Softness is Engineered into the SVT Raptor’s Frame to Keep You Safe
Here’s SVT’s Chief Nameplate Engineer, Jamal Hameedi explaining how the Raptor keeps you safe when you exceed the vehicle’s limits:
“That energy has to be absorbed somehow, and we actually went through a fairly detailed FMEA [Failure Mode and Effects Analysis], so if you do happen to far exceed the suspension’s capability, the safest thing for that vehicle is for the frame to yield. If you had an infinitely stiff frame, then what that would do is, the rear of that vehicle – the suspension – when that axle is going up so hard, so fast, it would ‘donkey kick’ the rear of that truck really high into the air. That’s a very undesirable condition.”
The video below is a great example of how safe the Raptor is when the driver isn’t so safe.