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00:00G'day, I'm Paul. Last year we published a video about the 2022 Ford Ranger and the Ford Everest.
00:05We went over some of the engines that are coming to the cars and also some of the features you can
00:08expect. Well, today we have some new information. We've got some spy footage that'll give you a much
00:13closer look at the inside and the big vertical screen that's coming to both of these models,
00:18along with a recap of what we've had previously. So we're going to split this video into two parts.
00:22We'll run over the stuff that we already know and that we have built on since our last video.
00:26We'll also have a section there with the new spy footage so you can get a closer look at the
00:30interior. And finally, we'll finish it up with my take on this and what it means for the industry.
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00:38so you can find out every single time we publish one of these videos. But let's get started.
00:44Let's kick off with what we already know and what we've covered in our previous video. A lot of
00:48that information is now solidified and we're a little more confident in terms of it coming to
00:52reality when these vehicles are finally released. Keep in mind as well that the information that
00:56we're talking about now is likely just to be for the Australian and Asian markets. The US market
01:00might get a slightly different variant of this information, so keep that in mind. Don't hold
01:05me to it if the US doesn't get exactly what we have here. So we know with Ranger and Everest that
01:09they will finally kill the 3.2-litre diesel. That is dead at the end of this current generation of
01:14Ranger. They will get three new engines, making four engines in total. That means the 2.0-litre
01:20four-cylinder twin-turbocharged diesel will carry over. That's mated to a 10-speed automatic
01:24transmission. It produces 157 kilowatts of power and 500 newton-metres of torque. It's available as
01:30a rear-wheel drive in the Ranger or full-time four-wheel drive in the Everest, and it's likely
01:35that they may also offer some variants of the Ranger as full-time four-wheel drive as well.
01:39Whether it includes this 2.0-litre diesel is unknown just yet. We also think they might get
01:44a slight power or torque increase as well. This engine's been around for a little while now. The
01:48rest of the competition has caught up. We have HiLux now at 500 newton-metres of torque as well,
01:53and Ford may bump this up ever so slightly when they do finally roll out this next generation of
01:57Ranger and Everest. Next up is a three-litre turbocharged V6 diesel engine. We reported on
02:04this last time that it was used in the F-150, and it started production in 2018 in that vehicle.
02:09Well, since then it's been discontinued from the F-150, and that means that it may not see life in
02:14the Ranger here, or they could simply exclusively use that engine given how much they have put into
02:19developing it just for Ranger and Everest. It produces 186 kilowatts of power and 600 newton-metres
02:26of torque. It too is mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission, but the difference here is that this
02:30will be full-time all-wheel drive. There won't be a rear-wheel drive option. That's way too much torque
02:34to just send through the rear wheels, and it's likely this will be available both in Everest
02:38and Ranger. The engine is just for the Australian and Asian markets. There is a chance it'll be
02:42made available in the US, but the US is very much a petrol market. Given it has been discontinued
02:47from the F-150, we may see it discontinued altogether from the Ranger program for the US.
02:52Finally, we have an engine that is likely to just be placed inside the Ranger Raptor
02:57and the Everest. Now, we don't know whether this will make it to the Australian market. The
03:00Australian Ranger Raptor may get a 3.0-litre V6 diesel, but we do know that this is shoot-in for
03:05the US market, and it's a 2.7-litre turbocharged V6 EcoBoost engine. It's a petrol. It produces
03:12242 kilowatts of power and 542 newton-metres of torque. It too is mated to that 10-speed
03:18automatic transmission that Ford co-developed with GM. We know that this is coming to the
03:23Ranger because it is used in the Bronco, and that uses a slightly modified version of the
03:27Ranger platform. We also have this screenshot here from one of the Ford development computers
03:32that shows that it is used inside Ranger, which makes it logical that they will use it for the
03:37next Ranger Raptor. Whether it is available for the Australian market, we don't know yet,
03:41but if it is, it will be permanent all-wheel drive. It won't just be rear-wheel drive,
03:45but they will probably engineer some system that allows it to send torque to the rear for
03:49Baja mode and for fun drifting stuff. Now, finally, one of the engines that we
03:53think is going to be fitted to both the Ranger and Everest is a plug-in hybrid. This is one
03:58that's used in the rest of the Ford family, and it's a 2.3-litre turbocharged four-cylinder
04:02petrol engine with a plug-in hybrid system attached to it. We understand that it'll
04:06produce 270 kilowatts of power and 680 newton metres of torque. That's a fairly meaty setup,
04:13and it should mean that these are very economical vehicles, and it is important for the Australian
04:17market when you consider where we're heading in terms of regulations for emissions. Car
04:21companies like Ford, who produce utes and lots of utes, want to have these vehicles available
04:25for fleets that are emissions-conscious. They'll be able to purchase one of these and know that
04:30the emissions are going to be limited. So, it'll be interesting to see whether Ford launches with
04:33that immediately or whether that will come down the track later on once there are more regulations
04:38around the emissions on these commercial vehicles. OK, next up, let's talk about the
04:43new information we have today, and that is the Ranger and the Everest interior. So, we exclusively
04:48revealed last time from our top-secret source that the interior of the Ranger and Everest are
04:53going to go super high-tech and feature the vertical screen found in the new Mustang Mark
04:58E. Now, since then, Ford has revealed that this screen is coming to the F-150 Lightning,
05:03and as you can see here in our spy footage, you can see that giant vertical screen. So,
05:07it's a 15.5-inch vertical infotainment system with SYNC 4, which is Ford's latest version of
05:13their SYNC infotainment systems. We think that this will be reserved just for the top-end models.
