Ford Ranger Raptor

Ford will now no longer provide a 2023 Ford Ranger Raptor '-Line' model of its incredible ute – grafting the Ranger Raptor's tough-truck appears onto a fashionable Ranger, with out its on-avenue and off-avenue overall performance – the organisation has confirmed. In latest years, Hyundai, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz and different vehicle makers have discovered achievement in imparting automobiles mixing the extroverted styling in their flagship overall performance cars, with the greater sedate engine and dynamics in their fashionable fashions – however Ford and its off-avenue Raptor line might not observe suit.

 When requested on the digital display of the brand new Ford Ranger Raptor V6 ute if there are any plans to provide a Raptor-like outside styling bundle for the usual Ranger Wildtrak, leader engineer for the Ford Ranger and Everest's T6 platform, Ian Foston, replied: "No [we will not]." "This [styling] is a part of the DNA of what Raptor method to our clients ... the 'F-O-R-D' grille, the flared arches, the haunches.

This is what we name our precise differentiation, of what Raptor method [to buyers] ... whilst clients see [this appearance], they recognize they’re getting a Ford Performance product." While the Raptor logo can also additionally break out this 'watering down' strategy, some other place in its line-up Ford gives ST-Line fashions, which to the untrained eye appearance very much like the entire Ford Performance-designed ST fashions above them, however with out the introduced engine overall performance, or a choice of curated layout touches.

 The closest Ford has ever tracked to a Ranger 'Raptor Line' – as this kind of version can be called – is the Ranger FX4 Max, a special-version model of the outgoing Ranger released in 2020 to bridge the distance among the entire-bore Raptor and tamer Wildtrak.

While the FX4 Max featured an 'F-O-R-D' grille, BFGoodrich K02 all-terrain tyres, and Fox surprise absorbers stimulated by – aleven though now no longer shared precisely with – the Ranger Raptor, it lacked the flagship's wider arches, coil-spring rear suspension, and a lot of its different upgrades.