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1) Its got road sprayed tar on the bed.
2) Its not parked in my driveway.
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The oversized logo.
The color.
Other than that, it’s the coolest stock truck I think I’ve ever seen. Wouldn’t get one, but I respect the vehicle and owners who actually use it.
I saw this at the Toronto Auto Show, and I absolutely loved it. It fits my super-car criteria:
1) Is overpriced
2) Is not practical
3) Is well engineered
4) Is designed with child-like imagination
5) I cant have it.
I think the Grille is tacky. Like the Skid Plate, Flares and Ride Height. A more conventional Grille with some Driving Lights would be much more appropriate.
Other then color, I like it. Grill looks better then stock Grille. And it looks like Ford’s slogan ‘Built Ford tough’.
I’m not usually given to appreciating these types of things – wildly impractical, poseur-mobiles. However, ding-dang, I’d get one if I had a couple million dollars. I know it was made for the Baja, but I reckon I could romp through some MN winters in that bad boy and have some good fun doing it.
Now if they’ll only get to engineering a Ford Fiesta SVT Raptor that still gets 35+ mpg highway, they’ll have stolen my heart altogether.
The bed isn’t long enough. A pickup bed needs to be long enough to haul stuff. That looks like it would take a dufflebag and that’s about it.
Now if they’ll only get to engineering a Ford Fiesta SVT Raptor that still gets 35+ mpg highway, they’ll have stolen my heart altogether.
Ford sells a sweet Focus ST down in Mexico.
Is it the new…er…I mean…cancelled F-100 ?
I give up. Looks very hot to me.
I guess the fact that the logo is matte and not chrome makes it ‘understated’ and ‘tasteful.’ :)
It is actually a 2010 Chery “Foro”, which is based on a photoshopped 2001 Mazda B4000. You can tell by the partial door handle on the front fender. But Congress will never notice.
Well, they did something to the three-bar grille.
I guess the fact that the logo is matte and not chrome makes it ‘understated’ and ‘tasteful.’ :)
Matte? It looks like Mold In Color ABS with a Sandstone grain.
If that is what Mr. Farago calls “small”, then his “big”…. must be ginormous. Really ginormous.
Well… uh. That’s like one of the best sport trucks I’ve seen in ages. Uhm, is something wrong with it?? Perhaps the oversized lettering?
I hate the color, it’s not orange enough. Check this F150 Lobo. Now that’s what I call orange.
http://www.alsacorp.com/products/stylin/showcase/LOBO_F150/DSC01789_L.jpg
My guess is that Ford will sell every Raptor they can build.
I saw it in person at the auto show when it was in town. I hate to say it but I loved everything about it from the grille to the 80s style bed graphics, this thing is a big win.
Got to check it out at the Houston Livestock show and Rodeo, and I can imagine this truck will sell pretty well. I reckon, even in this economy, a wild and crazy American super truck will sell in enough numbers to justify its existence.
Ford needs to dump the SVT name, though. Or they need to kill off the SHO and anything with Shelby related. Too many hi-po brands and not enough justification for some of them: there’s a reason why BMW’s M series stands on its own two feet.
What’s wrong with that picture??? Where to start.
1. Horribly ugly. Even worse than the Focus, new F-150, and new Superduty combined.
2. It can only tow 6K pounds.
3. It has the anemic, boat anchor 5.4.
4. It is about as practical as a hand with no fingers.
5. It looks like it was attacked by a JC Whitney catalog.
6. It is missing it’s mullet-wearing, tobacco chewing, haven’t showered in a week red neck owner.
The G8 ST would have been cooler.
I’m usually not a fan but I have to say I really think it’s supremely fit for purpose for inner London use – the Brits for some reason decided that having speedbumps of various varieties every 20 metres is the way ahead. This has the suspension and track width to drive over most of them without noticing – making driving in London much more fun :)
Many of the speedbumps, namely, do not run the whole width of the road but are just wide enough to catch out most cars on UK roads, while something of the width of the F150, if well positioned does not touch the speed bump at all. The SVT Raptor makes sure the ones that cannot be avoided are not much of an issue, either ;)
I think this thing rocks. Absolutely do not care about tow capacity (buy the stock one with best in class towing if that matters), love the styling, love the color, am not interested in practicality (!!!), sounds amazing when it fires up, looks like it came out of a film set not a catalogue and will be driven by seriously cool, rich playboys with nothing better to do than tool around the desert.
Overall, a sure-fire hot hit!
Ford are on such a roll!!
The lettering in the grille should be mirrored to increase the “intimidation factor” at stop lights.
Its an attention grabbing halo truck that does NOT cost ford an arm-and-a-leg to tool up for, since although it would cost a fortune to build one as a modification of an F-150, its very easy to build as a modification to the F-150 on the line, as there is almost no new tooling.
So if it sell, cool. If it just attract attention to the regular F-150? Cool.
Flippin brilliant.
It’s awesome, the off road Shelby GT.
“1. Horribly ugly. Even worse than the Focus, new F-150, and new Superduty combined.”
The F150 and SD are gorgeous
“2. It can only tow 6K pounds.”
Desert trailer tow racing might be pretty cool, they’ll have to do something about it.
“3. It has the anemic, boat anchor 5.4.”
There’s a 6.2 coming.
“5. It looks like it was attacked by a JC Whitney catalog.”
Why do you think it’s so awesome?
Plastic add-ons around fenders are traps for dirt, mud, water, salt where it is used, etc.
How long until the rust starts there.
The same add-ons vibrate against the paint, rubbing through until corrosion inhibitors are worn away. Result, faster rusting.
Last…..
It’s built by Chevy. Why does it proclaim “Ford.”
Something strange going on here.
Unable to determine if the decal of Calvin washing down a Dodge is present upon the rear window.
And, you just know, it likely takes hours to access under the dash unlike the era of “real” pick-ups when manly men able to turn a wrench shoved their heads underneath the accessible dash to repair any problems arising there.
Today’s wimpified faux males must prefer pretty over function, I suppose.
I must be a minority. Gimme’ the old-style interior where plastic did not make access to innards so hard to attain.
Well, actually no surprise today’s wimpy wimp trucks are designed for emasculated males since the incessant indoctrination / brainwashing via the politically correct mob has been so successful in altering the pioneer spirit of yore into today’s faux male class that seems to be the norm.
Ask a Marine Corps drill instructor who is nearing the end of his 30-year enlistment of the differences betwixt males of an earlier era and the precious snowflake tender dainty males so many (but not all) today’s males have devolved into.
Grrrrrrrr………
Great looking truck. Of course, Aztek owners might disagree…
Absolutely do not care about tow capacity (buy the stock one with best in class towing if that matters)
Only ONE of the 56 possible F-150 combinations can tow what Ford supposedly says the F-150 can tow.
And you MUST buy it with the heavy duty payload and towing package, which includes a stronger frame.
The other 55 combinations have equal or worse towing and payload than the competitors.
car is angled to the left, is copper in tone, has poor graphics on the rear.
four wheels, your wrong? your strong? i give up….
how bout that grill though
Yeah, I think I would like a more conventional blue oval grill, but otherwise this is the most complete off road truck in a while (Power Wagon, ZR2? I’m sure I’m missing a few). The 6.2 should help it’s speed issues and probably increase the cost as well. Not that I can afford one as it is.
I love it, and I usually only like old trucks.