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Is the "Very Gay Raptor" a social media hoax or a real thg om Ford Motor Co.? Here's the unsettlg answer.

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FORD ROLLS OUT 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC TROLL

Ford celebrat Pri Month wh a 2022 Bron Wildtrak rated the same lor scheme as 2021's 'Very Gay' Raptor Ranger. * ford truck gay pride *

Rters Fact Check has bunked different onle claims targetg the pany followg the partnership (here).The Ford mpaign, however, was shared June 2022, aligng wh Pri month (here).A spokperson for Ford said an email to Rters, “The vio is a year old and was created and ed by the Ford team Europe for a specific purpose – to make somethg posive out of a negative onle ment that a lor of our new Ranger Raptor pickup was ‘very gay.’”A prs release regardg the vehicle and the mpaign n be seen on the pany’s webse (here).VERDICTMisptned.

Ford did not release a new “Very Gay Raptor” ad mpaign 2023; the onle vio dat to 2022.This article was produced by the Rters Fact Check team. This year, 's a new Ford Bron Wildtrak 2-door and wears the same rabow and glter gold livery as last year's "Very Gay Raptor" built rponse to an ter troll.

-But that blue lor is very Gay!! In rponse, Ford created the rabow Ranger Raptor, postg on social media, "'Very Gay' was a pliment, right? — But that blue lor is very Gay!!

FORD ACTUALLY BUILT A 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' RPONSE TO AN TER TROLL

Ford builds Very Gay Raptor out of a Ranger Raptor Special Edn a strong stance agast homophobia. It buts at Christopher Street Day Cologne. * ford truck gay pride *

” What happened next was a masterclass shuttg down homophobic a vio released on Twter by Ford Europe, the tomaker revealed s new and improved “Very Gay Raptor” cked out rabows and gold glter. A 60-hour procs saw the vehicle draped rabow and gold glter Alpha foil, then topped wh rabow and heart isn’t even the first time that Ford has cked out a Gay Pri vehicle. Ford Ranger Very Gay Raptor 01.

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FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?

Is the "Very Gay Raptor" a social media hoax or a real thg om Ford Motor Co.? Here's the unsettlg answer. * ford truck gay pride *

Ford Ranger Very Gay Raptor 04.

Ford Ranger Very Gay Raptor 05. Ford rpond to an ter troll wh a strong statement agast homophobia, creatg a rabow and gltery gold-wrapped tck that parad the streets of Cologne, Germany to celebrate Pri Day. "Very gay" is how one ter nizen scribed the new Ranger Raptor Special Edn pickup a ment on a Ford Europe social media post.

The pany noticed and, rponse, took the ncept of a very gay Ranger Raptor and ran wh . -But that blue lor is very Gay!! ‘Very Gay’ was a pliment, right?

FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?

Ford Motor Company ran an ad featurg gay pri lors which has h social media the US settg on fire wh lls for a boytt. * ford truck gay pride *

✨? #VeryGayRaptor — Ford Europe (@FordEu). What Ford has dubbed the Very Gay Raptor ma s but at the Christopher Street Day para, a LGBTQ+ celebratn Cologne. The ncept never ma to productn, but was later repated rabow lors by Ford's ternal GLOBE (Gay, Lbian Or Bi-Sexual Employe) group for e Christopher Street Day celebratns for many years.

It looks like the Ford executiv who uld have stopped their brand om beg the “Bud Light of Tcks” had already done the ed a year ago, when they ran the “Very Gay Raptor” — y, that is s real name — at a major motorsports event. The ad featur the Worlds Strongt Men to nvce you how tough the new “Very Gay Raptor” really is!

The ad shared by London featur Rob Kearney, the first openly gay petor the World’s Strongt Man petn, talkg up the allyship he found the event. Others also recently posted promotnal vios of the “Very Gay Raptor, ” a rabow flag-becked versn of the $56, 000-pl tw-turbo performance tck:.

FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ SET TO REFE ‘TOUGH’ AT GOODWOOD

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The only thg that’s wrong about the statements is that the “Very Gay Raptor” isn’t somethg new. “Ford will ntue monstratg s allyship wh the LGBTQ+ muny at the Goodwood Ftival of Speed this week, brgg ‘Very Gay Raptor’ and the Next-Gen Ranger Raptor along for the ri, ” Ford said a news release last June, clarg that the tck would “refe ‘tough.

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