Ford F-150 SVT Raptor - Car and Driver (blog)
It was out in a scabrous field in southeast Michigan immediately following a Detroit Lions game in the early ’80s (a loss, naturally) when I became intimately acquainted with the roll bar of a Jeep CJ-7 Golden Eagle that my father was driving... But, as it turns out, 90 pounds of unbelted preteen boy launches easily from the back seat into the roll bar’s diagonal support—a ribs-to-steel contact not soon forgotten. But the real problem, of course, was that we weren’t in a Ford F-150 SVT Raptor SuperCrew. The boy would be even better off if he used one of the three three-point seatbelts back there. But, of course, that doesn’t really matter because the Raptor’s absurdly generous wheel travel and high-performance Fox shocks (or, if you insist, “Shox”) will soak up your average Michigan hillock without even notifying the passengers. And the new-for-2011 SuperCrew’s monstrous 145. 2-inch wheelbase (11. 9 inches lengthier than the already long Raptor SuperCab’s) would have further quelled the jiggles. At 6284 pounds, the Raptor SuperCrew is 184 pounds heavier than the SuperCab version. Despite this, the SuperCrew is a tenth quicker to 60 mph (6. 6 seconds) and through the quarter-mile (15. 2) than the last Raptor SuperCab we tested. Source: www.caranddriver.com
