Kudos to FF for thinking outside the kit car box!
Photography Courtesy Factory Five
Need something even more capable off-road than the F-150 Raptor? Factory Five now has a solution for your woes: The XT-1 Pre-Runner Truck kit.
Billed as more than just “a modified F-150 with fender flares and a lift kit,” the XT-1 takes a 2015-2020 F-150 and replaces the ladder frame with a tubular steel frame. It then adds in Fox shocks, tubular control arms, four-link rear suspension and a truck bed, tailgate and bumpers made of aluminum.
In total, Factory Five says the performance of its XT-1 “exceeds even the most extreme Raptor-R, and is both streetable and off-road capable.”
[2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R new car review]
How much will all this set you back? The XT-1 Pre-Runner Truck kit starts at $24,990, and interested customers can order and configure a kit now at factoryfive.com/xt1.
Kudos to FF for thinking outside the kit car box!
Now, if they'd made this for Toyota trucks with rusty frames...
I like it. I've been a big fan of FF for over 20 years now and have been to the factory a few times for their open houses. Great company, great community. An FF Roadster (Cobra) is on my bucket list.
Keith Tanner said:Now, if they'd made this for Toyota trucks with rusty frames...
Agreed. Part of the fun of a kit car is buying a mechanically sound drivetrain from a junk car and putting it in a new body.
I don't know of any Raptors that meet both requirements.
"...the performance of its XT-1 “exceeds even the most extreme Raptor-R, and is both streetable and off-road capable.”
With a dead-stock F150 drivetrain? Doubtful. Kit car companies always do this, picking and choosing which "facts" to state while ignoring other necessary changes. Far less exciting would be buying a used Raptor and just be happy, but what do I know!
Raptors aren't exactly cheap donor vehicles. I don't see this being much of a success.
I like the concept of turning a regular truck into a Raptor-esque truck but it still just sort of looks like a debadged f150 to me.
I would think that for cheap donor purposes, they would have looked to 04-08 F150s with the guaranteed-to-rust frames. Or the Tundra or Sequoia with similar rust problems.
They're using a regular F-150 as the donor, not the Raptor.
The donor vehicle can be a regular 2015 to 2020 F150, not necessarily the Raptor.
That's a pretty neat truck. And actually pretty tempting.
I guess FF has a history of using Ford but I don't think I would have designed it for a Ford donor. I would have used Chevy to get all the iterations of the LS powerplant from 4.8L to 7L and their leggo-building capabilities.
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