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AIMING HIGH – IS NEW SPORT VERSION THE BEST EVEREST YET?

So, you might be wondering (as I was before I picked up Ford’s press ‘car’). What exactly ‘is’ this ‘new’ Sport version of the ‘Ranger-based Everest?

Bar the fact that from pretty much midway through 2019 Ford quietly dropped the original 3.2 litre five-cylinder single-turbo ‘Ranger’ engine and six-speed transmission for its new 2.0 litre four-cylinder bi-turbo ‘Raptor’ power plant and 10-speed auto trans, I wasn’t even aware that there was a second, slightly cheaper model on sale here.

Yet there it was on the Ford NZ website

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