Raptor Ultra-light Ford Ranger Tremor Takes On-roading In Its Stride

For the majority of its first six months with The Citizen Motoring , our long-term Lucid Red Ford Ranger Tremor has been living the comparatively quiet life since its debut locally in March this year.

Often confined to one of its minders driveway when replaced by a test car, or parked at O.R Tambo International during a flyaway launch, the latter stages of June did, however, involve a trip to Gerotek and a weekend breakaway with our head of sport, Jacques van der Westhuizen, which will be detailed later.

For the most part, the direct replacement for the still popular previous generation Ranger FX4 has been on commuter duty, a task it has performed faultlessly without so much as having its 80-litre tank brimmed and dust washed off.

Despite having to share the limelight with a few high-performance rockets that entered and left The Citizen s garage throughout last month, settling back into the Tremor came with a particular aspect not often mentioned in a bakkie , its driving position.

While more than a handful of the T6.2 Rangers have passed through our hands since its debut in 2022 either on launch, during the weeklong test drive, or as a long-termer, the arrangement in the Tremor somehow feels different in spite of the Blue Oval having made no fundamental changes to the seats or their design.