Houston The Ford F150 SVT Raptor has Landed

I Picked up The Ford F150 Raptor from Russell and Smith Ford  in Houston,but had no idea what i was in store for.The Raptor was wainting for me when i got there,it was assign a Dealer plate and i was handed the Keys.  THIS TRUCK IS BAD TO THE BONE 5.4L  of off road perfomance. Got on the freeway and the  Truck pretty much stopped Traffic.

Ford F150 SVT Raptor

Let me give  you a  a little background on this Ford Raptor.

Ford Builds A Desert Racer
While every past super truck was designed for driving on paved roads and tracks, the SVT Raptor promises to literally fly across the surface of the desert. What would motivate Ford Motor Company to introduce such a different kind of super truck?

The answer is threefold. The first is that high-performance trucks attract attention to the entire line of F-Series trucks. Ford’s marketing people like this. A second reason is that Ford employs engineers who genuinely love performance. Those engineers aren’t shy about offering up ideas on what’s they’d like to see in Ford showrooms. The third is that hi-po street trucks have been done before. Ford didn’t want to simply microwave warm up an old idea.

Taken all together, these points formed a rationale that helped point Ford toward a new kind of high-performance truck.

Ford’s collection of speed-crazed engineers goes by the name of SVT (Special Vehicle Team). This group was responsible for past Lighting pickup trucks, as well as the Ford GT supercar, and the recently released Shelby GT500 Mustang.

The face of SVT is their chief engineer, Jamal Hameedi. He said, “We saw where the truck market was going, and doing another high-performance street truck wasn’t the best idea. We needed to do something original, and we wanted something that a different owner segment of the trucking world would appreciate.” SVT decided to focus on the fans and participants of desert racing.

Racing trucks, dune buggies, and ATVs through the desert is a popular activity in the Southwest. Off-road races are common in California and Nevada, as well as on Mexico’s Baja peninsula. Plus, these states have hundreds of thousands of acres of public land that are open to off-road recreational vehicles. Like a racetrack is for a Shelby GT500, these areas provide a safe place let vehicles like the Raptor stretch their legs.