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The Ranger only got 21 mpg with a 2.3L Duratec 4 banger? No wonder Ford discontinued those pint sized guzzlers.
To be fair, the 2nd Gen Rangers were going on 18 years on the same basic platform and had gotten a little long in the tooth compared to the rest of the truck industry that evolved past it.
Back in the late 1990's and mid 2000's, anything above 20 MPG in a truck was doing good.
I went out of my way to get a truck WITHOUT the console. I'm a big/tall guy and pretty much everything I test drove had the console. My knees dug into it, and my wide frame fit better with a little extra room, I just wasn't comfortable. But to each their own. Seems like an easy mod.