Why did Top Gear USA host and hooning legend Tanner Foust bring a Ford SVT Raptor to the Nürburgring? Because he could, that's why, which is the best reason to do something like this.

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.

Benjamin Sloss Treynor is the Vice President of Engineering at Google. He's smart. He's rich. And he loves cars.

If you're ready for the latest iteration of Ford's meanest truck, the time has come. The 2013 F-150 SVT Raptor has arrived.

A few of you noticed there was a special vehicle in the background of the insane Honda CR-V Nürburgring crash from this weekend. Specifically, a bright blue Ford SVT Raptor with none other than Tanner Foust in the driver's seat.

Last December, Lockheed Martin assembled the last F-22 Raptor ever. It's the USAF's one and only fifth generation fighter*. It has never seen combat. It spent part of its life grounded. Now they want to sell you a new one.

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…

Ford's 2012 model updates for the every-terrain F-150 SVT Raptor bless it with a few nifty new tricks, like a front grille-mounted camera. But it also decided kill the best Raptor color, Molten Orange. Why can't we have nice things?

Why would you take the Ford Raptor, the ultimate off-road desert-slaying dream machine, and turn it into a six-door limousine? Because United Arab Emirates.