2001 Ford Ranger Gold Paint Colors
Posted by Mike Levine | June 16, 2011
Almost every auto barter awash in the U.S. today can be configured as a four-door aggregation cab. In some cases, a aggregation cab is the alone adaptation you can buy, but it wasn’t continued ago that aggregation cabs were few and far between. The 1996 Ford Adrenalin abstraction barter helped change that, ambience the date for today’s pickups.
The tough-looking Adrenalin architecture abstraction was one of the aboriginal concepts to adumbrate the trend of prioritizing commuter amplitude over burden amplitude for the U.S. market. It featured a beneath burden box but had affluence of allowance for bristles cartage in the four-door cab.
Prior to the Adrenalin concept, best U.S. crew-cab pickups were accessible alone as extra-large able trucks, while agnate baby crew-cab pickups had continued been accepted in across markets afore 1996.
“It’s absolutely the best of two worlds,” Jack Telnack, Ford’s carnality admiral of accumulated design, said aback the Adrenalin was released. “It’s a fun-to-drive off-road action account agent that additionally expands on the acumen of a pickup.”
As advocate as the segment-busting Adrenalin was at the time, Telnack was acclimated to blame the architecture envelope of commuter cars and trucks at Ford, such as the 1983 Ford Thunderbird, 1986 Ford Taurus, 1994 Lincoln Mark VIII and 1996 Ford F-150.
The Adrenalin was aggressively added aerodynamic-looking than the 1996 F-150 and beyond than the bunched Ford Ranger. It featured a ablaze amber exoteric with custom 32-inch Goodyear off-road tires army on 16-inch admixture wheels. A winch was chip into the truck’s advanced bumper, additional tow hooks at all four corners. The lower rocker panels and advanced and rear drift plates were clad in nickel plating for added aegis while arena in the clay or on rocks.
Inside, the Adrenalin showcased altered colors and fabrics aggressive by bedrock aggressive and camping gear. Sturdy bolt covered the lower apparatus panel, aperture trims and seats. Canvas was acclimated to awning the sunroof, and disposable day packs and accoutrements were additionally allotment of the cabin. An avant-garde (at the time) GPS assemblage chip in the birr could appearance the disciplinarian a real-time map of the aggregation cab’s breadth anywhere in the world.
Similar to what would afterwards become the midgate on the Chevy Avalanche, the Adrenalin’s rear window could be bargain into the aback console of the cab, which could again be bankrupt collapsed (along with the rear brazier seats) to extend the burden bed’s loading breadth from the tailgate to abaft the advanced seats. The tailgate had a appropriate console that could be bankrupt out into a burden bed extender aback the tailgate was flat. Appropriate accumulator compartments in the burden box housed a baptize ablution arrangement that could be angry into a high-pressure ablution to apple-pie the barter up afterwards a continued day on the trails.
After overwhelmingly absolute customer acknowledgment to Adrenalin, it accustomed in 2000 as the 2001 Ford Explorer Action Trac, administration abounding of the mechanicals of the Ford Explorer and absolutely abstracted from the Ford Ranger, which has remained accessible in the U.S. with alone a approved or continued cab.
The Adrenalin name was formally absorbed to the Action Trac in 2003, aback the Adrenalin advantage amalgamation was added. It included a Pioneer stereo with nine speakers and an 8-inch subwoofer, bound acrylic colors, ancillary footfall confined and exceptional admixture wheels. The "Adrenalin" name appeared on the tailgate and was stitched on the arch restraints of the truck's covering seats.
But all acceptable things appear to an end, alike admitting the Adrenalin’s aggregation cab bequest carries on. Explorer Action Trac assembly concluded with the 2010 archetypal year.
