPG and is amazing in sport mode. My Ranger gets 21MPG and if a Ranger Hybrid was available that got 34-40MPG I'd be in line at the stealership for a test drive for sure.
 

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I wish they'd get their head out of their backside and make higher end options available on smaller vehicles. There is a market of people who can perfectly well afford an f150 but just don't want something that big. I'd have given ford more money for more features in my ranger, but ford left that money on the table.
I'm confused because offering higher end options on smaller cars is what Ford used to be known for. Focus Titanium anyone? What specific options were available on the F-150 that you couldn't get? Remember, Powerboost was't out yet.

Of course, now that they dropped the cars you have to get your Titanium trim in an SUV, but still, it's available.
 
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What specific options were available on the F-150 that you couldn't get? Remember, Powerboost wasn't out yet.
Integrated trailer brakes
Cooled seats
Good storage solutions
Box lighting
Modern interior, thinking specifically about the gauge cluster
Fold flat rear seat
Moon roof

Ranger is a stepchild that was rushed. It is what it is, and they have my money already. But there's lots of room for opportunity.
 

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I'm confused because offering higher end options on smaller cars is what Ford used to be known for. Focus Titanium anyone? What specific options were available on the F-150 that you couldn't get? Remember, Powerboost was't out yet.
wow, really? cooled seats, heated steering wheel, fully auto adjustable seats (not electric except for the seatback angle), seat position memory, dimming side mirrors, 360 degree camera, adjustable pedals, trailer backup assist, park assist, wireless phone charging, integrated brake controller, dash cluster that's not recycled from a 10 year old escort. there may be more I'm forgetting. oh, the sunroof that I don't want but some people are crying over. :) look, the ranger is a decent truck, good value for the money and typical of the midsize segment, but it's literally missing a decade of tech compared to other ford products. a good number of the above were available 5+ years ago on an f150 lariat, some are newer or on limited/platinum trims (which don't even exist for the ranger). between not wanting to invest too much bringing the ranger over from australia and not wanting to cannibalize f150 sales, they definitely cheaped out on what they put into the ranger.

and how hard would it really be to enable hd radio on a supercab?

I do suspect that after seeing that people are willing to pay upwards of $60k for a gladiator they just might offer a couple more options in the next gen ranger.
 

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I wouldn't expect Ford to just take the drivetrain from the Powerboost F-150 and try and stuff it into a Ranger. Obviously that will likely not work. But a similar design of powertrain is not out of the question at all. It's certainly possible to downsize a system, which seems obvious to me if you're putting it into a smaller vehicle like the Ranger anyways.
Only speculation on my part but I think a plug-in hybrid Ranger's powertrain may be similar to the plug-in hybrid Explorer:

https://fordauthority.com/2020/05/2...s-in-europe-with-impressive-power-efficiency/
 

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Everything mentioned is pretty readily available on most other mid-size trucks, so I don't doubt a lot of it will become available on the next generation. If nothing else just so they can be competitive.
It's weird though, none of the trucks in the midsize segment when the ranger came out were available fully loaded. They all had stuff that some of the others were missing, and at least for me the ranger had the best mix of the bunch. I think that was due to a manufacturer consensus that they couldn't sell an expensive midsize. Then the gladiator came along and offered at least more than anybody else's midsize (still not everything you can get on a fullsize--I think you're wrong about the full list being readily available) and pushed the price to $60k, so maybe gm & ford will rethink things. (The other open question is whether ford will make a really nice ranger, or insist that you have to buy an f-series to get all the goodies. Time will tell. They really should have just called it an f100 and added the sales figures to the rest to give GM the finger.) The nissan will continue to be a pure budget play, and toyota will continue to have to be dragged kicking and screaming into changing anything on the tacoma.

I personally don't want any of that stuff, but I can see how someone would. So hopefully they still offer the lower end options (or lack thereof I suppose) while still adding some. Ideally they'd keep XL, XLT, and Lariat trims, then add another couple on top of that. Instead of raising the whole grouping to that higher level. Or have more variation within the trims.
Absolutely. I'd also really like it if you could get all the goodies inside without compromising the actual utility of the vehicle. (No, I don't want 22 inch wheels and low profile tires!)
 

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Well that looks pretty darn good. I wouldn't mind having that kind of efficiency and range in a Ranger. I don't know if it'd be quite as powerful in a Ranger, nor would I necessarily want it to be. I don't need 450hp and 608lb-ft. Slap that electric part onto a smaller EcoBoost though and I'm in.
The other articles I posted here states that it will be our 2.3 Ecoboost in the plug-in powertrain. It may be what you are hoping for.
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