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Originally Posted by cpaharley2008
Here is the bad news, it is like a lead sled. It weighs over 5500 lbs with a GVWR of 6600 does not leave much room for payload.
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Really nice truck but built for off road, not towing.
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Yes, they're built for off-road, and maybe one in a hundred actually leaves pavement now and then.
I see them on the road here, and I don't think I've ever seen on with mud splatters. Payload is killed by the extra weight of the big tires, big wheels, wider bodywork, longer front suspension arms, extra shocks, etc.... a doesn't matter for three reasons:
- Few buyers will actually carry anything in them.
- The bed floor is too high to conveniently load anything.
- Loading anything over the box sides requires a ladder.
To be fair, it can still carry hundreds of pounds of stuff (or people, with the crew cab).
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Originally Posted by rbryan4
As a sport truck designed for off-road use at high speed, perhaps. As a tow? Nah.
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I agree. The real purpose for most buyers is to impress other truck drivers, although again to be fair it does perform impressively, and could tow any conventional Escape (or the 5.0TA with configuration effort and restraint in cargo weight).
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Originally Posted by gbaglo
Would that be the truck I saw on Top Gear, with the spare tire that took up the entire bed?
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The yellow one with the "artificial sun"? Close. In the B.C. episode, where the scenario was two pickups racing up trails on a snow-covered mountain to "rescue" someone, Clarkson drove a Velociraptor, which is Hennessey's name for a Raptor made more extreme by aftermarket modifications (including the spare tire rack). It was the previous-generation truck.
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Originally Posted by cpaharley2008
Probably, the bed is real small and the wheels really big.
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The Raptor is only available with the 5.5' box, but it's the same size as the the 5.5' box of other F-150 variants. The big tires and wide bodywork probably make it look smaller.
The spare probably goes in the normal location as built by Ford, but owners often put on even bigger tires which don't fit under the truck... and thus the bed-mount (or rooftop) spare tire carriers.