Fact Check: Has Ford Rolled Out an LGBT 'Very Gay Raptor' Tck?

Contents:

• FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ SET TO REFE ‘TOUGH’ AT GOODWOOD
• IS THE FORD 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK REAL?
• FORD ACTUALLY BUILT A 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' RPONSE TO AN TER TROLL
• FORD BUILDS 'VERY GAY' RANGER RAPTOR IN RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC COMMENT
• FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?
• FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ AD GO VIRAL: IS THE WOKE COMMERCIAL REAL?
• WATCH: FORD HAS ROLLED OUT AN LGBT ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ TCK
• FORD CREATED A RABOW 'VERY GAY' RANGER RAPTOR IN RPONSE TO AN ONLE TROLL
• CONSERVATIV ARE GOG AFTER FORD’S VERY OLD, VERY GAY RAPTOR
• REPORT: FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ A RPONSE TO A GAY SLUR
• FORD'S VERY GAY RAPTOR READY FOR GOODWOOD ACTN
• FORD VERY GAY RANGER RAPTOR MAK COLORFUL DEBUT AT GOODWOOD
• AMID THE BUD LIGHT-DYLAN MULVANEY BACKLASH, FORD’S ‘VERY GAY’ TCKS HAVE RURFACED
• FACT OR FICTN: 2023 RAPTOR OFFERED RABOW LOR THEME LLED VERY GAY RAPTOR?
• FORD GERMANY UNVEILS ‘VERY GAY’ TCK, PATED GLTER GOLD AND RABOW LORS, EPIC RPONSE TO HOMOPHOB
• FORD BUILDS 'VERY GAY' RANGER RAPTOR RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC MENT
• FORD UNVEILED A 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO A HOMOPHOBIC COMMENTER
• “VERY GAY RAPTOR” BUILT BY FORD

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

“Very Gay Raptor”’ (VGR) and Next-Gen Ranger Raptor to appear at the Goodwood Ftival of Speed, reaffirmg Ford’s long-term mment to LGBTQ+ allyship.

GOODWOOD, UK, June 21, 2022 – 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. The appearance of “Very Gay Raptor” at the event near Chichter, UK, will be ed to further iate important discsns and aimed at drivg out discrimatn the tomotive dtry, and beyond. As part of this, Ford will be prentg live ssns of s new “Tough Talks” seri at Goodwood om the tck bed of “Very Gay Raptor”, hosted by Welsh gby legend Gareth Thomas, the first openly-gay gby unn player.

IS THE FORD 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK REAL?

Created 2021, “Very Gay Raptor” was born rponse to a negative ment on social media, wh Ford renrg s most badass nameplate sparklg gold adorned wh rabow graphics. In a vio teasg the appearance of “Very Gay Raptor” and Next-Gen Ranger Raptor at the event, both vehicl speed through off-road trails vered mud – at tim takg different paths, facg off, yet displayg their equally imprsive and tough abili, regardls of their differg inti. The Next-Gen Ranger Raptor, appearg for the first time as “Very Gay Raptor”, will make s European dynamic but at Goodwood, tacklg the challengg off-road track between ns up the famo hill, powered by a tw-turbo 3.

0-lre EBoost V6 homologated CO2 emissns 315 g/km and homologated fuel efficiency om 13. Ford created a tck lled the "Very Gay Raptor. ContextThe "Very Gay Raptor" is a real tck created by Ford 2021.

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

The pany reportedly created the r rponse to a social media post that referred to the "Performance Blue" lor optn on Ranger Raptors as "very gay.

FORD BUILDS 'VERY GAY' RANGER RAPTOR IN RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC COMMENT

In May 2023, claims began to spread onle that Ford had buted a new tck lled the "Very Gay Raptor, " a vehicle pated gold dt and rabow graphics. " Attached to the tweet was a mercial claimg to show the "Very Gay Raptor" advertised by Ford. @44vatox Ford buts their new 2023 "Very Gay Raptor" #mexintiktok #fortheraza #lgbt #verygayraptor ♬ Spense Mic - Gabriel Andra Produçõ.

The "Very Gay Raptor" is real, but 's not new. It began as an attempt by our team Europe to turn a negative to a posive wh -kd rponse to a social ment 2021 assertg that a lor of the then-new Ranger Raptor tck was 'very gay' – somethg which offend lleagu and ctomers. In September 2021, ABC 10 News reported that Ford of Germany had created the r rponse to a social media post that referred to the "Performance Blue" lor optn on Ranger Raptors as "very gay.

On June 21, 2022, nearly a year later, Ford News Europe posted a vio to s YouTube page tled, "Ford's Very Gay Raptor Ref 'Tough' for a New Generatn. Ford lled out a homophobic rponse to a Ranger Raptor vio last year by creatg the real-life "Very Gay Raptor.

