REVIEW: Ford's performance pick-up has sensational Baja rally-style thrills with more on-road pace and appeal than its predecessor
Only a Baja-style, road-legal performance vehicle quite like this one - a modern fast Ford developed not in North America, nor in Europe, but on the dirt and sand of Australia - could ever really need systems specifically intended to cope with the realities and consequences of ‘getting air’.
The VDC unit, in turn, tells the Raptor’s new Fox ‘Live Valve’ adaptive dampers to promptly force extra compression pressure into the lower extremes of their travel, effectively preparing this 2.5-tonne, 5.3-metre, 288bhp flying pick-up truck for imminent landing. It seems a missed opportunity, frankly, that the seatbelt warning lights don’t flash on at this point. If your jump was high enough, and your backside drifted clear enough of the seat cushion, perhaps they would.
And, off road at least, you’ll be amazed what else this extra-special pick-up can do. Being the first Ranger Raptor with two locking differentials, plus a proper electronically controlled four-wheel drive system with transfer gearing, it comes with 265mm of ground clearance, a ladder frame and 70-profile knobbly BF Goodrich off-road tyres.
It’s a big vehicle with a long wheelbase, and yet it climbs, descends, crawls and twists over rocks, and articulates its rear axle like some gigantic, undiscovered Antipodean mountain goat. The Raptor’s go-faster coil suspension has been left only moderately firm, fairly long travel and quite dexterous, expressly for that purpose; and the car’s electronic traction control systems really do make extraordinary slopes and angles surprisingly easy to deal with.
Just how much of all this, you may be wondering, will make the Ranger Raptor the kind of driver’s car that Ford will need in order to maintain its reputation as one of Europe’s chief purveyors of affordable, usable and relevant performance cars - as both the
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