Ricardo PLC is a company that often gets ignored by the casual four-wheeled enthusiast. Headquartered in a West Sussex coastal town, the British outfit was contracted by the Ford Motor Company to ...

This rockin’ Ford Ranger (a project more than a decade in the making) dismisses the four-cylinder 4BT Cummins conversion trend and instead packs six cylinders of Cummins power. To perform this swap, ...

So here's what I propose: It's time to start building our own diesel vehicles. I'm not suggesting that we all quit our jobs and start our own automotive manufacturing businesses. I'm saying I'd like ...

Ford has two turbo-diesel four-cylinder engines that it could offer in the Ranger Diesel. The first is a 2.0L single-turbo making 158 horsepower and 284 pound-feet of torque. That’s less than the 2.3L ...

These days we're surrounded by mega-buck high-end builds, so it becomes easy to forget that the essence of hot-rodding is going fast on the cheap. Yeah, we can appreciate the big-money builds, but for ...

A rain-lashed week of Raptor-driving seems forever ago, intermittent sunshine having been the backdrop for the latest seven days in Ford’s newest pickup. Wishing only for better economy perhaps this ...

For a company that comes up with pretty much a new generation of the F-150 every five years, it sure milked the Ranger for a very, very long time; 11 years to be precise. Ford sold the Ranger T-6 for ...

This Ford Ranger Raptor is only available in Europe. That’s right, a ute we can’t drive because of the Australian government. And our Ford Ranger might as well be a lunar rover. Because the car we’re ...