Why is the 2010 ford svt raptor the strangest to come out of Detroit?”
Building a vehicle that is quiet and comfortable when traveling at 60 mph is hardly an impressive feat. These days, it’s pretty much par for the course — unless the course is a sandy arroyo with a washboard surface peppered by large rocks, and the vehicle is a Ford pickup truck. The Ford F-150 SVT Raptor is the strangest bird to come out of Detroit in a long time. As close as you’ll get to a showroom stock desert racing truck, it is the first of its kind from a major manufacturer, and flies in the face of today’s fuel efficient, save-the-planet carmaking conventions. Developed by Ford’s Special Vehicle Team (SVT), an in-house performance unit better known for its work on the Shelby Mustangs, the Raptor was designed with one purpose: to go like stink, anywhere. Click here for VIDEO of the Raptor Built on the same assembly line as the standard F-150, the Raptor gets a special suspension and a suite of electronic goodies that would make a Stepside toss its gun rack out the back window in
First Look: 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor Raptor is the only F-150 to get the new 6.2L January 01, 2009 / By Todd Lassa 2010 Ford F150 Svt Ford Raptor Front Motion The rap about “street trucks” like Dodge’s Ram SRT-10, Chevy’s Silverado SS and Ford’s own F-150 SVT Lightning is that they handled and performed well…for trucks. In designing a performance version of Ford’s iconic pickup, Special Vehicle Teams chose a different direction for the 2010 F-150 SVT Raptor. Widen the body of a Supercrew, redo front and rear suspensions, tweak the four-wheel-drive calibration and make it an off-road capable pre-runner. The Raptor also gets a new truck engine, a 6.2L, two-valve (for better torque characteristics than multivalvers) overhead-cam V-8. Tuning isn’t final, but SVT says the oversquare engine will be rated about 400 hp and about 400 lb-ft of torque. The engine was an on-again, off-again project known as the Hurricane V-8. Its official name is simply “6.2,” and Ford will not use it in any o
