The important numbers for an off-road vehicle are the wheel travel, ground clearance, entry, departure, and breakover angles. It is essentially the same 5-link used on the RAM TRX, with less than a half-inch longer rear coil. If this setup sounds familiar, it should. A massive 24-inch coil helps provide impressive suspension travel. Gone are the leaf springs, replaced by a 5-link coil-sprung rear suspension. Up front you get the same independent double-wishbone coil-over setup the current Raptor has, but the big news is out back. Ford says that these new shocks will respond “at the same speed the human brain processes visual information.” What this equates to is a super smooth ride over incredibly rough terrain as the shocks change their damping rates 500 times per second independently at each corner of the truck. The 2021 Raptor gets “gas-pressurized, electronically controlled, continuously variable compression damping FOX Racing Shox with 3.1-inch damper” at all four corners. The latest Fox Racing Shox technology has been packed into the new Raptor, with the next generation of the Live Valve tech introduced in 2019. The exciting news for the 2021 Raptor is the factory option of a 37-inch tire and 3 different 17-inch wheel choices, two that are beadlock capable. As you can imagine, the 2021 Raptor will have considerably more interior room for all passengers.Īs with the gen-2 Raptor, the standard tire and wheel combo is a 35-inch BFG AT KO2 wrapped on a 17-inch wheel. 3-inches wider, 12.6-inches longer, and a 12-inch longer wheelbase than the gen-2 Raptor. The new Raptor is 86.6-inches wide and 232.6-inches long with a 145-inch wheelbase. Of course, size matters, and the 2021 Raptor is even larger in all dimensions.
We expect this latest 2021 Ford Raptor to only accelerate sales, especially in these times of low gas prices. If true, that means there are a lot of go-fast off-road F-150 roaming the planet’s roads!
Over the last four years, the previous-generation Raptor cumulatively outsold Porsche’s entire lineup of sports cars and also outsold Chevrolet’s Corvette.” While we couldn’t verify the Raptor sales numbers, we did find that there were 83,484 Corvette’s sold in the last 4 years. Active valve equal length dual exhaust = more twin-turbo V6 growlįord claims that the “F-150 Raptor has eclipsed the sales of other well-known performance icons.Expected 500+ mile range (36-gallon tank).Lots of new tech: over-the-air updates, 12-inch infotainment touchscreen, cloud-connected SYNC 4, FordPass mobile app, and more.New 5-link coil rear suspension with Live Valve electronically controlled internal bypass 3.1 Fox shocks.35-inch standard and 37-inch optional tires on 17-inch wheels (beadlock capable options available).