2017 Ford F-150 Raptor

WHAT WE LIKE: Evidently the thing we like most about our Ford F-150 Raptor odometer at absurd rates: Since its entry in April of a year ago we've just ticked through 27,000 miles. This truck, on its surface, appears a far-fetched decision for over-the-street travel, however it gets utilized regularly for that since it's as able to do delicately gulping parkway miles as it is of eating Michigan chuckholes. Notwithstanding its 34-inch-tall BFGoodrich elastic and fridge in-a-wind-burrow air profile, the huge apparatus cruises not far off with the hush and quietness of an air-hockey puck. The entry of Michigan winter matched with the requirement for new elastic, prompting our revelation that, at full tread profundity, the BFG All-Terrain T/A KO2 is an exceptionally sensible winter tire. Indeed, even on hard-pressed snow, the tires delve in and beat the white stuff into solidified mash. Discussing winter-particular highlights, this F-150's remote-begin work spares us the weight of being cool while we pester our neighbors by roostertailing powder off the unplowed subdivision streets. There's a considerable measure to like here.

WHAT WE DON'T LIKE: Two editors griped about the truck's intermittent refusal to open its entryways on the primary pull of the handle when utilizing its detached passage work. Now and then a few yanks are required before it chooses to permit get to, yet the issue is flighty so we've not yet observed the merchant for it. We've found that our SuperCrew Raptor, at 19.3 feet long, is too ache for littler carports. We additionally recorded an appalling 8-mpg top off while towing a 22-foot, 3500-pound completely loaded snowmobile trailer to northern Michigan. In any case, that ought to be adjusted against tanks of 11 and 13 mpg while towing a 5000-pound open auto trailer to a similar locale. To date, our, ahem, "EcoBoosted" Raptor is averaging 14 mpg, 2 mpg short of its EPA joined rating.


WHAT WENT WRONG: Our first-refresh stresses over oil in the admission tract have to a great extent subsided; as of this composition, there has been no extra confirmation. At 24,000 miles we swapped every one of the four tires, a $1040 try including mounting and adjusting. A $150 routine oil change and assessment at 20,000 miles was precisely that and included substitution of both the lodge and motor air channels. Else, we haven't included any liquids.

WHERE WE WENT: Multiple outings to northern Michigan are represented in the Raptor's logbook. These are both recreational and utilitarian, including pulling snowmobiles for play or garbage autos we're never again permitted to keep at the workplace. One nontowing enterprise found the Raptor somewhere down in the Upper Peninsula playing with Wisconsin. The occasions incorporated an outing to Franklin, Tennessee. Each of these outings substantiates a greater amount of the Raptor's identity, which is normally joined by a turbo-suppressed snarl that sounds something like, "Unwind, I got this," trailed by a gross show of energy and regularly some flying street surface. Furthermore, so far the truck does, indeed, have it.