{"id":3987,"date":"2012-11-08T10:36:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T10:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2012-11-08T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T10:36:18","slug":"ford-ranger-wins-international-pick-up-award-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3987","title":{"rendered":"Ford Ranger Wins &#8216;International Pick-Up Award 2013&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3988\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3988\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3988\" title=\"The new Ford Ranger\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ford-ranger-award2013-sm.jpg\" alt=\"The new Ford Ranger\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Ford Ranger has won the &#39;International Pick-Up Award 2013&#39;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The new Ford Ranger has won the\u00a0 \u201cInternational Pick-Up Award 2013\u201d at the Fleet Transport EXPO 12 event in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Every member of the judging panel ranked the new Ranger as their number one choice; praising its performance on- and off-road, strong engine line-up, payload and towing capability, and safety.<\/p>\n<p>The new Ford Ranger won the award following extensive testing at Millbrook Proving Ground near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/bedford\">Bedford<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; after which it was awarded 47 points \u2013 more than the <em>combined<\/em> number of points awarded to the second- and third-placed Isuzu D-Max and Volkswagen Amarok.<\/p>\n<p>The new Ranger was a completely new model and also distinguished itself by being the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3694\">first pick-up to be awarded a 5-star Euro NCAP rating<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Ranger is available in three cab bodystyles \u2013 Double, Super and Regular \u2013 and comes with a choice of two powerful and economical Duratorq TDCi engines and the option of either 4&#215;2 and 4&#215;4 drivetrains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Ford Ranger has won the &#8216;International Pick-Up Award 2013&#8217; at the Fleet Transport EXPO 12 event in Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1553,1552,1608,1417],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3990,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions\/3990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}