Pricing revealed at Bangkok International Motor Show.
The new Ford Ranger Raptor isn’t slated for U.S. distribution, but in other markets around the world, the new off-road-ready pickup will have a starting price that equates to roughly $40,000 U.S. dollars, according to a report by Gizmodo. This is based on pricing for the Thai market that was announced at the Bangkok International Motor Show.
High Performance Pricing
If Ford really doesn’t offer the high performance Ranger in the U.S. market, none of this pricing will ever matter to Americans, but with the new Ranger slated for U.S. sales in 2019, it seems unlikely that the domestic market will never get this off-road-ready version. However, for the time being, the Raptor version of the mid-sized Ford pickup is only planned for foreign markets.
One market is Thailand and at the ongoing Bangkok International Motor Show, the Motor Company announced the local pricing for the high performance Ranger. At 1,699,999 Bhat (Thailand currency), the Raptor is more than a million Bhat more than the base Ranger and more than 780,000 Bhat more than a standard four-wheel-drive, Double Cab version.
Based on current currency conversion rates — and our best guess-timation — the high performance Ranger sold in Thailand would cost around $40,000 U.S. dollars. Now, if the Ranger Raptor comes to the U.S., it is unlikely that it would have the same basic pricing as it does in Thailand, as Ford vehicles tend to cost less in the U.S. than they do in foreign markets.
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