![]() ![]() The survival of the stuck vehicle may vary, but the Raptor apparently won’t be breaking a sweat…) ![]() (A kinectic recovery involves attaching a stuck vehicle to a mobile one, and then using the mobile one like a high-powered bungee device to catapult the stuck vehicle free. The towing eyes you can see poking out of it are fixed in place, and strong enough to handle 4,635kg – not because the Raptor might need them should it get stuck, but so that they can be used to engage in a ‘kinetic recovery’ on other stranded vehicles without failure. The bumper itself has been raised and mounted directly to the frame, improving the off-road approach angle. That silver section beneath the front bumper? That’s a functional bash panel, made from 2.3mm high strength steel. Those wheelarches don’t just look massive, they are massive. Those flared front wings are made from composite material, and house a track width that’s 150mm greater than the regular Ranger – that’s 15 whole centimetres. ![]() Check out the headlights, and their relationship to the panels that surround them. The Raptor is like the Ranger equivalent of the Six Million Dollar Man – Ford has the technology, and it has most certainly rebuilt it. The Raptor is just a Ranger with a bodykit and lifted suspension, right?Ĭripes, don’t let the engineers hear you say that. Can such a thing possibly be worth near-as-dammit £50k when you include the VAT? We’ve been giving it that exact extreme beating – albeit in Morocco – to try and find out. ![]()
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