What do you do with a truck that comes equipped with seventeen Shelby logos? A truck that has 4 LED light bars, three feet of suspension travel, a Whipple twin-screw supercharger that, when mounted to the Ford Raptor's 6.2-liter V8, churns out 575 horsepower and a whine reminiscent of a Klaxon on an exploding spaceship? What about a full chase rack that can hold ICBMs, a couple hundred Yamaha dirtbikes, or the World's Largest Ball of Twine in Cawker City, Kansas (approximate tonnage: 17,886 lbs) and adds to the truck's estimated total weight of three and a half tons?
You take it out to the desert—Hungry Valley outside Gorman, for starters. And you do your best not to eat your gun-toting friends.
That's what we did. (Guns aren't allowed in Hungry Valley, we know—that came later.) It's a ridiculous, balls-out, silly truck that costs entirely too much but is still fun as hell. How silly is it, exactly? Read on, at Autoweek.com.
The 2013 Shelby Raptor is ridiculous, wonderful