The 2023 Ford Bronco Raptor has been a long time coming and in the next few months, is expected to be unveiled. Before that happens, various images of a lightly-camouflaged prototype have hit the web.
This particular Bronco Raptor prototype was recently tested by The Bronco Nation and only has skin-tight camouflage across the hood, tailgate, and along its sides, providing us with an excellent look at the upgraded design.
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The most obvious difference between the Bronco Raptor and lesser Bronco models will be the presence of wider front and rear wheel arches that give the off-roader an even more extreme presence on the road. These new arches will also allow Ford to equip the vehicle with larger 37-inch off-road tires.
Elsewhere, we can see that the Bronco Raptor rides much higher than the standard model, providing it with more ground clearance. The front bumper looks largely the same as the regular model, although we can see it has been equipped with a new blacked-out grille with large ‘Ford’ text as opposed to the ‘Bronco’ script featured on the grilles of lesser models.
Alterations made to the rear are less obvious but the taillights look to have been tinted and have a simpler light signature (although these may not be production-ready lights).
The Bronco Nation suggests that the Bronco Raptor will ditch the current 2.7-liter EcoBoost V6 of the standard ‘range-topping’ model and instead use Ford’s 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged EcoBoost, the same engine as the Ford F-150 Raptor and likely producing the same 450 hp and 510 lb-ft (691 Nm) of torque.
