The Raptor Origin Story

AutoweekUSA - Interesting interview

Ford SVT chief nameplate engineer Jamal Hameedi and senior exterior designer Bruce Williams talk about the genesis of the F-150 Raptor, intended to be an off-road racing.


Ford F-150 SVT Raptor origin story - exclusive designer & engineer interview video - YouTube

Nice video.

Very good watch

Good video...

Yeah, good find. Sounds like the Raptor's future is secure!

Great video. Fascinating how these guys could get the green light to develop something so different from what they were used to doing. I'm glad they did!


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Cool video find

Jamal mentioned how the quality of the Raptor during regular street driving really surprised people. This was so true for me and really sold the truck as far as I'm concerned. The offroad capabilities of the Raptor was enormous but I thought to my self, this was going to be my daily driver. I realized the Raptor was first an offroad race vehicle and knew the daily ride quality was going to suffer but hopefully not too bad. So I contacted the owner of the local dealer who is a friend/neighbor. He didn't have any Raptors at the moment but he let me test drive his son's 5.4 Raptor. I really wasn't looking for a lot of power to be honest. Anyhow, my first impressions was WOW! The Raptor was very pleasant driving around town, even more so than my wife's Z71 Tahoe! My only complaint was the odd shifting of the transmission combined with the 5.4 in town...which turned out to be normal for that set up. I told my friend to call me when he got a 6.2l. The better shifting of the 6.2 and extra passing power combined with such a street friendly offroad vehicle had me sold! That was 3yrs ago this June and I still make up excuses to drive my Raptor!!

This is a cool video. The nice thing that I noticed, was that Jamal stated a lot of the same things during the SVT visit. Really reinforces his passion for the truck.
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Yukon Joe
Buffalo Run Support Raptor
http://www.fordraptorforum.com/showthread.php?p=364119

I like how they refer to it as the current Raptor towards the end and mention the Atlas. I take that as they are developing the next generation Raptor

Just watched this on Autoblog.

How the Ford F-150 SVT Raptor became a reality