Following its global debut last month, the Ford Ranger Raptor has now made its public debut in Thailand at the ongoing 2018 Bangkok International Motor Show. As such, pricing for the pick-up in the Kingdom has been announced – the Ranger Raptor 4WD goes for 1.699 million baht (RM210,000).
Quite a bit of money, but the Ford Performance-badged variant isn’t just a Ranger T6 with some dress-up bits slapped on. The changes carried out on Raptor are notably led by a new mill and transmission. It’s equipped with the Blue Oval’s new 2.0 litre EcoBlue twin-turbo diesel, which offers 213 PS and 500 Nm of torque – those numbers from the Panther unit are higher than that coming off the 3.2 litre Duratorq straight-five, which has 200 PS and 470 Nm.
It’s paired with a Getrag 10R80 10-speed automatic transmission, which takes over from the 6R80 six-speeder in this application. With a wider ratio-span, pluses offered by the new ‘box are improved acceleration, responsiveness and quicker gearshifts.
Other mechanical changes include uprated brakes – the Raptor gets twin-piston front calipers that are 9.5 mm larger than a regular Ranger’s, and these clamp on to 332 mm ventilated rotors. At the back, a single-piston 54 mm caliper can be found.
The Raptor – which sits on 17-inch model-specific alloys and 285/70 profile BF Goodrich all-terrain tyres – is also equipped with a set of 46.6 mm Fox Racing Shox dampers. The Position Sensitive Damping (PSD) units offer high damping forces on off-road excursions and comfort-oriented lower forces in the mid-travel zone when running on tarmac.
Styling has also been addressed – exterior kit in the Raptor styling pack includes a new frame-mounted front bumper and a dedicated blacked-out grille complete with large Ford lettering. There are also revised fender flares, which are made of composites to better resist physical damage like dents and dings. At the back, the rear bumper comes with an integrated tow bar and two recovery hooks rated at 3.8 tonnes.
Inside, the cabin includes sports seats complete with blue stitching, leather accents and a Raptor logo. There’s also a sportier-looking steering wheel and magnesium paddle shifters, among other things.
We know that the Ford Ranger Raptor will be coming to Malaysia – a model overview page popped up on Ford Malaysia’s official website last month following the global reveal, with a page for interested parties to register their interest. As indicated by its Thai pricing, the Raptor won’t be cheap when it eventually comes, but it’s definitely a whole lot of truck for the money.
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Not too bad. But for same $$$, Ford F-150 here.
Price so high. But I will stay away from Ford. Had a Ford Focus 2 years ago….not only parts sold by SDAC are super expensive (BMW and Mercedes levels) but have to wait 3 months for parts.
My Focus bumper took 3 months to come. How lah? I though from Europe but it took 3 months to come from Singapore!!!!
Next time, buy a ford assrmbled in thailand, like the ranger.
I also think ford should take over distributing their cars, like the germans.dime darby too diversified to do this.
Agree totally. Ford should just sell directly in Malaysia. Sime Darby got lazy malas attitude.
Ford used to be here themselves but decided to move to Thailand several years ago. Since then Sime Darby have been handling the distribution of the brand.
Go read Ford sales data. They sold 15 passengers cars last month whilst Porsche sold 41.
Good car brand but sadly operate by lousy sime Darby which don’t care of customer. Ford should really relook into this dealer both malaysia and thai.. they just ruin the brand
..coming to your rearview mirror soon…
Pickup can have high powerfull engine but not for speeding! Powerfull engine for carrying heavy load. Speed should limited to 90km/j only. With pickup speeding, they make other road user in danger.
I have a triton and i just love to see cars move out of the way when i speed. The fun would have been double on the raptor if not for the price. Like this, everest raptor will be too expensive.
The one thing they cd have upgraded is the steering wheel.. its basically the same as a Transit van but with a tacky red centre ring
you will eat my hilux revo blacksmoke that with
ALPHA TECH
Just think what happen to most vellfire / suv speeding i think more danger then ranger as ranger handle hi speed better…
Wildtrak still looks better.
Not only that, my Wildtrak with power chips is also more powerful.
Way too expensive for a pickup. I was expecting 160-170k in price…
The price of RM210k is if you directly convert the Thai price in baht to ringgit.
The actual price in Malaysia should be less, given the experience of other models including other Rangers.
I am guessing when this truck gets here the price will be somewhere in the region of 190k.
A very high for a pickup truck but there are plenty of goodies in this Raptor.
is it worth the 50k premium over the wildtrak ?
Whatever it is, it looks real good.