Raptorous applause for Ford’s new truck

The Ford Ranger Raptor: a brilliant piece of automotive engineering

There are plenty of cars in the automotive world, both in the present day and littered throughout the past, that have been designed and engineered for a specific purpose in life: cars that are optimised for track days, at the expense of their on-road pleasantry; cars that are optimised for sheer, unrelenting comfort, above all else; cars that are built to a specific cost . . . the list goes on.

But there ...