HERE’S A HOME truth: if it weren’t for the Ranger, Ford Australia really would be in a world of trouble right now. If not for its ever-widening range of Thai-made pick-ups, in fact, it would very likely join Holden in the ranks of benched car companies in Australia. Sobering, but true.
A quick glance at its current roster provides plenty of supporting evidence. Just over 700 Ford-badged SUVs sold in September 2020, in a market that snapped up more than 32,000 of them. The Ranger? It found more than 3400 homes, which equated to nearly 30 percent of the sales in that sector – and for more than 70 percent of the company’s total volume.
Even Holden sold more Acadias in September than Ford sold Enduras.
Ford’s journey along the SUV superhighway has also been a pretty patchy one. There are success stories – the Everest is the second-best seller in the local roster – but they are few and far between. Most recently, the Indian-sourced EcoSport was, let’s be honest, a hard fail. It simply wasn’t a very good car, and Australian buyers stayed away in droves. Small and mid-sized SUVs are now bread-and-butter products for all serious players in the Australian game, and the buyer profile has changed forever; it’s no longer good enough to have a known badge.
In short, Ford needs another hit-maker on the books – and it needs it quickly.
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