Faults:

The air conditioner never worked in any of my rangers (3, 2 94s and a 96). I'm not going to nit-pick every little thing that went wrong on a 20+ year old truck. But most of the things that went wrong were my fault. With basic maintenance the 93 to 96 Rangers are outstanding trucks.

General Comments:

Every Ranger I had came with a 2.3L engine and a manual transmission. They're not fast but won't die. I've loaded them up past the roof with firewood, loaded down with drywall and tiles, and they don't give up. They're simple and cheap to work on, and great on gas.

Inside they're as comfortable as a small mid 90s truck is gonna be, but I always had the XLT. The XL package is pretty basic and doesn't offer much, but I'm sure it's just as good of a truck.

Overall they have always been good, reliable transportation and ready to work.

Faults:

Needs a tune up, and the dome light doesn't work. But great truck for travel or in-town transport.

General Comments:

Reliable, comfortable, and economic. Great for a first car. Easy to learn the manual; I wouldn't ever go with an automatic.

Faults:

Driver's side bench seat started tearing, and got way worse.

Rear brake cylinder cracked off roading at 234,000.

Catalytic converter went bad/had holes at 224,000.

O2 sensors went bad around the same time.

Cylinders 2 and 3 started losing compression.

General Comments:

I escaped a nasty wreck in this thing with not even a scratch. The impact was so powerful, it cracked the engine block and wrinkled the tailgate (it was a head on collision BTW). I was going about 50-55.

Seats are really comfortable. They keep you in the best position for a truck, with an upright/straight back.

The Mazda M50D-R1 always shifts very smooth; synchros never went out. I'm pretty confident that the tranny would have gone 500,000 or more.

Really quick for being a 4 cylinder. For about 130HP, you really get more than what you pay for. That thing was the little engine that could. Handles like a horse off road. The I-beam suspension in the front definitely defined the quality of the truck.

I will never regret anything about it, except for that the base model came as standard without power steering or A/C.

Believe it or not, it got about 25 MPG city.