Ford Ranger Raptor Set for Q1 2024

by Matthew Guy

Published: November 28th, 2023

Most of us figured out long ago that, if we complain enough, it’s possible to get what we want. Off-road gearheads on this side of the pond (including this author) ~~whined~~ expressed an interest in the last-gen Ranger Raptor but that truck stayed on the other side of the pond. Now, we have a date for the ’24 model in America: The first quarter of 2024.

A goodly amount of the information sent to us by Ford under embargo last night was already public knowledge: 3.0L twin-turbo V6 making 405 horses, almost 80 inches of manspread, and lockers both front and rear. Still, details about the Fox live valve shocks are always welcome, and we learn these internal bypass units will be coilovers on ahead of the driver but have piggyback reservoirs astern. Combined with upper and lower control arms plus long-travel rear suspenders with a Watts linkage, the Ranger Raptor should be able to bust dunes with the best of them.

Other specs? Torque checks in at 430 lb-ft, which isn’t that far removed from the 2.7L EcoBoost that’s now available in workaday Rangers. However, the extra hundred ponies are sure to be felt and will likely contribute to a wired personality that seems to inhabit all Raptor-branded vehicles from the Blue Oval. Approach, departure, and breakover angles are 33.0, 26.4, and 24.2 degrees, respectively. That compares well with even the F-150 Raptor shod with 37-inch tires, which posts 33.1/24.9 approach and departure measures.

Speaking of tires, the 2024 Ranger Raptor will ride on BFGoodrich KO3 rubber, sized 33 inches in off-road speak or 285/70 for everyone else. Its 17-inch wheels will be available with or without beadlock-style gear; the latter is an option. Total width is 79.8 inches sans mirrors and its track dimension is 67.3 inches. For comparison, a Ranger of any other trim is 75.5 inches wide and has a 63.8-inch track. We look forward to seeing it in person.

Exterior styling, interior trappings, and the like have already been covered to death in what is the worst kept secret to come out of Detroit in ages, so we won’t bore you with those details once again. The truck will be built at the Michigan Assembly Plant and is scheduled to be available at dealers in the first quarter of the 2024 calendar year.

[Images: Ford]

Become a TTAC insider. Get the latest news, features, TTAC takes, and everything else that gets to the truth about cars first by subscribing to our newsletter.

#Ford #Ranger #Raptor #4x4

Matthew Guy

Matthew buys, sells, fixes, & races cars. As a human index of auto & auction knowledge, he is fond of making money and offering loud opinions.

More by Matthew Guy

Comments

Join the conversation

3 of 38 comments

Lou_BC on Nov 29, 2023

The dealbreaker for me is the $80k starting price in Canada.

Like Reply
EBFlex on Nov 29, 2023

Will the frame break in half too? That would be the ultimate throwback to the first generation Raptor.

1 Reply
- Lou_BC on Nov 30, 2023
  
  Most 1st generation Raptors that bent frames had modified suspensions.
  
  I know motocross riders who have bent frames, wheels, and blown shocks from jumping.
  Sh!t happens !
  
  Like

Recent Comments

GregLocock They will unless you don't let them. Every car manufacturing country around the world protects their local manufacturers by a mixture of legal and quasi legal measures. The exception was Australia which used to be able to design and manufacture every component in a car (slight exaggeration) and did so for many years protected by local design rules and enormous tariffs. In a fit of ideological purity the tariffs were removed and the industry went down the plughole, as predicted. This was followed by the precision machine shops who made the tooling, and then the aircraft maintenance business went because the machine shops were closed. Also of course many of the other suppliers closed.The Chinese have the following advantagesSlave laborCheap electricityZero respect for IPLong term planning
MaintenanceCosts Yes, and our response is making it worse.In the rest of the world, all legacy brands are soon going to be what Volvo is today: a friendly Western name on products built more cheaply in China or in companies that are competing with China from the bottom on the cost side (Vietnam, India, etc.) This is already more or less the case in the Chinese market, will soon be the case in other Asian markets, and is eventually coming to the EU market.We are going to try to resist in the US market with politicians' crack - that is, tariffs. Economists don't really disagree on tariffs anymore. Their effect is to depress overall economic activity while sharply raising consumer prices in the tariff-imposing jurisdiction.The effect will be that we will mostly drive U.S.-built cars, but they will be inferior to those built in the rest of the world and will cost 3x-4x as much. Are you ready for your BMW X5 to be three versions old and cost $200k? Because on the current path that is what's coming. It may be overpriced crap that can't be sold in any other world market, but, hey, it was built in South Carolina.The right way to resist would be to try to form our own alliances with the low-cost producers, in which we open our markets to them while requiring adherence to basic labor and environmental standards. But Uncle Joe isn't quite ready to sign that kind of trade agreement, while the orange guy just wants to tell those countries to GFY and hitch up with China if they want a friend.
CEastwood Thy won't get recruits who want to become police officers . They'll get nuts who want to become The Green Hornet .
1995 SC I stand by my assessment that Toyota put a bunch of "seasoned citizens" that cared not one iota about cars, asked them what they wanted and built it. This was the result. This thing makes a Honda Crosstour or whatever it was look like a Jag E type by comparison.
1995 SC I feel like the people that were all in on EVs no longer are because they don't like Elon and that trump's (pun intended) any environmental concerns they had (or wanted to appear to have)