What with the soaring of gas prices these days, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the maker of America’s beloved pickup truck, Ford, is planning on not one but two compact size pickup trucks.
One of the said compact pickup trucks is based on the F-150. It has the code name of P525 but may be badged as F-100. If you remember (or if you know your Ford history), the F-100 is the prototype of the F-150 way back during the 1950s. Ford is getting rid of the V8 engine for the P525. Now they are planning to tuck a four-cylinder, V-6 EcoBoost engine under its hood (as an option, of course). It has gas direct injection, as well as turbocharging. But what about the other compact pickup truck? The second small pickup truck is based on the Ford Ranger.
The new Ranger has the code name “T6” and is known as the global Ranger. It will be manufactured in Thailand but will be imported from South Africa due to “chicken tax” issues. Another possible location for the manufacturing of the T6 is Australia. After all, it is exempted from the so-called chicken tax.
It is known to the public that Ford is currently struggling with the dip in their sales for their F-Series pickup trucks. Gas prices continue to shoot up and Ford better counter-attack this issue. Could these two compact pickup trucks do the trick?
source: Motor Trend
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