Shelby Raptor...... F150

[sn95jones]

Was waiting for this day to come...

Shelby American, the company founded by Carroll Shelby and known for its Cobras, Mustangs, and, more recently, the Focus ST, has also built plenty of trucks. Shelby -- and F-150 -- fans may remember the F-150 Super Snake, the most recent previous high-performance pickup from the company.Here is the latest pickup truck endeavor from Shelby -- the Shelby Raptor. This is the first time Shelby has designed a full package for the Raptor. It's also the first time the company has offered a package for an off-road-biased truck. John Luft, president of Shelby American, explains, "As a native Texan, Carroll Shelby loved powerful trucks. He connected his love for trucks with his passion for performance on several projects, with the first one over 30 years ago. The latest Shelby truck was created to conquer any terrain with serious velocity."The Shelby Raptor is based on the 2013 Ford SVT Raptor. The engineers installed a 2.9-liter supercharger onto the Raptor's 6.2-liter V-8 and added a Borla exhaust as well. This combination helps take the engine output from 411 horsepower to a whopping 575 horses. The V-8 still works with stock elements of the Raptor, such as the six-speed automatic with manual shifting, and does not lose any capability off-road. The Shelby engineers made sure to use the Raptor's Off-Road mode to the truck's advantage. It makes the best use of stability control, traction control, and the transmission when driving at high speed off-road. Instead of fiddling with that and risking reducing the truck's amazing off-road capability, they improved the cooling, by installing an oversized intercooler, and handling of the truck to improve its durability in the dirt. Notes Luft, "In addition to the wheel and tire package, we're developing various handling options tailored to an owner's use of his truck, such as serious off-road versus more street driving. Those suspension packages will focus on the upper and lower control arms, shocks, and bushings"

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[ttocs]

does it come with a wallet with "BAD MUTHERFUKER"? It should... Hate to know the price though...

 

[Orange 94]

insert take my money meme.

 

[sn95jones]

Im gonna guess anywhere from $60K - $80k

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[justinschmidt1]

Might as well buy one and throw a blower on it rather than paying an extra 40k for a blower and exhaust haha

 

[chrisv_10]

The huge Shelby decal looks stupid. Badass truck regardless of the stupidity.

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[1997GT4.6]

Ugh this is why I am not that much of a fan of Shelby automotive. This sounds bad from a mustang owner but I am tire of the same damn recipe from Shelby. They slap a blower on a car with exhaust and put shelby decals/badges on it and call it a day. Fugging retarded. All except the 2013 GT500's since those were in cooperation with SVT. God bless the shelby family but cot damn give us something that is actually an upgrade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[justinschmidt1]

Ugh this is why I am not that much of a fan of Shelby automotive. This sounds bad from a mustang owner but I am tire of the same damn recipe from Shelby. They slap a blower on a car with exhaust and put shelby decals/badges on it and call it a day. Fugging retarded. All except the 2013 GT500's since those were in cooperation with SVT. God bless the shelby family but cot damn give us something that is actually an upgrade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel like SVT and shelby are 2 different things.

The 2013 GT500 is a SVT vehicle with the shelby name on it...SVT makes badass vehicles like the lightning, terminator, and the raptor to begin with.

Seems like shelby is throwing 10k worth of crap on the car and trying to charge 20-40k for it or something dumb.

 

[sn95jones]

I feel like SVT and shelby are 2 different things.

The 2013 GT500 is a SVT vehicle with the shelby name on it...SVT makes badass vehicles like the lightning, terminator, and the raptor to begin with.

Seems like shelby is throwing 10k worth of crap on the car and trying to charge 20-40k for it or something dumb.

Agreed, Shelby to me is nothing special now SVT on the other hand hell to the yes

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[ttocs]

svt will never have the collectability that a shelby will just on face value though.

 

[justinschmidt1]

I disagree. I don't think anyone cares about any of this crap they slap the Shelby name on anymore.

Were not talking about real Shelby's anymore.

Just my 02c of course.

 

[Orange 94]

I disagree. People will always care about the shelby name. You could sell a cardboard box for 10 times the price if it has the shelby name on it.

At the end of the day its something different, fast and expensive. People like it.

 

[chris91]

The Shelby package is an extra 18k on top of the 44k for the truck. But you know the dealerships will be raping people on them with their markup like they always do.

 

[KillNThrill24]

Thats badass lol. I'm not sure I'll ever own anything Shelby branded just because of the inflation that goes along with it. While they are pretty cool, it's still just stupid how much the price gets jacked up because of it.

I agree with JS.. I'd rather buy the parts myself and hell even pay to have them installed if I don't want to do it, and I'd still come out spending less than this. Great idea nonetheless for those who's wallets don't have a bottom

 

[justinschmidt1]

I disagree. People will always care about the shelby name. You could sell a cardboard box for 10 times the price if it has the shelby name on it.

