Doubtful.. If you remember the Bronco launch after the video in July Ford openly started testing them. If anything I’m guessing these may get the beat up testing treatment.
as someone who gets press loans no major auto would want early trucks out. Some AJs look to pick apart the trucks.
When I worked for a major auto company we would run trials in batches. 1 truck a day then stop for a few weeks. Maybe a dozen a few weeks later. We called them PT1 (early runs) and by late PT2 runs they could be sellable.
since production isn’t till summer I would say these are very early runs...
There are no scheduled drives for Ranger yet, These are trials for future productions. They fine tune stamping and all computer controlled welding. These will get scrapped after engineering is done with them