The Rebirth of SVT

[hades]

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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[the Mad Modder]

So it's actually going to be built, not just as a concept?
That would definitely boost Ford's image.

 

[Jason]

That thing wold be cool as hell. Question is, with the dying truck market, can tose who can afford it be interested in it. With the welthier people it will be hard to get them into an F-150 for what is sure to be the same cost as luxury SUV.