Ford was full of surprises this year at the Detroit Show, dropping an all-new Raptor off road pickup truck that looks straight up badass.
Power will come from a 3.5-liter turbocharged EcoBoost V6 engine that will make somewhere above the 411-hp and 434 lb-ft that the current 6.2-liter V8 in the Raptor makes. All of that juice will be sent through a brand-new 10-speed automatic transmission and on to a new torque-on-demand transfer case which manages power distribution between the front and rear wheels.
Weight loss is also being served up for the Raptor thanks to that new aluminum body, which shaves off about 500 pounds.
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A new set of larger 3.0-inch Fox shocks will allow the Raptor more travel than before, which means it will pack over 11.2-inches of travel in the front and 12-inches at the rear. Doing duty in the mud will be new 17-inch wheels wrapped in BF Goodrich All-Terrain KO2 tires.
There is one major downside to new Raptor however. It is a 2017 model year vehicle and it won’t reach production until late in 2016, so we have a long wait ahead of ourselves before we can get behind the wheel and pilot this beast through the toughest of terrain.
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