First 2023 Ranger prototype spotted!! [UPDATED with more close-up photos]

[DHH]

Looks to me like the sheet metal in the box bulges out in the corners. Please tell me those are stake pockets.

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[Tra1969]

I think I spotted one today on the way home from Ann Arbor on I94. Couldn’t get a pic.

 

[NY35]

I think I spotted one today on the way home from Ann Arbor on I94. Couldn’t get a pic.

Yes please! And get CLOSEUPS if you can

 

[Bertbronco]

I thought it was coming out this July and going to be a 2022 model.

 

[Bertbronco]

UPDATE:

We've captured additional close-up photos of the 2023 Ranger prototype which show details of the front end, headlights and suspension bits.

See the top of the first post for additional pics.

why do you call it a 23? I thought the new Ranger was coming out in 2022. I thought the reveal was happening later this year?

 

[Bertbronco]

That is just not accurate, because those photos were taken exactly TWO YEARS, NOT ONE. I say that, because it gives a very false impression of the product development going on behind the scenes with P703.

P703 design approval was 2 years ago at that point in time, which is why you saw such a leak and the associated corporate anger at the leak, resulted in extreme hiding of U725 VP1s all of 2019.

It has been withheld from exposure just the same, which COVID-19 negatively affected. New Ranger will now launch close to global truck, at Wayne Plant. I know Job 1 now, but can't disclose it, because I don't want to risk being the sole source of such information.



Wasn't "last year", it's actually been 2 full years. That was shown in a local Australian clinic in January 2019.

When I told many of the folks on Bronco6G that the U725 and CX430 final designs were completed in mid-2018, they didn't want to believe me.

Development takes a very long time, that what is new today, was fully drafted in that same shape years ago by our design team. The next Ranger design was approved by management half a year after the Bronco. The first P703 VP1s were built months ago.

Is the Ranger launching this year? Any idea when reveal will be? I thought this was going to be a 22 model and launch end of 2021

 

[John B+9]

UPDATE:

We've captured additional close-up photos of the 2023 Ranger prototype which show details of the front end, headlights and suspension bits.

See the top of the first post for additional pics.

Very nice. Thank you! (BTW, first post. Jumped over here from Bronco6g. Thanks for being here!)

 

[P. A. Schilke]

I think I spotted one today on the way home from Ann Arbor on I94. Couldn’t get a pic.

My take is that Hancook is toast....Goodyear Wranglers seem to be the OEM tire. Fuel drain is SOP....

Best,
Phil Schilke
Ranger Vehicle Engineering
Ford Motor Co. Reitred

 

[Motorpsychology]

Is the Ranger launching this year? Any idea when reveal will be? I thought this was going to be a 22 model and launch end of 2021

Both.
The last I read on Blue Oval Forums and Ford Authority was the Global Ranger would launch ahead of the North American Ranger. The NA version was set to launch the fall of 2022 as a 2023 model year. Now there is a stop ship on the Mach E for quality check, Bronco Sports held at Hermosillo, F150s sitting at KC and Dearborn for quality checks, so who knows for sure?

 

[Sergeant Gearhead]

Nice! Curious what the interior will look like? I'm hoping to see a 12-inch screen with SYNC 4 (as an option) and nicer design/quality with the redesign. What does everyone else think?

 

[Steve Boehm]

Nice! Curious what the interior will look like? I'm hoping to see a 12-inch screen with SYNC 4 (as an option) and nicer design/quality with the redesign. What does everyone else think?

That's one of the reasons I'm waiting for the new model. Updated "gadgets" and the possibility of a twin-turbo V6.

A bonus will be the updated exterior styling to fit in with the current truck line.

Otherwise, I'd be ordering a 2021 Tremor in Rapid Red.

 

[Motorpsychology]

Nice! Curious what the interior will look like? I'm hoping to see a 12-inch screen with SYNC 4 (as an option) and nicer design/quality with the redesign. What does everyone else think?

8" screen is plenty for me. Longer armrest, standard heated mirrors & rear window defrost, less hard plastic and a Voodoo V8 option would be nice!

 

[DHH]

Nice! Curious what the interior will look like? I'm hoping to see a 12-inch screen with SYNC 4 (as an option) and nicer design/quality with the redesign.

8" screen is plenty for me.

8 or 12, doesn't really matter to me. What REALLY matters is whether it is in dash or stuck on like a tablet. The new trend of placing tablets on the dash makes me . Looks like an afterthought.

 

[toddiscdn]

Please not a square brick mini f150

 

[Sergeant Gearhead]

8 or 12, doesn't really matter to me. What REALLY matters is whether it is in dash or stuck on like a tablet. The new trend of placing tablets on the dash makes me . Looks like an afterthought.

I agree with you partially on this. It just depends on the type of car that you put the tablet-style screen in and how well you do it. The Escape's screen setup isn't bad, but the ones on the Explorer just look tacky (that and the weird fake exhaust pipes). This tablet screen design trend should just stay in the compact car/SUV segment. The trucks should keep their (whatever size) screens integrated into the center stack since it looks more akin to something a truck would use.

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