What intrigued me the most was their "dull" design cues back in the 90's and early 2000's, you know the one, boxy with curved edges, found in Escorts, Lasers, Fiestas, and the likes. By the likes referring to their small trucks, the almighty non-North American Ranger - or at least for the first few generations of them.
I remember growing up in BSD where a gardening shop owner has had a bright red single-cab 4x4 - the first-gen-Mazda B-Series-based one - using everyday to haul pots, plants, sacks of fertilizer, but still manages to keep it well maintained, even until today.
Fast forward to the other day, I was somewhere in East Java for work, and was supposed to be inspecting heavy equipment, when I totally got side-tracked by a couple of abandoned Ford Rangers at the lot.
Though not in prime shape as the BSD-roaming Ranger, but boy, call me weird, but it was like time froze for a few moments as I looked around the pair of single-cab 4x4 B-series in cowboy rattlesnake-skin boots.