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2024 Ford E-Transit Custom electric van revealed

July 5, 2022

The electric version of the next Ford Transit Custom van has been unveiled – but it’s not due in Australian showrooms until 2024. The next-generation 2024 Ford Transit Custom van has been revealed in all-electric E-Transit Custom guise – though first arrivals in Australian showrooms are not due until sometime in 2024. The next Transit Custom mid-sized van will be offered with conventional diesel power – or, in a first for the nameplate, an all-electric...

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Next-Gen Everest Specs Released

May 4, 2022

Ford Australia has confirmed specifications of its hotly anticipated Everest. The Ranger-based SUV will be offered from launch with the choice of 3.0-litre V6 or 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo-diesel engines with 184kW/600Nm and 154kW/500Nm respectively. Both will be paired to Ford’s 10R80 10-speed automatic transmission with two- and four-wheel drive configurations available within the line-up. Four grades: Ambiente, Trend, Sport and Platinum will be offered, with all available in 4WD format. Ambiente and Trend variants will...

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Ford F-150 confirmed for Australia

April 1, 2022

It’s official: Ford F-150 coming to Ford Australia showrooms next year. The Ford F Series pick-up will return to Ford Australia showrooms mid-2023 – after a 16-year absence – following the announcement today of a factory-backed local remanufacturing operation. Ford Australia has confirmed the Ford F-150 will be coming to Australia next year, and sold via its national showroom network with a five year/unlimited kilometre warranty alongside the rest of its model range. Before the Ford...

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Introducing the Next-Gen Everest

March 15, 2022

TOUGHER LOOKS AND MORE CAPABILITY FOR NEXT-GEN EVEREST SEVEN-SEAT OFF-ROADER A fundamentally overhauled new-generation Ford Everest has made its global debut clothed in butch sheet-metal and powered by a benchmark 3.0-litre V6 turbo-diesel engine. Like the outgoing model, the new Everest is an Aussie-developed member of Ford’s versatile T6 family, along with the incoming new-generation Ford Ranger ute with which it shares a significant amount of specification including the front two-thirds of its ladder frame, drivelines and...

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2022 New Ranger Raptor

February 24, 2022

The faster, more powerful, and even more hardcore second-generation Ford Ranger Raptor has been revealed in full, as the Blue Oval seeks to shore up its dominance in the performance pickup market. The headline news is a radically different engine: a 3.0-litre twin-turbo petrol V6 offering nearly twice the power as the outgoing diesel, and an exhaust system with variable valves for different sounds depending on driving mode. Ford also claims to have made this iteration even better at...

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Next-Gen Ranger storage and lighting solutions

February 10, 2022

NEXT-GENERATION RANGER DRIP-FEED CONTINUES AHEAD OF ITS MID-2022 AUSTRALIAN LAUNCH Ford has revealed some of the more utilitarian details about the highly-anticipated new 2022 Ford Ranger. Ahead of the all-new Australian-developed ute range’s local release by June, Ford says the next-generation ‘T6.2’ Ranger will go “all-out with a wider cargo box packed with features and opportunities to transform the space”. With a body that’s 50mm wider than before, the new Ranger’s tub will accommodate a standard European...

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New Ford Everest

January 6, 2022

FORD’S NEW-GENERATION EVEREST The second-generation 2022 Ford Everest that’s based on the incoming Australian-developed Ford Ranger has been officially previewed as it enters the final stages of testing ahead of its global reveal early 2022. Disguised in what the Blue Oval brand calls “digitised camouflage”, the design of the new-gen Ford Everest predictably draws inspiration from the 2022 Ford Ranger on which it’s based, featuring a similarly “tough dominating front-end” with a more “muscular side” profile. That muscular profile...

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New Ford Ranger: Bold design & High-tech

November 25, 2021

Aggressive looks and advanced technology combine in the Aussie-designed 2022 Ford Ranger ute The exterior look of the Australian-designed 2022 Ford Ranger was based on extensive customer research and two internally developed guiding principles: ‘Bring in the Future’ and ‘Built Ford Tough’. That combination of influences were refined by ongoing customer clinics as the design developed, resulting in what 2022 Ford Ranger chief designer Max Tran calls a “tough dominating front-end” and “more athletic and muscular side”. Three design proposals made...

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Next-Generation Ranger Reveal Date

November 2, 2021

First undisguised look at next-generation dual-cab 4×4 ute comes three weeks ahead of world premiere The next-generation Ford Ranger will make its world debut in a little over three weeks on November 24 at 18:00pm, Ford has announced. At the same time, the Blue Oval brand has provided our first look at an undisguised 2022 Ford Ranger, with this latest teaser image and video clearly showing the new dual-cab 4×4 ute’s fresh front-end design. As...

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Next-Gen Ford Ranger

October 27, 2021

Blue Oval brand shares next-gen Ford Ranger’s rigorous off-road testing ahead of 2022 launch Australian development engineers tasked with ensuring the new-generation 2022 Ford Ranger makes significant improvements over the current model have shared insights into what’s gone into the ute’s punishing testing regime. When it’s officially unveiled later this year ahead of a 2022 launch, Ford says the new Ranger will be the toughest, smartest, most versatile and most capable yet. In a video teaser released by...

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