DETROIT — As Ford Motor ramps up manufacturing of its electrical F-150 pickup, it isn’t giving up on providing new, extremely winning functionality fashions with gas engines.
The Detroit automaker Monday morning unveiled the F-150 Raptor R, a brand new model of its high-performance, off-road pickup with a supercharged 5.2-liter V-8 engine that produces 700 horsepower and 640 foot-pounds of torque. The truck will get started at $109,145, together with vacation spot and supply fees.
Amid pent-up call for and report excessive costs, automakers had been including functionality variants to their lineups to enhance benefit margins earlier than they transition extra to electrical automobiles, which is able to be offering excessive functionality however have decrease margins than gas-powered automobiles.
2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R
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The brand new “R” model appears very similar to the corporate’s F-150 Raptor, nevertheless it comprises some design tweaks and provides an important spice up in functionality and off-road portions. For comparability, the common 2022 F-150 Raptor is powered by way of a three.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 engine that produces 450 horsepower and 510 foot-pounds of torque. Ford mentioned the Raptor R’s best velocity is 112 mph, restricted by way of the automobile’s 37-inch tires.
Ford has in large part ruled the high-performance pickup truck marketplace since launching the primary Raptor type in 2009. However in recent times, Stellantis’ Ram Vehicles logo has been grabbing headlines with its Ram 1500 TRX, a 702-horsepower pickup with supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 engine and 650 foot-pounds of torque.
The brand new Raptor falls simply shy of the functionality of the Ram TRX, nevertheless it gives other functionality portions. It is also the highest-powered engine Ford gives. The corporate up to now used the engine for the Ford Mustang Shelby GT500.
2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R
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Carl Widmann, leader engineer of Ford functionality, mentioned the automobile is the results of shoppers “tough the sound and gear of a V8 again in Raptor.” Ford hasn’t introduced a V-8 engine in a Raptor type since 2014.
Manufacturing of the F-150 Raptor R will get started within the fall at Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant in Michigan, the corporate mentioned. Ordering for the automobile opens Monday via franchised Ford sellers.
Present Raptor vans get started at about $70,000 — round $40,000 over a base F-150 however more cost effective than the highest luxurious model of the F-150 that begins at kind of $77,000.
2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R
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