![]() ![]() Less weight also enables greater payload and towing capacity, as well as more miles between fill-ups. ![]() Here's the Raptor in its element: burning its candle at both ends in the middle of nowhere. When you're out leaping whoops and jumps in the desert, it isn't always "might makes right," as often as not, it's " light makes right." The new Raptor will likely still be staring at the TRX's taillights in a drag race, but not by much, and seriously, who drag races lifted trucks like this? The fact that the Raptor is significantly lighter should help its off-road ability - especially its jumping form - and really, that's more of what these super trucks are all about. Still with us? Before you go off and troll the Ford Facebook forums, MoPaR4Lyfe, note that the Raptor has 10 speeds in its automatic transmission versus the T-Rex's eight, and more importantly, the truck seen here figures to weigh 600 pounds less than the Ram. That said, even with a slew of powertrain upgrades, there's little doubt that the 2021 Raptor will fail to upstage the Ram 1500 TRX's supercharged 6.2-liter Hellcat V8, all 702 hp and 650 lb-ft of it. Today's Raptor's 3.5T develops 450 horsepower and 510 pound-feet of torque, so it's reasonable to expect the new truck's powertrain will best those figures. In any case, while Ford is not yet quoting horsepower or torque figures - let alone performance metrics like a 0-to-60-mph time, the current Raptor has never felt short of puff. Rest assured, a more-powerful eight-cylinder Raptor is coming. ![]() Before you ask, no, Ford hasn't gone with a V8 for this new Raptor - it's kept an updated version of the existing 3.5-liter twin-turbo EcoBoost V6, augmenting it with updated turbos, a higher 10.5:1 compression ratio and additional cooling fans for better towing and hauling ability. ![]()
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