The 2018 Ford F-150 is still available with a good old fashioned V8, but the top engine option is the turbo 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6. Even better than that is the High Output 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6, but you can only get that in the Raptor off-road truckâuntil 2019, when youâll be able to get the big booster daddy in theâŚ
The 2019 Ford Raptor is getting new hardware over the outgoing 2018 model, including fancy Fox shocks that detect when the vehicle is flying, as well as off-road cruise control called âTrail Control.â
The Ford Raptor is one of the most creative and successful vehicles in recent memory, a joyous interpretation of what a performance car is. But as second generation Raptors now prowl our nationâs highways and byways one shortcoming (lol) has become clear: The Raptor is too big.
It would appear that while the Ford Motor Company gave the new diesel Raptor Ranger a 10-speed automatic gearbox, it also examined some more extreme options. Like 13 gears! Can you imagine? Let me be clear here that I believe 13 gears is too many gears.
The 2019 Ford Ranger Raptor has finally been revealed in its final form, and even though we donât have a full spec sheet yet we can compare quite a few metrics between this and its big American brother the F-150 Raptor.
Imagine taking an off-road truck, lowering it, and fattening it with a wild widebody kit that looks like itâs supposed to go on a drift car. Actually, it might be kind of awesome. Maybe this many wrongs make a right.
Iâd wager that these two men, by the names of Chris Harris and Mike Spinelli, are among the only people ever to get a Ford Raptor stuck on a teeny little glacier such as this one in Iceland.
I think the Ford Raptor, with its own name scribbled all over it in screaming font and its massiveness and its 450 horsepower and its long-travel shocks, is profoundly silly. I mean, I get its appeal in, like, an off-road sense. But I couldnât imagine that anyone would need more than thatâlet alone for over $100,000.âŚ
We know that the Ford Ranger is returning to the U.S. in 2019, and youâve probably already been fantasizing about Fordâs off-road magic from the Raptor being boiled down to the Rangerâs more accessible size. Welp, itâs freaking happening, officially.
The Ford Motor Company would have you believe that you need a $60,000 twin-turbo V6 off-roading pickup truck with an aggro name and more cheats than a 12-year-old playing Grand Theft Auto V. Bah, we say! You need this only if you are a tool of the landed gentry. Weâre here to prove them wrong with a true car of theâŚ
Retired NASCAR driver and Eldora Speedway owner Tony Stewart was clearly in his element when he was talking about setting up Eldoraâs dirt oval for this weekâs Race Formerly Known As Mudsummer Classic. After the race, he hooned a new Ford Raptor around the trackâas you do when you own the place.
Ancient velociraptors probably couldnât swim very well, and the modern Ford F-150 that shares the name is apparently no differentâa hypothesis tested by a Raptor driver in San Diego Friday afternoon.
Weâve known since the beginning of the year that thereâs going to, finally, be a new Ford Ranger coming to the U.S. market by 2019. The Ranger has been alive and well overseas, but thatâs not the one that will be coming here. Weâll be getting an all-new Ranger, and, based on what we can tell from these spy photos,âŚ
Okay, so the 2017 Ford Raptor showed its compromises when I used it as a long-distance towing vehicle. But the compromises all seem worth it when your lazy butt only has 30 minutes to get down a rocky, dirty trail that Google Maps says should take an entire hour.
I just spent two weeks with the 2017 Ford Raptor during my 1948 Willys Jeep off-road excursion to Utah. I came back loving Fordâs off-road sports truck, but only under a very narrow set of driving conditions. Most of the time, I dreaded driving it. Hereâs why.
A few months ago Ford sent its first official export batch of Raptor off-road performance trucks to China. Today the company confirmed the Raptorâs pricing over there, which starts about $20,000 above where the truck lists in the United States.
Thatâll show âem!
As of the past few days, the 2017 Ford Raptor is the first Ford F-Series truck to be officially exported to and sold in China. Aside from the price, which has not been announced yet, thereâs really only one distinctive difference between American and Chinese-spec models: the headlights. The other unique features forâŚ
The 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor isnât exactly the first choice for drag racing, but what better way is there to illustrate how the new turbo Raptor stacks up against the old-school V8 Raptor? The result is that there is, indeed, a replacement for displacement.
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