My Thoughts Exactly: 2024 Ford Ranger Raptor
We were fine with the North American Truck of The Year winning Ranger. Except it was missing something.

We were fine with the North American Truck of The Year winning Ranger. Except it was missing something.
TweetThe Ford Ranger certainly had a wild ride for the past 43 years. It became the Blue Oval’s answer to the import compact truck in the summer of 1982. If you ask me, they did this one right compared to other domestic automakers. They gave it a long life until Ford shut down the Saint …
We should celebrate the positives. That includes those vehicles which made our work an enjoyable one.
All of the sudden, there is expanded business for the full-sized cargo van, as Amazon have taken control of their deliveries.
We were fortunate to take the wheel of two 2024 Mustangs – a Dark Horse (twice) and this GT Premium.
The five stripe decal and interior insert gives each Free Wheeling model a look that beckoned consumers to take them to the beach.
There was a time when we became comfortable. Comfortable enough to let post-war designs to simply just be normalized.
While we wait – perhaps in vain – for a Shelby-massaged model, we have the Dark Horse as the highest performance version of this iconic coupe.
It is also the last surviving American brand front engine V8, rear wheel drive sport coupe in its class being produced.
I figured I do a bit of ancestorial work to look at some of today’s models. Especially those that wonder why they were named such some generations ago.