Instant Alert: We drove a $63,000 Ford Raptor pickup truck for a week and were blown away — here are the features that impressed us the most

MANAGE SUBSCRIPTIONS   |   UNSUBSCRIBE   |   VIEW ONLINE   We drove a $63,000 Ford Raptor pickup truck for a week and were blown away — here are the features that impressed us the most by Matthew DeBord on Mar 13, 2018, 5:47 PM Advertisement The Ford Raptor is the ultra-intense, high-performance version of Ford's F-150 full-size pickup. It's ready for off-road action and has many cool features. We checked out most of them. The Ford Raptor is the pickup truck taken to a wild extreme. It's the pickup member of the Ford Performance lineup, a family 0f vehicles that includes the 526-horsepower Mustang Shelby GT350 and the $400,000 Ford GT supercar. And it's a truck designed to bust through deserts, forests, and rock-strewn landscapes. As we found out when we reviewed it last year, it can also handle road trip duty. We drove the $62,500 test vehicle for about a week and discovered that it is a simply awesome truck, in every way. Here's a look at its best features: FOLLOW US: On Facebook for more car and transportation content! Bold, aggressive, borderline intimidating styling. You can kind of see the F-150 that lives beneath the Raptor's swagger. But just barely. The Raptor ain't cheap. Our tester tipped the cost scales at a nicely optioned $62,500. Cool Raptor badging. If you look closely, you can see that the Raptor has claws for "R's." Who needs a dainty blue Ford oval on the grille when you spell out F-O-R-D in huge matte black letters? There's a 450-horsepower, 3.5-liter turbocharged V6, with a whopping 510 pound-feet of torque, behind those menacing consonants and a vowel. See the rest of the story at Business Insider   Share the latest business news with your network:    Email sent to: nguyenvu1187.love5@blogger.com   |   Manage your email preferences   |   Unsubscribe Terms of Service   |   Privacy Policy Business Insider. 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011