At the end of the day its something different, fast and expensive. People like it.

Instead of putting your money in savings accounts, real estate, stocks, etc you should just start buying Shelby vehicles. By the time you retire all those collectors items will easily make you a millionare



Yea, people care about the shelby name but when you talk about a car being collectable, my mind jumps to them increasing in value over the years...and I truthfully dont think that will happen to any of the current shelby models.

The production numbers are way too high for there to be any real collectors value in them anyway. Were not talking about hundreds of cars, were talking thousand upon thousands now and they've tarnished the name IMO when they started doing retarded stuff like the 2006/2007 Shelby GT's.

Basically took a stock GT, slapped a few visual modifications on it and a CAI and called it a day.

Thats not what a real shelby is about.

 

[Walking Tall]

The dealership my sister works at is supposed to get one. I plan on enthusiastically humping it. They get a lot of Roush Raptors too.

 

[ttocs]

Instead of putting your money in savings accounts, real estate, stocks, etc you should just start buying Shelby vehicles. By the time you retire all those collectors items will easily make you a millionare



Yea, people care about the shelby name but when you talk about a car being collectable, my mind jumps to them increasing in value over the years...and I truthfully dont think that will happen to any of the current shelby models.

The production numbers are way too high for there to be any real collectors value in them anyway. Were not talking about hundreds of cars, were talking thousand upon thousands now and they've tarnished the name IMO when they started doing retarded stuff like the 2006/2007 Shelby GT's.

Basically took a stock GT, slapped a few visual modifications on it and a CAI and called it a day.

Thats not what a real shelby is about.

You make it sound like this was some new recipe they just came up with? Some people have had the same complaint about shelby since the 70's.

So lets put it this way, what would be worth more today (if there were one made) a shelby sn or a turbo/super-charged sn95? I think you know how much a used boosted SN sells for do you really think that you would come out ahead of the game when it came time to sell your home-made shelby or the real thing with all the stickers/add on crap? They are making more of them then they use too but I think those cars will hold their value alot better then if you were to make your own and sell it. We all know that we loose our ass on all our gofast goodies when we go to sell it, well shelby isn't so worried about it.....

 

[Orange 94]

Instead of putting your money in savings accounts, real estate, stocks, etc you should just start buying Shelby vehicles. By the time you retire all those collectors items will easily make you a millionare



Yea, people care about the shelby name but when you talk about a car being collectable, my mind jumps to them increasing in value over the years...and I truthfully dont think that will happen to any of the current shelby models.

The production numbers are way too high for there to be any real collectors value in them anyway. Were not talking about hundreds of cars, were talking thousand upon thousands now and they've tarnished the name IMO when they started doing retarded stuff like the 2006/2007 Shelby GT's.

Basically took a stock GT, slapped a few visual modifications on it and a CAI and called it a day.

Thats not what a real shelby is about.

Yeah I agree with a lot of that. But until the general public thinks like that they're not going to stop... They're still making these cars for a reason: they sell.

I agree with the over production... I remember when a new style gt500 was special. Now everyone has one.

 

[justinschmidt1]

You make it sound like this was some new recipe they just came up with? Some people have had the same complaint about shelby since the 70's.

So lets put it this way, what would be worth more today (if there were one made) a shelby sn or a turbo/super-charged sn95? I think you know how much a used boosted SN sells for do you really think that you would come out ahead of the game when it came time to sell your home-made shelby or the real thing with all the stickers/add on crap? They are making more of them then they use too but I think those cars will hold their value alot better then if you were to make your own and sell it. We all know that we loose our ass on all our gofast goodies when we go to sell it, well shelby isn't so worried about it.....

Idk, maybe im crazy, just seems like the old shelbys, late 60s had like big blocks in them and were nuts, the AC cobra was a lightweight british car with a 427 in it. Just seems like there was more put into them to me, not like a 2006 shelby GT which is a 06 GT with a CAI.

I agree, a "shelby sn95" would be worth more money than a generic GT with a blower, but what about the fact that if there was such thing as a shelby sn95, the buyer would have probably paid 40k for it instead of the 20k an sn95 buyer might have spent back in the day.....so selling it for even twice the value of your avg sn95 today doesnt really make it some great investment if you paid 20k extra for it back in the day.

Thats how I see it anyway lol

Yeah I agree with a lot of that. But until the general public thinks like that they're not going to stop... They're still making these cars for a reason: they sell.

I agree with the over production... I remember when a new style gt500 was special. Now everyone has one.

True, theres a lot of people that will pay money because something has a roush/shelby/saleen logo on it.

 

[chris91]

They are only producing 100 per year of these.