Produced by Raptor (Raptor), it must be a boutique. As a team that successfully built the Ford F-150 Raptor, this time naturally will not let go of its own popular hardcore SUV, and the Ford Bronco Raptor was born.
Inspired by the North American off-road event Ultra4 Racing, the F-150 Raptor's design and development team crafted the strongest off-road Bronco Raptor, which you can also understand as an officially produced modified car.
Combining racing and civilian use, the front bumper features a trailer hook, detachable LED fog lights and off-road lighting. Both suspension travel and wheelbase (note not wheelbase) have increased, and in order to accommodate larger tires and wide-body effects, the new car uses a larger sized wheel brow, which is nearly 25 centimeters wider than the regular model.
The heart of the Raptor is a full-frame, high-strength steel frame with a new shock-absorbing tower, B-pillar crossbars and C-pillar reinforcements in the upper body that help provide more than 50 percent more overall torsional stiffness than the standard Bronco four-door model. Although the late modification can easily improve the power and off-road performance, but when it comes to the structural parts of the body, the original factory upgrade is the most secure solution.
The minimum ground clearance is 333 mm, the proximity angle is 47.2 degrees, the departure angle is 40.5 degrees, with a detachable roof, and four detachable doors, which further highlights its off-road positioning, and can be said to be very American after complete disassembly.
Really want to play "hard", the overall bridge is certainly indispensable, this time Ford official also gave you an upgrade, the front axle is Dana 44 AdvanTEK with a 210 mm ring of teeth, the back of the heart is upgraded to a Dana 50 Heavy-Duty AdvanTEK axle with a 235 mm ring of teeth. If you are a Wrangler owner, you must be familiar with the Dana brand.
Not surprisingly, the Ford high-performance team still chose to cooperate with FOX to develop a high-performance off-road stability suspension system that can independently adjust damping and detect terrain conditions hundreds of times per second according to road conditions.
The interior is basically the same as the regular version, with a boxy straight style, the details are embellished with orange and red accents, and the seat back will also be equipped with the Raptor logo. The SYNC 4 multimedia system includes a 12-inch touchscreen, a 360-degree camera, a 7-speaker sound system with a subwoofer, and wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
The exhaust has built-in openable and closed valves and offers four selectable exhaust modes, including normal, sporty, quiet and Baja modes. The Terrain Management System also offers seven modes, including a unique Baja mode, where the anti-hysteresis calibration for the turbine is activated to maximize your dynamic response as you race through the desert.
The new car is equipped with a 3.0T twin-turbo V6 engine with a maximum power of more than 400 horsepower, a 10-speed automatic transmission on the drivetrain and a four-wheel drive system with multiple modes to choose from.
Write at the end
High-performance car use scenarios are not only on the road, the hot sales of the F-150 Raptor, successfully opened up the field of high-performance off-road pickup trucks, and Ford continues to exert efforts to launch high-performance SUV products, in terms of off-road performance to a higher level, become a more extreme performance beast, will it become a hardcore SUV brother?