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Last Auto Account – SEMA 2008: Ford F-150 SVT Raptor Bows Funny, trucks were declared to be a asleep breed two months ago if gas ran $4 a gallon. The 2009 Ford F-150 is active adverse to those obituaries–Ford is in fact accretion assembly of the best-seller–and with a new SVT-tuned Raptor edition, the F-150 is demography a aggressive angle adjoin afterlife actuality at the SEMA ..Last Auto account –

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Funny, trucks were declared to be a asleep breed two months ago if gas ran $4 a gallon. The 2009 Ford F-150 is active adverse to those obituaries–Ford is in fact accretion assembly of the best-seller–and with a new SVT-tuned Raptor edition, the F-150 is demography a aggressive angle adjoin afterlife actuality at the SEMA show.

The Raptor copy wears a 2010 archetypal appellation and SVT initials–meaning, it’s a absolute car Ford affairs to build, starting next year, alongside the added banal versions of its most-popular F-Series truck. The Raptor is no approved Ford truck, though–it’s fabricated especially for tramping about off-road while attention some on-road aptitude for those of you who charge a fun barter to bear every day.

The accessible changes from F-150 to SVT Raptor appear up front, area the F-Series foreground end is ditched for a new awning and fenders that are about eight inches added than the banal version. The new vented awning aids and abets performance, and the clear attraction that is the “FORD” grille looks accessible to brand the aggregation logo into abundant wildlife with poor timing. The electric-orange acrylic of the appearance barter is twinned with a atramentous covering autogenous and added day-glo details.

Mechanical upgrades are all over the truck’s chassis, admitting its 5.4-liter V-8 is aggregate with added F-150s. It delivers 320 application in the Raptor and 390 pound-feet. Coming soon, Ford says, is a 6.2-liter V-8 engine that’s been buried in clandestineness and had been accounted as a accident of new fuel-economy standards. Specially advised Fox antagonism shocks are the authentication of the absolutely new foreground suspension, which sports about 13.4 inches of biking in the rear end and 11.2 inches in the front, for jouncing over Baja ruts and runs. Off-road tires are specified, but Ford engineers affiance the Raptor will be able abundant to use in circadian driving–by what affectionate of drivers, they larboard unsaid.

A adaptation of the Raptor will attempt in the anniversary Baja 1000 race, which begins in mid-November. The new Raptor goes on auction next year at an bearding price.

Ford says its SVT lineup–which had aswell been alleged dead, back there were no articles in 2008 address the badge–will accept one barter and one car from now on. What’s to accompany the Raptor in cutting the SVT badge? Added account is assertive to appear by January’s 2009 Detroit auto show.

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