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Ford has release a video of the Ford Ranger raptor in action. There is some speculation as to whether the Raptor will be sold here, but as I posted on 08/22/17, it has been seen in Michigan:
http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1602241&postcount=4
According to Car And Driver:
Almost from the moment Ford announced it was preparing a new, mid-size Ranger pickup for the U.S. market, truck fans have speculated whether there would be an off-road-themed version akin to the high-flying F-150 Raptor. Now comes confirmation that the Ranger Raptor is indeed a thing, but there’s a big caveat. That official word is via a video released by Ford South Africa—so we still don’t know whether the Ranger Raptor is just for foreign markets (where the current Ranger is sold) or whether it’s for the new, U.S.-bound truck.
In the video, we see a camouflaged pickup bounding through the Australian Outback and even catching some air—as Raptors are wont to do. The accompanying text says that the Ford Ranger bakkie [that’s a pickup] will get a “purpose-built, desert-racing-inspired” Ford Performance variant that is coming to South Africa “as the new #RangerRaptor.” It even has a hashtag, so you know it’s real.
It’s hard to imagine that Ford would build a Ranger Raptor for other markets but keep it out of the Raptor-loving U.S. of A. That we’ve seen off-road-themed Ranger prototypes here in the States further suggests that the smaller Raptor will fly here as well. While we await official word from Dearborn, check out the bakkie in the video below.