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Ford Ranger, Everest lead Blue Oval’s greatest end in 16 years


Ford Australia has posted its greatest month-to-month gross sales end in 16 years with 10,103 automobiles delivered in June 2025, overwhelmed solely by the perennial market-leading Toyota.

The Blue Oval’s June 2025 determine was its greatest month-to-month outcome since June 2009, when it delivered 10,194 automobiles – led by its now defunct Falcon, however with the Ranger its next-best nameplate. 

Main the cost in June 2025 was the Ranger with 6293 deliveries, warding off arch-rival Toyota HiLux by a mere 98 models for its greatest outcome since December 2023.

The Ranger, which was Australia’s best-selling automobile in each 2023 and 2024, leads the HiLux year-to-date by 2044 deliveries, the pair ranked as the highest two best-selling automobiles in Australia to the tip of June 2025. 

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Ford’s second-best vendor final month was the Everest – an SUV spun-off the Ranger – with 2705 deliveries to guide the massive SUV phase forward of the Toyota LandCruiser Prado’s 2177. 

But the LandCruiser Prado is forward of the Everest year-to-date, the Toyota’s 15,583 deliveries up a whopping 345.5 per cent to see it outstrip the Ford’s 12,294.

Past the SUV and dual-cab ute segments, the Transit had its greatest month since Could 2011, with 247 delivered together with 17 Transit buses.

Ford’s June success noticed it second for the month general, however the model stays third year-to-date with Mazda nonetheless forward on 48,942 gross sales to Ford’s 47,300, each trailing a dominant Toyota’s 20,225.

Ford faces a troublesome second half of 2025 with an ever-growing variety of Ranger rivals, together with the just lately launched BYD Shark 6 and GWM Cannon Alpha, in addition to the extremely anticipated Kia Tasman dual-cab ute of which deliveries will begin this month.

There’s additionally Australia’s NVES (New Automobile Effectivity Customary), designed to encourage producers to supply automobiles emitting much less carbon dioxide (CO2), to navigate. 

The way forward for some Ford powertrains and showroom costs has been impacted by NVES, in accordance with the automaker, which brings decrease CO2 emissions targets yearly till 2029. 

The automaker has decreased the ability of its upcoming Ranger Tremendous Obligation (pictured under) as a direct response to the brand new emissions legal guidelines. 

The two.0-litre ‘Panther’ engine within the entry-level Ranger – additionally used within the Transit – has been dropped from the UK (UK) Ranger lineup because it gained’t meet upcoming emissions requirements there. 

Though Ford Australia gained’t formally touch upon the engine’s native future, its personal CO2 emissions figures for the two.0-litre turbo-diesel reveal it gained’t meet NVES requirements from 2026.

This implies Ford Australia faces monetary penalties if it retains the engine in sale in new-car showrooms subsequent 12 months.

The fines – which got here into impact on July 1, 2025 – have already been blamed partially for a $5000 enhance to the record value of the Ford Mustang

The NVES permits automakers like Ford to offset bigger, ‘dirtier’ automobiles with extra low-emission automobiles comparable to electrical automobiles (EVs).

However 86 per cent (or 40,605) of Fords delivered within the first half of this 12 months had been Ranger or Everest fashions, with Ford’s EVs promoting in a lot smaller volumes. The Mustang Mach-E, for instance, accounted for simply 251 out of Ford’s 47,300 deliveries.

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