You've always wanted a Ford Raptor, but you've had two problems with it: It isn't powerful enough and the uncovered bed doesn't provide your family and gear with the protection it so sorely needs. Well, have no fear, Hennessey have come to the rescue with this: The 600 horsepower Velociraptor SUV. Holy crap.

The Ford Raptor is a favorite around here. It looks like an R/C truck and has similar capabilities. It's also one of the best performance bargains out there…. but it has its limits.

My usual qualifier for a good car is whether or not it constantly puts a smile on my face. This means I like a lot of cars that are, on paper, bad choices. A Nissan Altima has never made me smile, nor has a Chevrolet Cruze –- yet both are cars I'd recommend to people looking in those respective segments if they want…

We can't tell if this Raptor driver is an asshat, or if this is just a brilliant use of all that suspension travel.

Actually, this truck is not a Raptor, it's an EcoBoost-powered Ford F-150 with a Raptor frame-and-body swap. However it came to life, it's a more economical way to get your Raptor on without sacrificing power and torque. And Ford doesn't even build it.

Here's the new downloadable UNSC skin for the Ford Raptor in Forza Horizon. It's no Warthog, but it's about as close as you can get in a racing game.

Let's just get this out of the way right up front: nobody at Ford was ever thinking about the Raptor in terms of a baby-toting car. That's absolutely fine. This is a vehicle designed for doing things off road in a flashy, loud, fun way, not puttering around town doing family things.

Have you ever wanted to hoon the crap out of a 411 hp Ford F-150 Raptor in a 900-acre desert offroading park? You can in the Ford Racing Raptor Assault program. Even if it wasn't your dream before, it probably is now.

The Ford F-150 SVT Raptor pickup emerged in 2007 as a desert runner, was recast as a Michigan mudder and then as a snowbird-slash-missile-site-transporter. For its fourth phase, Ford is positioning the long-travel-suspension pickup as a rock crawler. Having never scrabbled the Earth's craggy layer in a truck…

FoMoCo gave the new 2012 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor a 4.10 Torsen front axle and a new front camera. Now, they've also given us this video of the newly upgraded off-roader playing in the mud and putting all 411 of its horses to work. Enjoy.