05:17The lower-end models will get a smaller 12-ish-inch screen, and that'll be in place of that
05:22vertical screen that does everything from your climate controls through to radio and nav. We
05:26think that the smaller screen will then house manual controls beneath it, but will still be
05:30fairly big in comparison to a lot of the competitors in this segment. In addition to
05:34that, our spy footage shows that these vehicles have a 360-degree camera, so finally, the Everest
05:40and the Ranger will get that technology that's been available in other vehicles in this segment
05:43for a little while now, and hopefully with a screen that size. They've gone with high-resolution
05:47cameras, so we can actually get some benefit out of that technology. If you do look close as well,
05:51you can see a shark fin antenna on the Everest, so that replaces that standard aerial that we've
05:56seen on the previous generation. The other curious thing as well is that the Ranger in these images
06:01has rear disc brakes, so that could be reserved just for the V6 model, or it could be for the
06:05entire range, but given how long drum brakes have been around and that a lot of the Chinese
06:10competitors, for example, are using disc brakes now, I think it's about time these manufacturers
06:14finally caught up and started fitting disc brakes to these models, and you probably need them when
06:18you're sticking a V6 diesel engine inside, or even for the Raptor, that bigger turbocharged V6
06:24petrol engine, you want to be able to have the stopping power when you need it. The other thing
06:28that's unclear at the moment with the utes that we've seen is the suspension. We don't know whether
06:32they're going to retain leaf springs or whether they'll all go down the path of the Ranger Raptor
06:35where they get a coil sprung setup. We can see in some of the spy photos we've had previously of the
06:40new generation Rangers, they've had the street sweeper style spy photo preventative measures on
06:46the rear suspension and also the differential. That could mean that Ford is hiding the fact that
06:50these are going to coil spring instead of leaf spring, or they could simply do what some
06:53manufacturers do, which is fit leaf springs to entry-level models and then coil springs as you
06:58move up the range for that extra comfort without really compromising your load capacity. Now, what
07:02does this mean for the rest of the vehicles in this segment? Well, I reckon they could be in for
07:06a bit of a tough time. Ranger is currently the second best-selling vehicle in Australia and
07:10sometimes takes that first position away from the Hilux, but if you are sitting the new generation
07:15Ranger up against the Hilux or even up against the rest of the utes in this segment, it could
07:19mean that the offering from Ford is well and truly above and beyond what's available from the
07:24competition, and if that's the case, you really don't have any reason to buy anything else. I mean,
07:28why would you buy a car with an 8-inch infotainment system when you can get something with a giant
07:33infotainment system like that? Obviously, it all needs to work well if you're a trader, you're
07:37wearing gloves and you've got dirty hands, you want to still be able to use the screen, so that
07:40will all still be seen once we finally get a chance to test them, but it could mean rough
07:45times ahead for a lot of the competitors in this segment and increasing sales for Ford.
07:49For the auto industry as well, if Ford does finally reveal a plug-in hybrid or a hybrid
07:53version of their vehicles, it'll mean the rest have to play catch-up. Toyota obviously has access
07:57to a lot of this hybrid technology in the rest of their range and it'll mean fitting it to the
08:02Hilux is pretty straightforward, but the other competitors in this segment are still quite a
08:06way away from having hybrid technology available, so the first ute in Australia with hybrid tech
08:11will get that run with sales, especially with fleets that are conscious of emissions and
08:16pulling their outputs down, so it'll be really interesting to see how the rest of the manufacturers
08:20react to this information when Ford finally does reveal the Everest and Ranger.
08:25Okay, so that is a wrap of the new information we have. If you have any questions or any comments,
08:30what do you think about the design, what do you think about the interiors of these vehicles,
08:34and if you do see any of these out on the road testing, make sure you send us an email,
08:37send us through your pictures and any video stuff that you get to carexpert.com.au,
08:42you can just contact us through there and we'd be really keen to see it.
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