Ford released its 2025 sales figures showing some pretty strong Ranger growth:
70,960 units for the year which is +54% year over year. They didn't break out sales per trim but are saying the XL sales jumped 82% year over year, Lariat trim 24% year over year.
My '24 Lariat has Park Assist with the mechanical shifter, so I have to do the shifting. I'm 2 months in the Baltimore area (Mother recovering from MAJOR surgery) and parallel parking endemic here while pull in parking feels significantly narrower than it does in my native environment, Florida...
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cars/news-blog/ford-recalls-more-than-a-million-vehicles-for-backup-camera-issues-44514142
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2025/RCLRPT-25V315-2916.pdf
It's not a huge volume of Rangers, 2024's built between Jan 13 2023 - Jul 24 2024, 3907 Rangers.
Ford says...
I just did an I-95 run from Florida to Maryland today, highway running, highway back ups, driving thru DC and in town driving, and I got a majorly impressive average gas mileage. I wasn't towing. I had myself and about 200lbs of luggage and crap with me. I had the adaptive cruise on, speed...
All of my intended additions are done, the last piece showed up today.
I added the hood protector/deflector this afternoon, from Husky Liners.
The running boards were installed by the dealer when she was bought a month ago, part of the deal.
The bed cover is in place, soft top tri-fold from...
I was cleaning the interior of my '24 Lariat and took a close look inside that front console slot to see if it was dirty with crap. Well.....there's a little icon in there that seems to say Ford thinks this slot is for holding french fries!
I have a new '24 Ranger Lariat, I am noticing that regardless what I'm doing, including coasting down hill in neutral, the fuel economy bar graph never reads above 30ish mpg. Is this a "working as intended" thing?