Ford Ranger Raptor Special Edition UK review: Ford's pick-up goes out with a racing-stripes-adorned, off-road-honed bang
Do you ever find yourself looking at the hulking, jacked-up Ford Ranger Raptor pick-up truck and thinking “it’s nice, but it’s not quite lairy enough”?
Us neither: its outlandish off- road suspension-and-tyre package already give it more than enough presence on Britain’s cramped streets . But this new Special Edition – which arrives as the current-generation Ranger prepares to bow out – ups the ante with “extra badass as standard”. Roughly translated, that means it gains racing stripes, red accents inside and out and matt-black trim all round. If it didn’t stick out in the supermarket car park before, you can guarantee that it will now.As with the ‘standard’ Raptor, its chassis has been heavily strengthened to cope with Baja-style knocks and jolts, its track is extended 150mm over the less hardcore XLT and it rides 51mm higher, courtesy of its beefy Fox shocks and colossal General Grabber AT3 tyres.
But all those upgrades aside, the powertrain remains largely unaltered over that fitted to more common-or-garden Ranger variants: a 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbodiesel is hooked up to a ten-speed automatic gearbox, sending a sedate-sounding 210bhp to the rear or both axles for a distinctly normal 0-62mph time of 10.5 seconds.
That said, it’s an effective and none-too-ruinous powertrain in day-to-day driving scenarios. We got 30mpg on a 100-mile motorway run, during which the motor was unintrusive and shifts from the 10-speed automatic gearbox were well timed.
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