Ford Rangers. Marfa, Texas and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Ford's once upon-a-time wheelbarrow, and a good-looking, useful truck. Compare to the ludicrously massive macho-braggadocio trucks so common in Texas now, with their cowboy movie names--the Ram Laramie Edition, the Ram Longhorn, the Chevy Texas Edition, the Ford Raptor. Those bodybuilder trucks seem to us a signal of what has gone terribly wrong in this country