{"id":2760,"date":"2023-06-20T10:53:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T02:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2023-06-20T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T02:53:51","slug":"ford-ranger-dakar-rally-raider-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=2760","title":{"rendered":"Ford Ranger Dakar Rally raider revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> close     <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/896\/500\/ranger-front.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"2024 Ford Ranger revealed\" width=\"896\" height=\"500\" data-v-b8a95802> Video <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\" data-v-b8a95802>2024 Ford Ranger revealed<\/h4>\n<p data-v-b8a95802>The 2024 Ford Ranger is all-new and available with three engines, including a 405 hp turbocharged V6 that comes in the high-performance Raptor model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The Ford Ranger is getting ready to race.<\/p>\n<p>   <!--&gt; --><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Ford has revealed the Ranger pickup-based competition truck it will enter the grueling Dakar Rally with next year.<\/p>\n<p>The automaker is launching an all-new Ranger in the U.S. this year that includes a high performance off-road Raptor model.<\/p>\n<p> <!--&gt; --><\/p>\n<p>The Dakar truck will wear the body of the last-generation global Ranger in 2024 before switching to the new one for the 2025 race.<\/p>\n<p><!--&gt;  \n\n<p>FORD'S 200 MPH WIND TUNNEL WAS DESIGNED TO BLOW THE COMPETITION AWAY<\/p>\n\n --> <!--&gt; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/640\/320\/ranger-front.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"ranger front\"> \n\n<p>Ford will enter the 2024 Dakar rally with a Ranger-based racing truck. (Ford)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two-week-long Dakar rally covers over 3,000 miles of Saudi Arabian desert.<\/p>\n\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/640\/320\/ranger-rear.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"ranger rear\"> \n\n<p>The truck rides on a custom chassis. (Ford)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The purpose-built vehicle was developed in collaboration with M-Sport and Neil Woolridge Motorsport and will compete in the top T1 class for the overall win.<\/p>\n\n-->   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ranger-curve.gif\" alt=\"ranger curve\"> <\/p>\n<p>The Dakar Ranger is powered by a 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged V6. (Ford)<\/p>\n<p>It is built on a tube-frame chassis and powered by a 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged V6 engine.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/8a44ecf6-ezgif.com-optimize-1.gif\" alt=\"ranger jump\"> <\/p>\n<p>The truck&#8217;s suspension has nearly 14-inches of wheel travel and can handle high speed jumps. (Ford)<\/p>\n<p>Its suspension provides nearly 14-inches of wheel travel and can handle big jumps at high speeds.<\/p>\n<p> <!--&gt; --><\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FOX NEWS AUTOS NEWSLETTER<\/p>\n<p><!--&gt;   --> <!--&gt;\n\n<p>\"Our first time in Dakar will be a learning adventure that will help inform how we compete in the future,\" said Ford Performance Motorsports global director Mark Rushbrook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"But as with all racing, we\u2019re not just racing to win, we\u2019re also racing to help build better products for our customers.\"<\/p>\n\n-->   <!--&gt; --> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/640\/320\/ranger-finke.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"ranger finke\"> <\/p>\n<p>A production-based 2024 Ranger racing truck won the Finke Desert Race in Australia. (Ford)<\/p>\n<p>To that end, a production-based race version of the new 2024 Ranger that completed last year&#8217;s Baja 1000 race during its development recently won the Finke Desert Race in Alice Springs, Australia.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/640\/320\/mustang-side.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Mustang gt3 on track\"> <\/p>\n<p>The Ford Mustang GT3 will enter several endurance racing series next year. (Ford)<\/p>\n<p>The Dakar entry is the latest move by Ford into major international racing, which will also include a return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans next year with the Mustang GT3.<\/p>\n<p> <!--&gt; --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>close Video 2024 Ford Ranger revealed The 2024 Ford Ranger is all-new and available with three engines, including a 405 hp turbocharged V6 that comes in the high-performance Raptor model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}