Tuesday, December 27, 2011

"Purely Redneck" about the Raptor

We witnessed the Ford SVT Raptor at some episode of Top Gear USA (in Hennessey Velociraptor guise) where Tanner Foust challenges against a HALO Jumper and the Velociraptor lost. At the hands of The Stig's American cousin, it set a lap time of 1 minute and 39 seconds. It was close but we no matter what, the Raptor's one bad pickup for the road hogs. Tanner Foust said that there's something "purely redneck" about the Raptor's sound.

Tiff Needell's Renaultsport Megane
vs. Tanner Foust's VelociRaptor

With the Raptor included on Forza Motorsport 4 via the December IGN Pack, players can personalize the Raptor with a host of tuning parts, enhancements at the exterior to make it more look like the Raptor used at the Baja 1000 race, and best of all, set a Top Gear Power Lap Time. This is what makes this truck a bad-ass!

The Stig's American cousin already tried it,
but can The Stig tame this?

Hey, you know what, this what happens when the McLaren MP4-12C, Pagani Zonda R, Ford F-150 SVT Raptor, and the Renaultsport Megane are all playing the same music. The music where you heard it from a part where Tanner Foust races against the HALO jumper, Tiff Needell tries out the Zonda R at some kind of boring version of Top Gear called F*fth Gear, highlighting the McLaren MP4-12C's progress at the Nurburgring, and when Tiff Needell drives the RenaultSport Megane against a boxer sports car driven by Vicki Butler-Henderson at Rockingham.

Because most people trying to recreate the Hennessey Velociraptor, it is possible to reach this Raptor to "Velociraptor" levels just by swapping the engine into a Shelby GT500 engine and max out as far as you can. All it needs now are some DIY of the Velociraptor decals that you can paste it at the side of the Raptor.

So, can I hug it? Yes but that's a little scary and creepy...

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