In a stunning departure from modern performance machines, we brought a fully built 1969 Ford Ranchero to the Nürburgring.

They may not match up to a modern horsepower behemoth like the Ford F150 Raptor, but the 1970s still produced some trucks ...

Junkyard Gem: 1979 Ford Ranchero 500 Car-based pickups were all the rage in the United States throughout the 1970s, and this generation of Ranchero was one of the wildest-looking of all. Here’s ...

Jim, a virtual artist known as "jlord8" on social media, loves messing around with all things CGI from the automotive realm, ...

The Ranchero spent just its first couple of years on the full-sized Ford platform, becoming a Falcon-based cartruck as soon as Ford’s new compact hit showrooms for 1960.

Of course we all love the cars-with-truck-beds that GM and Ford sold in the 1960s, but we often forget that they kept making them for quite a while after (and, in fact, still make them down in Mad ...

The Ford Ranchero was born in the 1957 model year with the last one built in 1979. During that 23-year period, Ford built full size, intermediate and compact Rancheros.

And, surprisingly, the Ranchero had a slightly higher cargo potential than the popular half-ton Ford pickup. The Ranchero models were manufactured from 1957 through 1979, selling a total of ...

This is because most of the units were focused on fuel efficiency rather than performance, with Ford only adding a more powerful V8 option in 1965 (in the form of the 289/4.7-liter also available ...

Unlike Ford, which continued production through 1979, Chevy did not make an El Camino in 1961 to 1963 as sales of the 1960 models weren’t good and trailed Ranchero sales, 21,000 to 14,000.

Ford went on to say the Ranchero was “A hard worker that loves to play,” although promotional materials definitely played up the work part of the equation, stating that “Whatever your line ...