2013 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor Supercab review notes - AutoWeek
SENIOR ONLINE EDITOR RORY CARROLL: The 2013 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor is one of the few gas guzzlers that makes a trip to the gas station exciting . In a Toyota Prius , buying more gas allows you to travel more miles. In the Raptor, buying more gas is like buying more fun. But I do love this truck. That Ford's radical factory prerunner actually sells has to be icing on the cake. Not because it isn't awesome -- it is -- but because it's hard to imagine whose lifestyle a truck that's built to fly through the desert at 100 mph actually fits into. My time with our Raptor was mostly city driving in Detroit and Lansing, Mich. Rather than wishing I was out in the country, I found myself tooling around the city looking for stuff to drive over and jump. Really, if you can get past the fact that you look a certain way driving a truck like this, and that it's going to cost you a fortune in gas, it's pretty easy to live with. Political correctness aside, it is fun to drive a monster truck. EDITOR WES RAYNAL: Two friends of mine, I'll call them Joe and Calvin because, well, their names are Joe and Calvin, both owned Ford F-150s. Both worked in construction, one on homes and the other on commercial buildings. Both decided at about the same time they just couldn't afford the gas anymore and didn't really need the F-150s for work, and traded them in for passenger cars. Source: autoweek.com
