Ranger Super Duty sets SA payload records

• Ranger Super Duty delivers advanced safety, versatility, connectivity, and creature comforts synonymous with the Ranger nameplate.
• Thanks to heavy-duty axles, upgraded chassis, and a reinforced tow bar, Ranger Super Duty can achieve its incredible 4500-kilogram GVM rating.
• Ranger Super Duty debuts Ford's Smart Hitch and Onboard Scales in South Africa.

Engineered with an impressive 4500kg GVM rating, the Ranger Super Duty is classified as a Code 10 (C1) vehicle in South Africa, recognising its exceptional heavy-duty capability. This ensures customers who need serious towing performance have a factory-built solution designed to meet the demands of agricultural, mining, lifestyle, and professional applications.

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Ranger Super Duty features Ford's Smart Hitch and Onboard Scales: Smart Hitch helps customers better understand the weight on their vehicle's towball and how to adjust the trailer load to ensure optimum load distribution and avoid under- or overloading the towball. The standard tow ball accommodates a 3500kg load, while an uprated tow ball is an option for customers who want to experience the Super Duty's maximum towing weight of 4500kg.

Sensors mounted in the suspension on all four wheels let Ford's Onboard Scales help customers estimate their payload as they add items to their vehicle; it also allows customers to specify additional load for inclusion in the payload estimate. Customers can monitor the weight being loaded into the load box via the SYNC screen.

Ranger Super Duty has an incredible 4500-kilogram GVM rating. For enhanced durability, the Ranger Super Duty runs stronger front and rear driveshafts, while a new heavy-duty rear axle provides enhanced load-carrying capacity. The new rear differential is the biggest and strongest to ever be fitted to a production Ranger.

To help spread the load, the Ranger Super Duty gets eight-stud wheel hubs with larger bolts. That's a significant load-capacity upgrade at the wheels, compared to most other bakkies, which have six-stud hubs.

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Ranger Super Duty is powered by Ford's 3.0-litre turbo diesel V6 calibrated for heavy-duty emissions standards. It produces 154kW and 600Nm. A 10-speed automatic transmission transfers those outputs to the wheels, ensuring smooth, responsive performance. Improved cooling ensures optimum temperature management under load and during sustained off-roading in difficult terrain.

To extend off-road range, a 130-litre long-range fuel tank is standard, and thick steel shielding protects the tank from impact damage when driving off-road. South African farmers and technical service teams know range is everything, and a long-range fuel tank becomes invaluable for deep Karoo and Kalahari operations, especially when operating fully laden. It avoids the inconvenience and payload-space sacrifice of carrying additional diesel in jerry cans.

Knowing the Ranger Super Duty will be pushed harder than most off-road vehicles and driven in more extreme locations, engineers mounted the differential, transmission, fuel, and transfer case breathers higher than on a conventional bakkie, for optimal obstacle clearance.

The Ranger Super Duty also boasts an improved water wading depth of 850mm, while ground clearance is almost 300mm, aided by the fact that the Ranger is one of the very few bakkies that come standard with 33-inch all-terrain tyres.