This 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor sashays gently side to side, its wide all-terrain tires tracking the bumps and ruts in the sandy trail. The ventilated seats are set to high, while our hands twitch the wheel back and forth with minor corrections to keep the truck pointed straight. Well, straight-ish. We’re creating quite the dust cloud, but that’s less because of the swinging hips than our proximity to the speed governor. The Raptor doesn’t need to be traveling at triple digits through the desert to amaze, but it certainly helps. Its new twin-turbo 3.5-liter V-6 and 10-speed automatic transmission! Its turbochargers whistle more boost (up to 18 psi) into the manifold than do those of the regular F-150's 3.5-liter EcoBoost mill! This Raptor feels much quicker than its predecessor, and we expect it’ll reach 60 mph in the low-five-second range. With three overdrive gears, the 10-speed is above all a play for highway fuel economy, but its ratio spread does keep the twin-turbo six in the meat of its powerband, too.
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