F-150 Raptor Runs Off Road, Ford Offers Pictures to Prove It

by Aaron Cole

Updated: December 31st, 2020 Published: August 21st, 2015

f 150 raptor runs off road ford offers pictures to prove it

Ford released photos and video Friday of its newest Raptor off-road testing in Northern Michigan.

The truck, which will go on sale next fall, has better ground clearance than the outgoing Raptor, although Ford isn’t giving us official specs yet. We know the last generation’s fording depth was officially 30 inches up to 4 mph and that capability likely won’t decrease — but we don’t know if it’ll go up.

“The all-new Ford Raptor will be more capable than the previous Raptor, including improved wheel travel and ground clearance,” Ford spokesman Mike Levine told us.

Ford said today that the newest-generation Raptor will have new Fox racing shocks with internal bypass to adjust and stiffen suspension off road, and an all-new four-wheel-drive transfer case in the back.

In other words: Specs for the official truck are slowly coming out. We’ll stay tuned for official horsepower figures from the twin-turbo V-6 under the hood.

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Sgeffe on Aug 21, 2015

I thought that the Raptor's forte was on-road performance only. Learn something new every day, and all that!

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- Anti121hero on Aug 22, 2015
  
  I have never seen a raptor with even a speck of mud or dirt on it.
  
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- DenverMike on Aug 22, 2015
  
  @anti121hero Should an owner never wash it? What about vacuuming the interior? Rest assured 99.9% of 55 to $60K pickup buyers (yeah not much in rebates for Raptors) aren't going to get visible damage on the body from the off road. But wait awhile for the 2nd or 3rd owners of Raptors. Except the exact same is true of Wrangler Rubicons. They get washed/detailed more severely than off road'ed.
  
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Doug Dolde on May 04, 2016

Still looks like a pig. Too big for serious off roading

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