The 2020 Ford F-150 Raptor starts at $53,455 (plus a $1,695 destination fee unless you pick it up at the factory – which, at that price, may be a consideration).
The 2021 Ford F-150 Raptor will start at $64,145 — $65,840 with shipping and handling. According to a dealer order guide leaked to a Ford online forum and later confirmed by a Ford spokesperson, that price will get you the standard Raptor, while the company will offer a higher trim level for an additional $6,150.
The Raptor, for those of you unfamiliar, is Ford’s halo truck. Designed for off-road desert running at high speed, it has the beefiest suspension ever fitted to a factory pickup and a dedicated following in love with its monster capabilities.
The F-150 has been redesigned for the 2021 model year, and the high-speed off-road Raptor has with it. It will be available only in SuperCrew configuration, with the same 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 as the previous model but a substantially redesigned suspension. The new coil-sprung, 5-link suspension uses longer trailing arms and Fox Live Valve internal-bypass shocks, giving it about double the damping of previous Raptors.
Should that not be enough for you, available 37-inch wheels come with upgraded shocks. Yes, upgraded from the set that has double the power of the old set.
While a 20% price bump on the Raptor is a big deal on paper, we should probably point out that Raptors have been sold at higher prices in the past. When a specialty model like the Raptor is brand new, it’s not unusual for dealers to be allocated just a few trucks to sell that first year. That can lead to dealer markups even in a normal market.
When Ram released its own halo truck this year – the 2021 Ram 1500 TRX – we saw dealer markups as high as $50,000. Numbers that high won’t likely be common on the Raptor, but some markup is to be expected … even before the rumored V8 version debuts.
