15 years ago, there wasn’t really such a thing as a factory off-roader pickup truck. Most factory off-roading duties were reserved for options like the Land Rover Defender, and crazy off-road pickup trucks were just an idea. Then Ford came in and changed everything. In 2009, it introduced the F-150 SVT Raptor, incidentally one of the last ever vehicles to carry the Special Vehicle Team badge. Based on the 12th generation F-150, the Raptor was designed to go off-road — quickly.
Under the hood, buyers were given a choice between a 5.4-liter Modular V8, or the much meatier 6.2-liter Boss V8 plucked from the Super Duty family. The 5.4 put out a pretty good 320 hp, whereas the 6.2 bumped that up to 411 hp. These were pretty major numbers from a pickup truck and they allowed the Raptor to accelerate to 60 mph in 8.2 seconds with the smaller engine, or 7.4 seconds with the larger engine.
In the case of the Raptor, the top speed was almost irrelevant, except for the fact that it could achieve high speeds on any terrain, thanks to its standard BFGoodrich mud tires, uprated Fox shocks, skid plates, and massive amounts of suspension travel. Today, off-road pickup trucks are big business, so it’s unsurprising that first-generation F-150 Raptors haven’t really lost any value at all. Lower mileage examples with few or no mods will set you back a little over $30,000.
