There was a post last week about when the Ranger was going to be revamped. From The Car Connection:
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to quote: "We've been waiting and waiting and waiting, and time after time the scheduled remake of the Ford Ranger has been put on hold - and this is no exception.Although there are yards of vinyl covering crucial styling details, the model year 2006 only brings a facelift and freshening to the aging Ranger.
An all-new Ranger, codenamed P273, is now expected to arrive around 2010."