SNEAK PEAK
SEE THE TRACKS AT FORD’S PROVING GROUND
THE next-generation 2022 Ford Ranger should be hitting showrooms about the same time this magazine is hitting the newsstands, and Ford Australia has managed a calculated drip feed of information about the new cars for the past year.
While the official release date is in June, we got our first chance to get up close to Ford’s new truck back in November 2021 when we were given access to a prototype vehicle and the engineers behind them. Joining us at Ford’s secretiveYouYangs Proving Ground near Geelong, Victoria, were Pritika Maharaj, Ranger and Everest program manager, and Ian Foston, chief engineer for theT6 platform on which the Ranger, Everest and Bronco are built.
The vehicles at hand are known as TT prototypes. That is, they are the first vehicles to come off the production line inThailand as opposed to the earlier prototypes that are hand-built at Ford Australia’s Broadmeadows facility. As well as the two factories inThailand where the Australian production cars will come from,
