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The baby brother to the F-Series workhorse is being testing across the Pacific, wrapping development which has been a major project at Ford Australia for more than four years. Photo Gallery
This truck is the start of something big - again - for Ford Australia.
It's the T6 Ranger and, although we've seen it before, it takes on new importance at Broadmeadows as the base of an upcoming SUV. The T6 program is a mechanical platform as well as a pickup body and that means the giant engineering team at Ford Australia can tweak it for other bodies. Like an SUV.
So the size and style of the Range, which is nearly ready for showrooms, points to a new family development beyond the Territory. The baby brother to the F-Series workhorse is being testing across the Pacific, wrapping development which has been a major project at Ford Australia for more than four years.
The T6 is caught this week as a dual-cab pickup and still with a lot of camouflage cladding in place. But Carparazzi has most of the details, from 2.2 and 3.2-litre diesel engines, a four-cylinder 2-litre EcoBoost petrol powerplant similar to the one coming to the Falcon and six-speed manual and automatic gearboxes.
It says the T6 will be sold everywhere outside the USA and Canada from the early part of 2011. And it points to a dashboard layout that's similar to the latest Ford Fiesta and Focus, complete with car-style gauges and a multi-function steering wheel.
