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Over the last several weeks, there have been a number of reports on web forums of frame damage incidentsinvolving the Ford F-150 SVT Raptor. Thanks to a number of reader tips, Autoblog was the first news outlet to inquire with Ford about the matter. After launching its own investigation into the claims centering around one particular organized [...]
The SVT Raptor’s optional 411-horsepower, 6.2-liter V8 engine will become standard equipment with the 2011 model year release. Defining features of the 6.2-liter V8 include a cast-iron engine block with four-bolt mains, aluminum cylinder heads, an SOHC layout with roller-rocker valvetrain and variable cam timing. Unique to the Raptor, the exhaust system was tuned [...]
Ford retained bragging rights in full-size pickups, with the F-series line extending its truck sales leadership for a 34th consecutive year. Ford sold 528,349 F-series, up 28 percent, making it the top-selling vehicle of any kind in the U.S Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up share via [...]
Most of us can admit to the fact that we’ve all imagined ourselves driving a Ford F-150 SVT Raptor in a desert race, and sharing the podium with guys like Carl Renezeder or Kurt LeDuc. After all, with 11.5-inches of front suspension travel, Fox racing shocks, special transmission tuning and 35-inch tall BFG tires, [...]
The car tuning scene could care less about the Jesse James and Sandra Bullock ordeal, since Hennessey brings us the supercharged Ford VelociRaptor 575. The whole cheating scandal with Jesse James is now in the past, so the custom West Coast Chopper builder decided to drop around $11,000 to tune up his Ford Raptor. I [...]
A Review of Ford’s F-150 SVT Raptor The Raptor promises to be the most off-road-capable F-150 Ford has ever built. This pickup is like a street-legal Baja prerunner. In other words, the SVT Raptor promises to smooth out the worst high-speed desert terrain, fly over jumps and handle slow-speed four-wheeling better than just about any [...]
Ford will be introducing another Raptor later this year that won’t be performing on the highway. This dedicated competition truck, which is unofficially known as Raptor R, will be for off-highway use only and will be sold directly to racers. The new F-150 SVT Raptor won’t arrive in showrooms until later this year. Pricing has [...]
What’s the saying? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? Surely this cliché holds true of most things, but the men and women at Ford SVT managed to pull off the improbable: taking the impressive SVT Raptor pickup and making it an even meaner off-road machine. How? With more power, from a brand-new engine. The [...]
If any company can fine tune a suspension system, it would be Fox. Its list of sponsored drivers and race wins is numerous. Fox developed a front coilover and rear shock specifically built for the Raptor. Pushing a nearly 6,000-pound truck in the dirt isn’t an easy feat, which is why you see such oversized [...]
