It’s been fourteen years because the authentic Ford F-150 Raptor gave the impression with 310 horsepower from a 5.4-liter naturally-aspirated V8. These kind of years later and Ford has cranked up the ability to neatly over double that with the 2024 Raptor R’s 5.2-liter supercharged V8, which now makes 720 hp. The newly-revised Raptor R is essentially the most robust off-road full-size truck to ever hit the marketplace, even besting Ram’s now-dead Hellcat-powered 702-hp TRX.

When the Raptor R introduced for 2023, Ford cribbed its big-power V8 from the 760-horsepower Mustang GT500, despite the fact that the corporate claimed it was once pressured to cut back output to an insignificant 700 ponies within the truck platform. Except becoming a smaller supercharger and becoming solid exhaust manifolds, the engine was once in large part unchanged from its Shelby fashion roots. Raptor R drivers have been pressured to concede that they have been two horsepower much less cool than TRX drivers. But when they’d waited only a handful of months to reserve their Raptor R as a 2024 fashion, they’d don’t have anything to be downtrodden about (apart from their gasoline financial system and pedestrian affect survivability numbers).

Ford says it discovered the 20 horsepower between the sofa cushions and made up our minds to slap them on its superest of tremendous vans. In reality, it says the efficiencies have been accomplished with a smoother flowing consumption boot and higher engine control calibration, which additionally leads to a much wider and extra useable torque curve. Whilst I’m certain you wouldn’t in reality understand an additional 20 horsepower in a 700-horsepower truck, those numbers are all about bragging rights anyway. The truck’s torque quantity doesn’t in reality alternate with the brand new music, that means you’ll nonetheless must make do with the similar 640 pound-feet.

Is 720 horsepower actually going to get you farther off avenue than the 450 horses of the usual Raptor’s twin-turbo V6? Except you actually know what you’re doing, most likely no longer. The common Raptor will recover gasoline financial system, nevertheless it’ll sound so much worse, and are you able to actually put a value on supercharged V8 noises?