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You should see this... I read the article in edmunds. There's also a video there... Here's an excerpt of the article...
At 100 mph, the 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor is barely breaking a sweat. Sure, just about any modern pickup truck can run smoothly at triple-digit speeds on the highway, but we're not on a highway.
No, we're sitting shotgun in the Raptor as it hammers down a rutted dirt road in the middle of the Nevada desert. It's the kind of road that would send standard trucks limping home with leaking shock absorbers and torn-up bodywork, but the likelihood of this happening in the Ford Raptor is slim.
You see, the 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor has been built with conditions like this in mind. It's the latest project from Ford's Special Vehicles Team (SVT), a group of enthusiastic engineers within Ford that made its name building high-powered street vehicles like the Cobra Mustang and F-150 Lightning. This time the SVT engineers have focused their efforts on building something completely different, an off-road truck capable of running at high speed in the desert as effortlessly as it does down a suburban highway.
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At 100 mph, the 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor is barely breaking a sweat. Sure, just about any modern pickup truck can run smoothly at triple-digit speeds on the highway, but we're not on a highway.
No, we're sitting shotgun in the Raptor as it hammers down a rutted dirt road in the middle of the Nevada desert. It's the kind of road that would send standard trucks limping home with leaking shock absorbers and torn-up bodywork, but the likelihood of this happening in the Ford Raptor is slim.
You see, the 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor has been built with conditions like this in mind. It's the latest project from Ford's Special Vehicles Team (SVT), a group of enthusiastic engineers within Ford that made its name building high-powered street vehicles like the Cobra Mustang and F-150 Lightning. This time the SVT engineers have focused their efforts on building something completely different, an off-road truck capable of running at high speed in the desert as effortlessly as it does down a suburban highway.
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