We drove a $63,000 Ford Raptor pickup truck for a week and were blown away — here are the features that impressed us the most (F)

• The Ford Raptor is the ultra-intense, high-performance version of Ford’s F-150 full-size pickup.
• It’s ready for off-road action and has many cool features.
• We checked out most of them.

The Ford Raptor is the pickup truck taken to a wild extreme.

It’s the pickup member of the Ford Performance lineup, a family 0f vehicles that includes the 526-horsepower Mustang Shelby GT350 and the $400,000 Ford GT supercar.

And it’s a truck designed to bust through deserts, forests, and rock-strewn landscapes. As we found out when we reviewed it last year, it can also handle road trip duty.

We drove the $62,500 test vehicle for about a week and discovered that it is a simply awesome truck, in every way. Here’s a look at its best features: