New '24 Ranger - Delivered to Dealer in December, Any Concerns?

Kelly L · May 13, 2025

It took awhile, but I finally picked it up today! I'm going to miss the fuel economy of my old 3.0 Duramax, but I'm ready for something smaller. Test drove a Canyon Denali after I drove a 2.3 Ranger - the Canyon superficially looks nicer, but there's a lot of hard plastics in there where the ranger has soft-touch material. I also accidentally put the Canyon into Low instead of Drive at one point - I could see that happening a lot and getting annoying. The Ranger (even with the 2.3) felt quicker, despite the significant HP and torque advantage in the Canyon's 2.7.

Thanks for everyone who responded to this thread. My Ranger only had 116 KMs on it, so I'm guessing it pretty much just sat on the lot since December for whatever reason.

RangerDangerStranger · May 15, 2025

2.3L's are under rated.

Mean Dean · May 15, 2025

RangerDangerStranger said:
2.3L's are under rated.

I'm very impressed so far with the factory 2.3L, pretty peppy in sport mode. Trying to decide if I want to get the Ford performance tune and bump it up a bit.