2011 Ford Ranger. Nice one!

I gather its Oz Ford designed to be built in Thailand and other places for world distribution. Mazda are getting a version of it too.

Ford Australia are crowing about it. Nice to think Australia is not the backward hole in the ground that some would have us believe.

Know what you mean about the old BT50 I looked at it before getting another Rodeo.

It will be $ many G's $ cheaoer than the Lux, that makes some difference.

More like the other way round. Also don't shout at people.

From themotorreport.com.au

2011 FORD RANGER
Update: new details added.
Unveiled last Friday at the opening of the 2010 Australian International Motor Show, Ford's all-new 2011 Ford 'T6' Ranger has received a rapturous response from showgoers and TMR readers.
Developed in Australia alongside the 2011 Mazda BT-50 over four years, the new next-generation Ranger forms part of Ford's ONE Ford stategy - the same plan that drove the design of the new Focus.
“Australia has played a leading role in the development of this latest global Ford product,” Joe Hinrichs, President of Ford Asia Pacific and Africa said.
“Ranger is symbolic of how our great product development capability is being leveraged by the ONE Ford plan like never before.”

Development of the new global Ranger represents a $1.8 billion investment, with approximately 450 local engineers involved in the project.

Totally designed at Ford Broadmeadows in Victoria, and what a great machine,its not a Mazda at all, but who knows what it'll be rebadged as.

Mazda's involvement in the development of the T6 global truck was limited to Mazda-specific issues such as corporate styling, equipment and features. Sure they had input into other aspects of it, but they had a back seat role.

In fact, Mazda threw a little hissy fit over who should have been awarded the engineering and design lead for the project, as they said Ford Australia was too "immature" to conduct the project. Fortunately for Ford Australia, head office back in Detroit saw it differently.

There will also be an SUV derivative of this car, but it may not be sold here.

P.S. Ford's product development centre is in Geelong :-P

The new Ford/Mazda is the first of the next generation ute, making everything else look old, I have an ml triton, which I really like, but the new mn imho went backwards with the 2,5l t/d.
The new Ford is not following the trend of smaller motor with big turbo, hiphip hooray, they get my vote, and hopefully, all the important parts will be made by Mazda so it will also be reliable, 4 years ago work had a new Ford falcon ute that blew its diff twice in 6 months before they traded it in on a jap ute, which hasn't missed a beat.

Hmm Road Warrior, well when I was being shown through the Ford Design centre in Broadmeadows and actually saw a SUV version of the Ranger called the Expedition, it looked the good, I think all design is done at Broady, do you mean the Discovery Centre in Geelong?