What It Is: A 2019 Ford Ranger test mule spied in action near Ford?s Dearborn headquarters. Despite wearing a black-and-white coating of wavy dots, the sheetmetal is very similar to that of the Ranger currently sold overseas. This is far from shocking, as we?ve long expected that when the Ranger returned to the United States it would be closely related to that vehicle. Yes, there is a small chance that the truck pictured here could just be using the global Ranger?s body for testing and evaluating foreign-market powertrains, but some visual cues point to American aspirations: The test mule?s twin-bar grille looks to be a downsized version of the unit found on the refreshed-for-2018 Ford F-150, and the same can be said of the taillights?indications that the finished product we?ll soon get won?t stray far from the truck seen here. READ MORE ??
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