I'd want to wait at least 5 years to see if the light duty diesels have any where near the reliability and durability of the diesels in the 3/4 and 1 tons. Ford has put out some dud diesels in the full size trucks, I'd not want to be their guinea pig for the light duty diesels.
Unless Ford has worked some aerodynamic magic, color me highly skeptical of a 30 mpg truck.
Ford has been selling a diesel Ranger (new one built in Thailand) in Australia for years now, and they have a pretty good reputation with the Aussies. A lot of them have been buying the Ranger as opposed to the new HiLuxes from Toyota. I read their comments now and then, and the one thing I've figured out is that they do NOT like the common-rail small diesels, though I have no idea WTF a common-rail diesel is.
Australia is now importing ALL their vehicles, since GM closed the Holden plant, and everyone else has pulled out, too.
