Hennessey Ranger Raptor

[veedubtuner]

Just saw this . Sorry if this belongs in 6G. I'm not registered there as I have no interest in a 6G lol. But this is badass!

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/hennessey-ford-ranger-velociraptor-toyota-tacoma-slayer

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[AzScorpion]

It'll be nice for someone with deep pockets. lol

A set of hefty, steel bumpers with an integrated bull bar in front, auxiliary lights and Hennessey badging are also included in the package, which is listed for $24,950 on top of the price of the $56,960 Ranger, which goes on sale later this year.

 

[Nellieg]

Tacoma fanboys in the comments on the article.... Not sure the hyperbole is based much in facts

 

[HippoTrucker]

Just saw this . Sorry if this belongs in 6G. I'm not registered there as I have no interest in a 6G lol. But this is badass!

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/hennessey-ford-ranger-velociraptor-toyota-tacoma-slayer

I've read a lot of less than glowing articles about Hennessey...

https://jalopnik.com/ex-employees-say-hennessey-is-a-bigger-mess-than-you-ev-1778134112

 

[veedubtuner]

It'll be nice for someone with deep pockets. lol

Like Michael Jordan lol.

https://www.motor1.com/news/668461/michael-jordan-delivery-hennessey-venom-f5-roadster/

 

[Jason B]

Only an extra $25K above the Raptor's $57K. What a steal!

 

[OFC Ranger]

Same as roush, a total rip off.

Take 1/4 the money and get the same results yourself, or take the same amount of money and buy a shit ton more product for your bucks.

Same old same old.

But people will buy it for the prestige and envy of the ignorant.

 

[Jason B]

Same as roush, a total rip off.

Take 1/4 the money and get the same results yourself, or take the same amount of money and buy a shit ton more product for your bucks.

Same old same old.

But people will buy it for the prestige and envy of the ignorant.

But you get that cool Hennessey or Roush badge!

 

[Big Blue]

Just another unnesessary way to separate some dude from his money so he can brag about what he's got.

 

[Trigganometry]

Big down payment for bragging rights or here’s your sign…

 

[OFC Ranger]

But you get that cool Hennessey or Roush badge!

The custom interior is about the only redeeming factor in any of these packages. I won't take credit away where credit is due, custom stitching or embroidery is not exactly a readily DIY option, especially if dash stitching is done. Of course their price tag is probably still super inflated over just taking it to a custom interior local shop.

Everything else in these packages are generally just off the shelf products pre-installed. A tune, some wheels, suspension, etc etc - you could probably buy the specific parts you wanted, pay someone to install them local, and still be magnitudes cheaper.

 

[OFC Ranger]

Take the current Roush level 1 package from Roush, $13,000 and the only performance part is is a re-branded exhaust and suspension. They don't even include their own in-house cold air intake, and the tuner is a different mini-package all together.

My setup (heavily one-off construction aspects) has me in the hole (sigh, "well that escalated quickly" /meme) is a tad over $10,000 when I add in 15% replacement cost due to current market conditions (so about $8,500 out of pocket).

My $450 tune right off the bat makes my truck more "powerful" than a $13,000 Roush package by itself in just that category alone. What is sad is my build has a shit-ton more features and capability than even the level 2 $17,000 package from Roush that gets you some lights, chase rack, etc etc

Now the trade off is I have hundreds of hours of labor invested, from prototyping, design revisions, and product testing - so that is about the only defense a pre-packaged setup can claim over DIY, "time is money" as they say.

About the only thing that I can't do, or have not learned, and don't have an interest in; custom interior stitching.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

The media always fawns over this guy whenever he looks at a new model sideways, but never bothers to look into the VERY NUMEROUS customer complaints.

A friend of mine who used to have a Viper was looking into getting it tuned by Hennessy, but the more he researched the more he decided to stay far away from him.

As with anything nowadays, YMMV, but I wouldn’t give a Hennessy anything a second glance.

 

[Zvedza]

Whats crazy is the people who still get the black ops or black widow packages at some crazy markup.
To what OFC was saying, when i was comparing the '21 tremor to a 21' roush the tremor offered more and cost way less.
Truly is a shame that shelby, roush, (dunno what saleen is up to these days) have all gone from a nice performance bump and look for a bit over base, to just gaudy over priced packages.

 

[OFC Ranger]

The media always fawns over this guy whenever he looks at a new model sideways, but never bothers to look into the VERY NUMEROUS customer complaints.

A friend of mine who used to have a Viper was looking into getting it tuned by Hennessy, but the more he researched the more he decided to stay far away from him.

As with anything nowadays, YMMV, but I wouldn’t give a Hennessy anything a second glance.

From my understanding in their past it was standard practice to take new customer money to cover old customer orders because of very terrible money management.

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