2011 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor

Writer has revealed today the 2011 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor Bird pick-up, a forge that comes with a new casebook 6.2-liter V8 engine that delivers a totality of 411 HP and 434 lb.-ft. of torque, new technologies and a freshly available SuperCrew deciding. Customers can already gauge their orders for the new posture.

For 2011, the SVT Raptor gets a new exterior justify, Block Silver Metallike - that give be ready with the orthodox inglorious interior, a new optional crook vivid, change grim pronounce graphics - including the F-150 SVT Raptor logotype and "F-150" and "SVT" backhand in evil cloudy.

The position of new technologies present allow: a touchstone 4.2-inch LCD (swimming crystal representation) fruitfulness cover, Comedian Declination Control™, electronic locking figuring settings and AdvanceTrac® with RSC® (Range Unchangingness Control™). Also new for 2011 is a new Advantageous Incase that offers position purview camera and trailer copse individual.

 A new canonical 6.2-liter V8 engine pumping out 411 horsepower, new technologies and a newly procurable SuperCrew option that gives Raptor customers many choices in cab filler all insure the 2011 Crossing F-150 SVT Raptor will rest the off-road execution pushcart hero in the new leader year.

"When we launched the F-150 SVT Raptor, consumers were dyspneal departed with the susceptibility of the vehicle," said Jost Capito, director of orbicular action vehicles and motorsports enterprise employment. "By adding the SuperCrew, we acquire expanded the versatility of Raptor, and now level solon enthusiasts present be healthy to undergo the no-compromise off-road show that only Bird delivers."

The F-150 SVT Raptor is the first-ever high-speed off-road show motortruck offered by any producer and highlights 33 age of Fording cart sales leadership by emphasizing F-150's Improved Filmmaker Belligerent durability, design and room. Formulated with the DNA of an off-road pre-runner, wide modifications convergent on chassis and inactivity enhancements.

The F-150 SVT Raptor is 7 inches wider than a part F-150 to puddle gathering for the added respite components that resign Raptor its unparalleled off-road abilities. The wider stance also gives the truck an pushful attending. Inside triple-bypass shocks by FOX Racing Shox - the position on a creation handcart - support position-sensitive damping and actor respite movement for extremum off-roading and a satiny move on the touring.

Raptor also has unequalled cast-aluminum first keep blazonry and SVT-tuned 35-inch BFGoodrich® All-Terrain TA/KO 315/70-17 tires. These components cater Bird 11.2 inches of advanced inactivity jaunt and 12.1 inches of place inactiveness trip on either SuperCab or the new SuperCrew.

The new addressable 145-inch-wheelbase SuperCrew substance with a 5.5-foot box adds to the voluminous angle of F-150 SVT Raptor features. Spell contributory more set and flexibleness for the consumer, the SuperCrew delivers action as substantially.

Applying lessons learned from the SuperCab F-150 SVT Bird, engineers were competent to correct the pushcart to manipulate off-road events with easiness. The 12-inch-longer wheelbase on SuperCrew also delivers the good of a author easy travel, especially in laciniate off-road situations.

"We spent a lot of term deed the ride and inactiveness characteristics of the SuperCrew twin to that of the SuperCab, and we were prosperous in exploit the said attribute and taste out of the SuperCrew," said Jamal Hameedi, SVT chief nameplate soul. "Spell the SuperCab and SuperCrew both make antithetic strengths, each is sacred of the Bird nameplate."

A larger 36-gallon provide tank and augmented towing aptitude - rated at 8,000 pounds - maintain 2011 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor, SVT Bird SuperCrew a booster in the waste surroundings, with capabilities as a track or tow handcart.

2011 Ford F-150 EcoBoost Testing with Mike Rowe

 

2011 Ford F-150 

It's not going to be easy to suasion truck buyers that they can have all the power, performance, and durability of a V-8 with just six cylinders, but that's th missionin front of Ford with its new 3.5-liter V-6 EcoBoost engine for the new F-150. Maybe you've seen the firsthire purchase of Ford's torture test campaign, rolled out as a multipart Internet short-form documentary with the "Dirty Jobs" guy, Mike Rowe, highlighting all the tests Ford put the new engine through in six months.

Ford completely revamped the F-150 powertrain lineup by offering four new engines, including a new all-aluminum 3.7-liter DOHC V-6, an all-aluminum 5.0-liter DOHC V-8, an all-new all-aluminum 3.5-liter EcoBoost direct-injection twin turbo DOHC V-6, and the 6.2-liter SOHC V-8 we've already seen in the Raptor and new Super Dutys. This new EcoBoost engine (also used in the SHO Taurus) is Ford's first application of the technology in a pickup truck, offering considerably better fuel economy numbers while holding onto maximum payload and towing numbers for the F-150 frame. It won't be an easy sell for loyal V-8 customers who are accustomed to the strength and durability of their favorite small-block half-tons. To counter their skepticism, Ford marketing gurus (no doubt after consulting with a few (engineers) have devised a multi-stage torture test worthy of the Marquis de Sade.
                                 

 2011 Ford F-150 EcoBoost 

The plan goes something like this: Pull an 3.5L EcoBoost off the line at random; run it on a shock-test dyno for the equivalent of 150,000 miles; drop that engine into a 2011 Red Candy Metallic SuperCrew XLT 4x4; send it deep into the Oregon forests to do heavy-duty log pulling; then have it do some more 24-hour torture testing pulling a heavy load at acelebrity raceway; then take the vehicle back to Davis Dam for some more towing with a few competitors; then finally yam the engine out of the F-150 and put into a competitive desert racetruck to run the Baja 1000. And then engineers will tear it down to see what kind of wear they find. So far, the engine has performed the perfect, without a single hiccup, but the torture is far from over. In fact, it's quite easy to identify this exact engine's ID number along the way. It's prominently displayed at the front of the right cylinder head as #448AA.
                      

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