Yahoo Autos Shelby Ford F-250 Super Baja Shows What an HD Raptor Might Be Like
Shelby American, the people who just rolled out the 2021 Super Snake and two other hot takes on the Ford Mustang, have turned their hands to the Ford F-250 pickup.
The Shelby F-250 Super Baja features the Ford 6.7-liter Power Stroke V-8 diesel engine that makes 475 horsepower and 1050 pound-feet of torque.
Shelby will make only 250 of the heavily equipped Super Baja trucks, priced at (brace yourself) $125,805.
People love tough trucks, especially ones that are optimized for off-roading. Interest and demand for the Ford Raptor and the Ram TRX prove that. So it's only logical that Shelby would combine the two names of Baja and F-250 to reach the big-truck customer base with the Shelby F-250 Super Baja. Has a ring to it, right? With a name like that, of course it comes with lots of off-road goodies plus the mighty Power Stroke, a turbocharged 6.7-liter V-8 diesel engine that produces 475 horsepower and 1050 pound-feet of torque. It also comes with a hefty price tag.
The Shelby F-250 Super Baja begins life as a 2021 Ford F-250 Lariat 4x4 with the Ford Ultimate package that rings in at $68,415. The Super Baja package from Shelby adds roughly $57,470 to the bottom line, bringing this truck to $125,805. That money buys you embroidered leather seats and floor mats with the Shelby logo, custom carbon-fiber inlays, billet racing pedals, and a serialized dash plate indicating the build number, which can also be found on the engine cover.
Underneath the Super Baja are the interesting bits that include a beefier steering stabilizer, custom radius arms up front, and a BDS lift kit. Shelby's front suspension uses heavy-duty coil springs with dual adjustable 2.5-inch Fox dampers to absorb rough terrain when things really get moving. To keep the rear axle's motions in check, Shelby fits the Baja with Fox 2.5-inch Fox external bypass dampers. Clawing into terra firma are 37-inch BFGoodrich Mud-Terrain KM3 tires mounted to 18-inch Shelby aluminum wheels. The lighting is extensive: 11.8-inch LED fog lights, a curved 40-inch front light bar, and a 50-inch power-actuated light bar mounted to the top of the rack.
At $125,805, the Super Baja is a serious investment, especially when you consider that a F-250 that chugs diesel and equipped with the off-road Tremor package starts in the low $60,000s, roughly half the price of the Baja, but it also has nearly half the features. There are plenty of die-hard big-truck fans out there who'd agree the world could use more crazy three-quarter-ton diesel off-road trucks, even if they do begin approaching the price of a modest house.
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