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The Ford Motor Company has recently been all about motorsport – its legendary Mustang has turned into a diehard endurance racer at this year's edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the iconic F-150 became the King of the Mountain at PPIHC.
More precisely, the mind-breaking 1,400-horsepower Ford F-150 Lightning SuperTruck became the King of the Mountain, although it broke down in the middle of the race! The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) is arguably the most famous hill climb race worldwide, and the Blue Oval company was both a source of reliability-related memes and pride and joy.
This is the American carmaker with the most recalls almost every year now, and the prototype piloted by the legendary Romain Dumas unexpectedly switched off during the race's first sector. That's hardly a surprise – electrical and software issues have plagued EVs lately – and since it's a prototype, several things could go wrong with a race car.
After losing 26 seconds, the F-150 was up and running – when it finished in 8:53.553, it was crowned this year's King of the Mountain. Of course, some will lament the fact that an EV did that – and others will be sad that Ford chose the dune-bashing and rock-crawling F-150 for an asphalt-based event. However, folks need to understand – there are also people who would love an F-Series that can ridicule a sports car or muscle car at a timed track event or at the local quarter-mile dragstrip.
For those, the imaginative realm of digital car content creators has a solution – this CGI template could easily serve as the base of digital operations for a real-world build that could shame supercars. More precisely, London, UK-based virtual artist Al Yasid, better known as al.yasid on social media, is again making purists run amok crying their Ford outrage with a fresh F-150 Raptor transformation. Or not?
Anyway, his vision involves an all-black (murdered-out) Ford F-150 Raptor that's easy to recognize as an F-Series yet so far-fetched from the current 2024 model year lineup you couldn't even tell if this was originally an XL, STX, XLT, Tremor, Lariat, King Ranch, Platinum, or Raptor variant. Luckily, the pixel master specifically identifies this as the Raptor model – which currently starts from $78,440 at home in America.
This one, though, doesn't even look like a Raptor anymore – it still has the big-letter 'Ford' script front and back, but on the other hand, the LED headlights and DRLs are modified, the bumper is completely different and infused with a humongous lip spoiler, the hood has a nice vent, and there's even more to it on the sides and at the rear.
Those include wider fender flares, a slammed atmosphere, white-wall Goodyear slicks, plus a massive aerodynamic package around the back, four exhaust pipes, a massive diffuser, and additional roll bars. Obviously, this isn't your average Ford F-150 Raptor, but the author says nothing about the powertrain and whether or not the 450-hp EcoBoost V6 still resides in the engine bay.
Instead, the virtual artist went on and prepared a 3D visualization that shows the trick air suspension at work plus the options for rubber – the Goodyear slicks were swapped for a set of fantasy airless tires and appropriate concave black wheels. So, which is your favorite?
This is the American carmaker with the most recalls almost every year now, and the prototype piloted by the legendary Romain Dumas unexpectedly switched off during the race's first sector. That's hardly a surprise – electrical and software issues have plagued EVs lately – and since it's a prototype, several things could go wrong with a race car.
After losing 26 seconds, the F-150 was up and running – when it finished in 8:53.553, it was crowned this year's King of the Mountain. Of course, some will lament the fact that an EV did that – and others will be sad that Ford chose the dune-bashing and rock-crawling F-150 for an asphalt-based event. However, folks need to understand – there are also people who would love an F-Series that can ridicule a sports car or muscle car at a timed track event or at the local quarter-mile dragstrip.
For those, the imaginative realm of digital car content creators has a solution – this CGI template could easily serve as the base of digital operations for a real-world build that could shame supercars. More precisely, London, UK-based virtual artist Al Yasid, better known as al.yasid on social media, is again making purists run amok crying their Ford outrage with a fresh F-150 Raptor transformation. Or not?
Anyway, his vision involves an all-black (murdered-out) Ford F-150 Raptor that's easy to recognize as an F-Series yet so far-fetched from the current 2024 model year lineup you couldn't even tell if this was originally an XL, STX, XLT, Tremor, Lariat, King Ranch, Platinum, or Raptor variant. Luckily, the pixel master specifically identifies this as the Raptor model – which currently starts from $78,440 at home in America.
This one, though, doesn't even look like a Raptor anymore – it still has the big-letter 'Ford' script front and back, but on the other hand, the LED headlights and DRLs are modified, the bumper is completely different and infused with a humongous lip spoiler, the hood has a nice vent, and there's even more to it on the sides and at the rear.
Those include wider fender flares, a slammed atmosphere, white-wall Goodyear slicks, plus a massive aerodynamic package around the back, four exhaust pipes, a massive diffuser, and additional roll bars. Obviously, this isn't your average Ford F-150 Raptor, but the author says nothing about the powertrain and whether or not the 450-hp EcoBoost V6 still resides in the engine bay.
Instead, the virtual artist went on and prepared a 3D visualization that shows the trick air suspension at work plus the options for rubber – the Goodyear slicks were swapped for a set of fantasy airless tires and appropriate concave black wheels. So, which is your favorite?
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