Ford's New Ranger Super Duty Is Ready for Hard Work, Just Not in America
Over the last few decades, the Ford Ranger — one of the best midsize pickups you can buy — has racked up admirers all around the world for its combination of size and capability — but for 2025, Ford is pushing the latter even further by taking a page from the full-size pickup lineup and creating the new Ranger Super Duty,
As Ford's most capable Ranger ever, it packs a reinforced chassis, a turbodiesel engine, underbody protection, and more. It's designed to work in some of the world's toughest terrain... and, unfortunately, there are no plans to bring it to America.
The Ranger Super Duty's natural habitat, in fact, is Down Under, where forestry workers, farmers, emergency service providers and so forth often modify their vehicles to survive life in the field, according to Ford Australia. So, the carmaker decided to build a truck that was already equipped to tackle the harshest conditions right from the factory.
One look at this new truck, and it's quickly clear it's no regular Ranger; the Super Duty has a rugged stance that even the Ranger Raptor can't match. Crawl underneath the truck, you'll find a chassis reinforced with thicker-gauge steel and extra bracing. Larger brakes and eight-stud hubs are also part of the package. Pop the hood, and there's a 3.0-liter turbodiesel V6 with an improved cooling system. No official power figures have been released, but the same engine in a standard Australia-market Ranger makes 247 horsepower and 443 pound-feet of torque.
This strength and power combine to give the Ranger Super Duty a maximum towing rating of 9921 pounds — a significant increase over the 7500-lb highest tow rating for any new Ford Ranger available in America. Payload capacity and curb weight have not been provided yet, but the Ranger Super Duty does boast a gross vehicle mass of 9921 pounds and a 17,637-pound gross combination mass rating; as such, we expect the Ranger Super Duty has a payload rating that will rival the larger F-Series trucks. (That overlap between the Ranger Super Duty and the F-150, presumably, has quite a bit to do with the reasoning behind not bringing it to America.)
Ford expects examples of the Ranger Super Duty to live a good portion of their life off the beaten path, so they equipped the truck with plenty of off-road bits. The truck has front and rear locking differentials, dual recovery hooks and high-strength steel skid plates, all in addition to a higher ride height. 33-inch all-terrain tires and a fully sealed snorkel with an inbuilt water drain in the bottom of the air box are also standard.
In addition to the usual standard Ranger features such as SYNC4, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, the Ranger Super Duty offers some of Ford's clever truck tech, like Smart Hitch and Onboard Scales. There's also Trail Control helps maintain a steady speed off road, and the Bronco's Trail Turn Assist feature to help navigate tight terrain.
The Ranger Super Duty will be available in four configurations: single-cab cab-chassis, super-cab cab-chassis, double-cab cab-chassis or a double-cab pickup. Pricing has not been announced at this time, but that's somewhat of a non-issue for us in the U.S., as no plans have been announced to bring it Stateside. That said, we're sure someone will be importing them under the 25-year rule come 2050.
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