2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor 6.2 - Road Test - Car and Driver
For years, I’d heard tales of a scenic but topographically malevolent gravel road that leads 420 miles to the top of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. “Helluva road,” said one. “You’ll wanna bring a truck,” advised a third. “A sturdy truck. Not your own truck. A 411-hp SVT Raptor is a sturdy truck. And the example that arrived in our parking lot belonged to the Ford Motor Company. Two-thousand and three miles later, we’d made it as far as La Ronge, Saskatchewan, which marked the end of pavement and the start of gravel. La Ronge is a dusty, hardscrabble burg, predominately populated by Woodland Cree. ” Urbano had already been marginally unnerved by La Ronge’s North Mart grocery store, where we’d stocked up on survival provisions. At dawn, we headed north and were surprised to find the gravel road remarkably well groomed, permitting bursts of up to 45 mph. At the 300-mile mark, we had reached Points North Landing, a fuel depot attached to a small airstrip hacked out of the granites and gneisses of the Precambrian Shield. Source: www.caranddriver.com
