Alright, so this would have been ideally published in the lead up to Christmas, not just right after it. But we figure it’s worth a watch anyway and are happy to share it to those who have not yet seen a racing Ford F-150 Raptor haul a tree back home in the most needlessly rushed and impractical way you’ll see between now and 2019.
When we say Ford F-150 Raptor, though, we mean so with a loose grasp of the name since, like Nascar and V8 Supercars, the vehicle’s body is merely an approximation of what a production example looks like, but otherwise sits on a competition-spec Lucas Oil Off-Road Pro 4 class racing truck.
This also explains why ‘Ford’ in the video is much scarier perhaps borderline lethal, requiring the skills of series champion Kyle LeDuc. A lightweight tube chassis forms the F-150’s skeleton, housing a mid-mounted 671kW high-revving V8, six-speed Xtrac sequential transmission, and complex four-wheel drive system.
The tree was loving the trip back home, we would imagine, but seems to be stripped of a lot of its bottom leaves that Mr. LeDuc and his significant other had to erect a a pretty barren looking tree for Christmas. Then again, it’s the thought that counts and the journey that matters. Or something like that.
