Re: New Service Trucks

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

"tourman" <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Jan 23, 6:16 pm, "Mark Leuck" <m..le...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From what I understand the Ranger is being discontinued next year
> which is a
> > shame, mine now has 140,000 miles on it and it runs fine. I don't like
big
> > trucks and it looks like now nobody will make small ones, the Tacoma
doesn't
> > look bad but it's not that small either
>
> RHC: Mark, I agree with you. The Ford Ranger has been my only service
> vehicle for both locksmithing and alarm work since 1983. I bought my
> first one back then, and started leasing new ones every three years
> since 1997, simply shifting the expensive cap I own to each new
> vehicle and getting it painted as part of the transfer. The Ranger has
> always been a great little truck, and now that I have to hand back the
> current 2005 one in May 08, I will sorely miss this little truck.

I used to hate Fords for the sole reason my dad did, I was given a Ranger
work truck and I think after 100,000 miles the only problems I had was a
rear shock broke and a starter went out.

My personal Ranger has decent power with a 4 cyl, gets 22 mpg in the city
and almost 30 highway.

Now if GM would bring a Holden VE Ute in and rebrand it El Camino I might
bite

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/08/22/holden-finally-reveals-ve-ute/