2008 SEMA - 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor Video - video Dailymotion

Truck Trend Editor Mark Williams heads out to the desert outside Las Vegas

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00:00 We're out here in the desert about an hour south of Las Vegas because SVT wants to show

00:09 us their newest offering and that's the Ford SVT Raptor F150.

00:14 Dirt, dust, deep sand, all of this is what this vehicle eats for lunch.

00:20 [Music]

00:47 Ford SVT invited us out here in the desert to give us an engineering and design background

00:52 to this vehicle, essentially taking a select group of journalists and giving us a deep

00:57 dive into all the changes this vehicle has to it.

01:00 They also brought out some professional drivers that took us out on a drive route that essentially

01:05 duplicates the Baja 1000 race course.

01:08 Some of you might wonder what the difference is between the SVT Raptor and a stock F150

01:14 and the reality is there's a lot different between the two.

01:17 You can see just visually this is a 7 inches wider truck, new fenders on both sides, a

01:23 brand new hood.

01:24 In fact, everything from the A pillar forward design wise is completely different.

01:29 The bed outers are also completely different.

01:32 Wheel wells much wider to handle the 35 inch BFG all terrain tires.

01:38 Also underneath the suspension, front suspension and rear suspension significantly upgraded

01:44 to deal with the bigger horsepower needs that the brand new 6.2 liter V8 that's going to

01:49 come out winter of 2009 when that makes it into this vehicle.

01:53 The front suspension, completely heavy duty eyes, rear suspension, different leaf springs

01:59 and the most significant change, about a 7 or 8 thousand dollars worth of shock absorbers

02:05 are underneath this vehicle in order to deal with the high speed desert racing personality

02:10 that this vehicle has that no other truck in its segment offers.

02:15 (upbeat music)

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