RE: 2023 Ford Ranger Raptor 3.0 V6 | UK Review

[Kawasicki]

I used to ride trail motorbikes with the engineer who tuned the suspension.

He spent a lot of time waiting for me.

[smilo996]

The Harley Davidson of pick ups, just without the brilliant. You can see all that physics overpowering it on the corners.
For people whose parents never gave the a tonka.

[Jeremy-57bxb]

I think that it is sad that in a so-called civilized society "EFF.YOU styling" and exhausts that can be fiddled with to make them noisier (and thus anti-social) are written of as if they were good things.

[CDP]

Escort3500 said:

£59k

I don't know if that includes VAT but the electric F150 Lightning is $66,014 so broadly comparable on price.

Remember when Fords were cheap cars? At one point they were the cheapest cars on sale in the UK.

[McRors]

Love it but couldn’t live with sub 20 mpg. Shame

[pheonix478]

Jeremy-57bxb said:

I think that it is sad that in a so-called civilized society "EFF.YOU styling" and exhausts that can be fiddled with to make them noisier (and thus anti-social) are written of as if they were good things.

Loads of them where I live (not UK) and they look great compared to the bland styling of most pickups. I don't know what FU styling means even, I wouldn't even say it was aggressive looking, it just looks capable of going fast on bad/un-surfaced roads.

[DodgyGeezer]

Jeremy-57bxb said:

I think that it is sad that in a so-called civilized society "EFF.YOU styling" and exhausts that can be fiddled with to make them noisier (and thus anti-social) are written of as if they were good things.

[Neil1323bolts]

I really don’t understand this sort of vehicle in the uk . USA and Australia I can see why but not on these roads / towns .

[parabolica]

Neil1323bolts said:

I really don’t understand this sort of vehicle in the uk . USA and Australia I can see why but not on these roads / towns .

They make perfect sense in the countryside.

[clacs2]

parabolica said:

Neil1323bolts said:

I really don’t understand this sort of vehicle in the uk . USA and Australia I can see why but not on these roads / towns .

They make perfect sense in the countryside.

In bog standard base spec diesel form they make perfect sense, most of the farmers in these parts have them in various stages of disintegration.

The flash ones are owned by gym types who universally drive 3' off your arse.

[Mysstree]

parabolica said:

Neil1323bolts said:

I really don’t understand this sort of vehicle in the uk . USA and Australia I can see why but not on these roads / towns .

They make perfect sense in the countryside.

Off road maybe, like tending to livestock or other farm work. Tearing down a country lane though where the vehicle is a good 3 feet over the centre point or even brushing the hedging both sides, these vehicles are not perfect sense.
Nearest they get to off road is if going into the parking area of a country park to let the spawn of the driver let lose with a pack of semi feral dogs.

[hammo19]

Everything about this is so wrong in the current liberal society, which makes it so right.

Good job F O R D.

[S600BSB]

When is the EV version coming?

[SteveStrange]

Missing the obligatory shot of it in mid-air.

[Pflanzgarten]

SteveStrange said:

Missing the obligatory shot of it in mid-air.

Isn’t there a true story about that and the last one (Ford showed one jumping, so folk tried the same and wrecked them leading to a class action lawsuit against Ford).

[Ivan stewart]

clacs2 said:

In bog standard base spec diesel form they make perfect sense, most of the farmers in these parts have them in various stages of disintegration.

The flash ones are owned by gym types who universally drive 3' off your arse.

Quite , I’d feel safer if they would stick to a RR sport or something German ..

[andy43]

DodgyGeezer said:

Jeremy-57bxb said:

I think that it is sad that in a so-called civilized society "EFF.YOU styling" and exhausts that can be fiddled with to make them noisier (and thus anti-social) are written of as if they were good things.

You’re not the Jeremy we’re looking for…

[Speed addicted]

Zenzz said:

I have genuinely dreamt of having a Raptor pretty much every day this winter now that roads are in the state they're in. Having once been viewed as one of the most unsuitable vehicles for UK roads (due to it's size) I now can't think of anything that's better suited. I'd go for the diesel though... to get more than 17mpg and the old shape is better looking IMO anyway.

It’s massive, reasonably powerful, RWD (on road) and light at the rear.
This is not what you want to be driving on slippery winter roads!

It’s also going to fall into the lower speed limits for commercial vehicles because it’s too heavy, so you get to do 50 on NSL roads and 60 on dual carriageways.

I like it, but I’ll stick with the old Mitsubishi as it actually works as a pickup.

[rallycross]

SweptVolume said:

In my experience of drivers of 'roided pick-up trucks, a "good gap" will be about half a car's length.

These seem to be driven 99% of the time by utter morons who will never ever move out of the way when they are dominating the outer lane. Vehicle of choice for dick - heads .

[Neil1323bolts]

parabolica said:

Neil1323bolts said:

I really don’t understand this sort of vehicle in the uk . USA and Australia I can see why but not on these roads / towns .

They make perfect sense in the countryside.

Well I moved out to the countryside 2 years ago now and I couldn’t think of a worse vehicle to use down the narrow country lanes , let alone the small towns / car parks , small hatchback is the weapon of choice for me even in bad weather