Despite its prodigious off-road skills, the new Ranger Raptor turns out to be shockingly civilized.
has been a long time coming. First, we had to wait to even get the Ranger back here at all after years of it existing in other markets. Then, we had to wait for the new, built-in-the-U.S. Ranger to finally come online before we could get a wild-child version of Ford’s midsize truck in the form ofabout its considerable off-road bona fides.
You’d expect a truck with a tall suspension setup and off-road-specific hardware like the Ranger Raptor to be miserable to drive among the general populace, but that isn’t the case; at least, it wasn’t to us during a four-hour drive from Salt Lake City, to Virgin, Utah. Over roughly 300 miles of paved terrain, the truck proved composed, with just the tiniest hint of suspension lean in the corners to suggest its extreme trail talents.
At speed, the Ranger Raptor’s 10-speed transmission kept the 3.0-liter EcoBoost V-6 quietly humming in the background, and when we approached clumps of slowed traffic, the brakes bit smoothly and progressively. Overall visibility, especially rearward, was good and informative, and the relaxed seat provided just enough contour that we felt secure, but the cushions were pliant enough that no aches arose from the journey.
However, the large and vertically oriented infotainment screen Ford fitted to the Ranger Raptor proved frustrating to live with. It occupies a ton of visual real estate, and more concerningly we found that it responded sluggishly to user inputs.
Happily, the test team came back saying only good things about the Ranger Raptor. They likened it to what thepreviously represented for Ford performance cars—high praise considering the Shelby is one of the greatest sports cars ever built. , the keyless keypad , and a spray-in bedliner . Total MSRP comes to $58,405.starts at $48,395, marking a nearly $9,000 difference between the two, which is significant.
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