Inside Line just got a Raptor (6.2L of course)

[PricklyPete]

Mr. Lightning and GT500 disagree 😉

LOL...true...a supercharger can do wonderful things! 😀

 

[zerocool84]

Mr. Lightning and GT500 disagree that 5.4 is slow 😉

GT500 is slow compared to it's competition.

 

[PhoKingGuy]

GT500 is slow compared to it's competition.

4.2 0-60 is slow for a 50k car?

 

[exdeath]

4.2 0-60 is slow for a 50k car?

Considering its 7 year old predecessor is just as fast for less than half the price... hmm

It's not that it's slow persay, it's just there are alot of fast cars at $50k. Sticking that Shelby sticker on it basically priced it out of it's league. $25-35k? Sure. $50k? I'm looking at a Z06.

 

[Zap]

12mpg...damn.

I think my dad's former 1994 F150 got around 12-16MPG with around half the HP, so this doesn't seem too bad for that amount of power.

 

[PhoKingGuy]

Considering its 7 year old predecessor is just as fast for less than half the price... hmm

It's not that it's slow persay, it's just there are alot of fast cars at $50k. Sticking that Shelby sticker on it basically priced it out of it's league. $25-35k? Sure. $50k? I'm looking at a Z06.

True, id probably just get a normal GT and bolt a kenne bell onto it (when they make one for the 5.0)

 

[JulesMaximus]

No pre-defined roads where this thing is going.

So nobody will drive these on the roads ever? 😕 I find that damned near impossible to believe. In fact, I'd bet that, just like SUVs and other 4wd drive trucks, most of them never see anything but road duty.

 

[punjabiplaya]

So nobody will drive these on the roads ever? 😕 I find that damned near impossible to believe. In fact, I'd bet that, just like SUVs and other 4wd drive trucks, most of them never see anything but road duty.

I can't really see that many soccer moms driving a Raptor. Now, their slightly well off redneck husbands who work for the oil company...

I'm really surprised that I haven't seen more them around here. I've seen a total of two on the road.

 

[punjabiplaya]

Fantastic (not being sarcastic).

Raptor overall trip average: 13.9 mpg.

Worst tank: 12.1 mpg -- Rural two-lane, a couple of low-speed highway trips to town -- much less stress than a pure urban city loop.

Best tank: 15.7 mpg -- This was the very last short leg of my trip, with a net downhill elevation change. No gridlock, but speeds dropped as the freeway entered the city. At 119 miles, this was not a full run to empty. I filled when I got home because I wanted to end all fuel calculations at the endpoint of the trip.

Best range: 364 miles -- As you can see in the photo, I ran deep into the warning, too. I added 25.33 gallons to the 26-gallon tank. Yikes!

I played around with octane, too. I ran 91 octane on the northbound leg and 87 octane coming home. Either fuel is OK by Ford, but 91 octane is associated with the horsepower claims.

Northbound, 809 miles, 91 octane: 13.7 mpg average

Southbound, 839 miles, 87 octane: 14.5 mpg average

 

[JMapleton]

I saw one of those just today, actually about two hours ago. Weird, I had never seen or heard of one before.

 

[punjabiplaya]

update - suspension walkaround
I love this stuff

http://blogs.insideline.com/straigh...d-f-150-svt-raptor-suspension-walkaround.html

 

[PricklyPete]

update - suspension walkaround
I love this stuff

http://blogs.insideline.com/straigh...d-f-150-svt-raptor-suspension-walkaround.html

Awesome truck from a purely technical standpoint. I'm not sure I'd really enjoy driving it around all the time (heck...my Tacoma was too big for me to enjoy), but the truck is pretty freak'n amazing technically. If I was working border patrol...this is what I'd want.

 

[StageLeft]

Awesome truck from a purely technical standpoint. I'm not sure I'd really enjoy driving it around all the time (heck...my Tacoma was too big for me to enjoy), but the truck is pretty freak'n amazing technically. If I was working border patrol...this is what I'd want.

I'd rather this

although it could be mounted on a Raptor.