The Ram TRX can sprint to 60 mph in just 4.5 seconds and on to a top speed of 118 mph. However, if Ford was quicker and faster than the TRX, it would go after its rival, which, to quote Ram, is the “Quickest, Fastest and Most Powerful Mass-produced Truck in the World”. This gives the Raptor R a much better power-to-weight ratio. It is a smidge less powerful than the TRX, but is significantly lighter – 5,950 pounds vs the TRX’s 6,350-pound curb weight. However, it comes with a two-speed hi-lock transfer case with a 4H drive ratio of 1:1, 4LO drive ratio of 2.64:1, and a final drive ratio of 4.10:1įord hasn’t revealed the performance figures yet, but it could be just as quick as the TRX. We expected the Raptor R to boast a full-time active transfer case. However, it has a new calibration and an updated torque converter. The Raptor R features a 10-speed SelectShift automatic gearbox as seen on the other F-150s, including the standard Raptor. While the engine is borrowed from the muscle car, the transmission is not. Ford has also made use of cast stainless steel exhaust manifolds, a deeper oil pan, and a new oil cooler and filter. The loss of 60 horses helped Ford gain 15 pound-feet of torque, which will be delivered in the low- and mid-range. The automaker recalibrated the supercharger and installed a new pulley that’s six mm smaller than the one in the GT500 to make it more suited for off-roading. To put things into perspective, it makes 250 horses and 130 pound-feet of torque more than the standard Raptor, but two horses and 10 pound-feet of torque less than the Ram TRX. It makes less horsepower than the GT500, but more torque (760 horses/625 pound-feet in the muscle car). This 5.2-liter, supercharged V-8 engine churns out 700 horses at 6,650 rpm and 640 pound-feet of torque at 4,250 rpm. It was already leaked, so no surprises really. The obvious choice was the Predator from the Shelby GT500, and it is the same one that made it here. As we speculated, Ford has sandwiched the TRX with the standard Raptor on one side and the Raptor R on the other, thus making this a 2-on-1 handicap match that the TRX may or may not survive.įord had a plethora of V-8s at its disposal to plonk under the Raptor R’s hood: There were a lot of leaks and speculations all this while, and now, 1.5 years later, Ford has finally taken the wraps of the most powerful F-Series truck ever. However, at the end of the launch, the automaker dropped a bomb that gave an orgasm to all Ford fanboys – a V-8-powered TRX-killer is in the reckoning! Everyone expected Ford to put up a fight, but there was no sign of a V-8 and the Raptor made just as much power as before, way less than the Ram TRX’s – 450 vs 702 horsepower. Although this meant there was no major cannibalization between the two, Ford wasn’t going to sit quiet.Īt the brink of 2021, the company announced the new F-150 Raptor based on the 14th-gen F-150. The automaker decided to up the ante to incredible extents and came out with a truck that wasn’t just built to eat the beaten paths, but also establishes itself as a performance-oriented beast. Ford was happily enjoying dominating the off-road pickup truck segment with the F-150 Raptor for a long time until Ram decided to gatecrash the party.
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