2020 Ford Ranger Lariat FX4 Review
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- čas přidán 16. 03. 2021
- An overview of the Ford Ranger Lariat FX4. Check out the off road video that will be up Saturday.
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literally decided on a xlt fx4 bc of this and the offroad vid. the video style is very is to digest. SUBBED
Thanks for the support and glad I was able to help!
Helped me decide on this bad boy. Thanks for a no bs review
Thanks for watching! I hope the truck treats you well!
Thanks for the honest review.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the great video. I have one on order. Something I noticed with the hard tonneau cover, when folded all the way forward, the prop holds it against the cab light. There is a rubber piece there, but I wouldn't want to travel with it that way. Competitor covers have prop rods that hold it away from the cab.
Interesting, I have very little experience with the bed covers. I am driving a ranger tremor right now though and loving it!
great review, always a nice pace. More POV at night time if possible. I'm getting older and need better headlights. Not many reviewers comment on this.
Thanks for the tip, I typically only really mention the headlights if they are really good or really bad. I'll keep that in mind and see if I can't throw in a short night time section.
Really nice companion video to the off road demonstration. Doing paired videos is a great idea. Just need a bit more daylight. :)
Automotive journalism is a side gig for me, so I fit it in around my day job and family time. Sometimes I don't like harsh lighting when I film during my lunch break, so I go early in the morning. I need to find the perfect balance haha.
I love the look of ford ranger.What are the codes above the door handles we do not have them in the UK. Thank you so much for the video 👊
That keypad is so that you can lock your keys in the vehicle and simply put in a code to unlock it. This is a nice feature for outdoor adventurers who don't want to worry about losing our damaging their keys.
@@EngineAdventures thanks for replying cool feature love that., all car should have that., thanks for the videos mate appreciate it all the work that goes into it👊
Curious if your dog can get comfortable with that back seat or does Ranger only ride in the bed?
That seat kept me from buying one because i have two retrievers and there isn't much you can do with that seat. Otherwise, on a test drive, I liked the ranger better than a new Tacoma.
The cab is certainly small on the Ranger. Actually for most media vehicles they don't allow dogs and Ranger rode in my wife's car to the park nearby, and I thought since he has the same name that I'd put him in the video.
Very excellent info in this review and i know what you mean about these high gear transmissions. I think we could get by with a good 7 speed if they could build one. I know the 9 speed that Jeep is using is a complete disaster and the entire time that i owned that POS I never saw 9th gear ever.
There have only been a few times when towing heavy that I felt a 6 speed wasn't enough, personally a 7 or 8 is ideal. However, I do really like the new 9-speed from Nissan assuming it is reliable.
Seems fine to me, I've heard the 10 speed needs about 10k miles to learn your specific driving methods to smoothen out. Headlights and road noise at highway speed seem above average for the class. At first I was first sold on the Ridgeline, but now I may consider the Ranger because it has a higher driving position, and is more capable. I can also potentially get some $$ off MSRP since my uncle works for Ford.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
The Ridgeline is more useful for daily tasks (larger all around and more storage space). However, if you need more offroad or towing capability, then the Ranger is the way to go out of these two.
Man I love that color. Mine is Cactus gray
Thanks for watching! This one was certainly a brightly colored vehicle!
I just purchased the Lariat FX4. My question what would you recommend for a bed liner?
spray in bed liner. goto a car/truck shop that specialize in it and they can add tie hooks etc. . plastic liners not that great, plus some shops will have different colors other then black .
I second that, I've had other vehicles with plastic insert bed liners and the bed gets really bad underneath them. The spray in liners are more durable and wont trap water between the bed and liner.
I have the same truck and went with Rhino Liner. I can definitely recommend it.
do you use regular gas on it? or you use 91 prenium?
@@FlyLopez1991 91 but I read other owners use 93. I feel 91 is good enough.
The tubes are drains to redistribute the water that is in the rails.
That's odd, never seen them on any other truck.
@@EngineAdventures yup. Theres a fitting on the underside of the cover at each front corner. Water that gets caught in the rail drains to the front, through the tubes and down through the bed 👍🏻
Drain tubes!
@@EngineAdventures, super common in covers. Drain tubes.
The 10spd to me feels almost exactly like a VW DSG.
Interesting, it didn't feel like a dual clutch to me at all.
@@EngineAdventures what about starting in sport mode ?
The throttle is more aggressive making it a bit more jumpy off the line, but I didn't notice the shifts being and harder.
No way! I just sold my 2016 VW GTI SE DSG IS38 Turbo 400 hp APR stage 3 tune and that little 3100 pound machine kicked ass.
@@crazycomments8038 Sold my 16’ GTI Autobahn PP 6spd manual almost two years ago. Was nice car to be in and always fun to drive. Sadly mine was mostly a lemon, couldn’t keep it out of dealer first 1-1/2yrs.
It might be the worst transmission I have ever owned. I bought my FX4 new and have put on 20k miles and will be hopefully trading it in soon. Transmission has only gotten worse. Mine bucks at times when coming to a stop. Dealership said nothing in wrong but I've driven others and there clearly is. Almost everyone who rides with me comments on it. Still slightly upside down on the loan. Ford's 0% APR, the little turbo engine convinced and the deal I got convinced me to trade in my Colorado on one.
Sorry to hear yours is having troubles. It seems to me that GM does a better job with the 10 speed than ford, the last one I had was in an Escalade with the 6.2 V8 and it was the best performing 10-speed I've driven.
I had nothing but trouble with my 2021 ranger XLT sport in four months it was in the shop seven times. I traded it in for a new frontier no comparison on the build quality. Also the resale value is not that great on this truck as compared to some of the other midsize.
So if I'm not mistaken is the Ford Ranger is a piece of junk...especially the transmission. 10 speed what garbage.
I hope I didn't come off that way too much. I like the Ranger quite a bit, it has a lot of really good features. Ford's tuning of the 10-speed is not as good as it should be, but it's still a capable truck. Check out Chris O'Neill's review of the Ranger for a discussion on why the Ranger is a top contender in the midsize class. He talks about how it has a higher payload then the top selling Tacoma, based on a trip he took in the Ranger.
@@EngineAdventures No not at all. Based on reviews I've seen its probably best to stay away from it.
Interesting, thanks for the input!
You're mistaken.
@@dc76384 You must have only looked at the negative reviews 🤔