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

In a 2022 prs release about the tck, Ford said the vio was meant to tease the appearance of the "Very Gay Raptor" as well as the Next-Gen Ranger Raptor at the Goodwood Ftival of Speed, an annual U. Ford's Very Gay Raptor Ref 'Tough' for a New Generatn.,. "FORD'S 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' SET TO REDEFINE 'TOUGH' AT GOODWOOD.

"Fact or Fictn: Ford Built a 'Very Gay' Raptor? Ford Ranger Very Gay Raptor 01.

FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ AD GO VIRAL: IS THE WOKE COMMERCIAL REAL?

Ford Ranger Very Gay Raptor 03.

WATCH: FORD HAS ROLLED OUT AN LGBT ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ TCK

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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!!

FORD CREATED A RABOW 'VERY GAY' RANGER RAPTOR IN RPONSE TO AN ONLE TROLL

‘Very Gay’ was a pliment, right?

✨? #VeryGayRaptor — Ford Europe (@FordEu).

CONSERVATIV ARE GOG AFTER FORD’S VERY OLD, VERY GAY RAPTOR

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 was also created due to a specific, negative social media menter that lled the Raptor's origal lor of Performance Blue "very gay. " As such, Ford specifilly named this pickup the Very Gay Raptor.

REPORT: FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ A RPONSE TO A GAY SLUR

Gallery: Ctom 'Very Gay' Ford Ranger Raptor Regnizg the discrimatory tone of the ment, the tomaker rpond wh an over-the-top image of a rabow Ranger to make the pany's posn very clear. Addnally, Ford's GLOBE (Gay, Lbian, or Bisexual Employe) work celebrat s 25th anniversary this year, supportg LGBTQ+ employe and diversy the workplace. The Very Gay Raptor will be on display Cologne through Augt 28 and partake the annual ColognePri 2021 para on Sunday.

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.

FORD'S VERY GAY RAPTOR READY FOR GOODWOOD ACTN

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:. 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. “Created 2021, ‘Very Gay Raptor’ was born rponse to a negative ment on social media, wh Ford renrg s most bada** nameplate sparklg gold adorned wh rabow graphics, ” the news release said. ✨? #VeryGayRaptor.

Footage of the “Very Gay Raptor” also featur promently a rep of Ford’s numero petn rs and productn specials at Goodwood last year:. Whereas prevly an ostentatly woke mpaign specifilly targetg nsumer products that are cidly unwoke would fly unr the radar for most people, the “Very Gay Raptor” sudnly seems like a “Very Bad Ia” — particularly for a pany stgglg other areas at prent that has to sell the Ford Ranger Raptor to a mostly male, generally nservative clientele that’s not nsirg a sendhand Nissan Leaf the Raptor’s stead.

FORD VERY GAY RANGER RAPTOR MAK COLORFUL DEBUT AT GOODWOOD

(Before Mulvaney), ’ll be cur to see what Ford do wh the “Very Gay Raptor” and what kd of publicy gets over the next few months. Advertisg, Automobile, Boytt, bs and pani, Culture, Homosexual Agenda, inty polics, LGBT, social media, Transgenr, Tweet, vio, wokens. Very few people know that the vio was released rponse to a homophobic ment.

The mercial qutn is tled “Ford’s Very Gay Raptor Ref ‘Tough’ for a New Generatn. The ptn of the vio suggts Ford lled out a homophobic rponse to a Ranger Raptor vio last year by creatg the real-life “Very Gay Raptor. Y, the Ford mercial wh the Very Gay Raptor is, fact, real and was created to show support for the LGBT muny.

AMID THE BUD LIGHT-DYLAN MULVANEY BACKLASH, FORD’S ‘VERY GAY’ TCKS HAVE RURFACED

In an article on Ford’s webse dated June 21, 2022, has been stated that the Very Gay Raptor will be “aimed at drivg out discrimatn the tomotive dtry, and beyond. On May 17, Ford’s ad for s Very Gay Raptor went viral as people started tweetg wh the tags: “How to Dtroy 120 Years of Amerin History 1 Mute…”. As a proud F-150 owner, I have never met anyone who driv one who's gay.

FACT OR FICTN: 2023 RAPTOR OFFERED RABOW LOR THEME LLED VERY GAY RAPTOR?

Ford is not the first victim of this strange homophobic phenomenon; don’t look like the last on their h list.

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FORD GERMANY UNVEILS ‘VERY GAY’ TCK, PATED GLTER GOLD AND RABOW LORS, EPIC RPONSE TO HOMOPHOB

One ter menter lled Ford Germany’s Ranger Raptor lor ‘very gay’ and the pany rpond the bt way. The Very Gay Raptor is a Ranger Raptor sportg Pri lors and a sparkly gold ’s Ranger Raptor Wants Its Midsize Off-Roadg Crown BackOffEnglishFord’s European arm recently lnched the Ranger Raptor Special Edn a promo showg the pickup rippg right to an old-school wtern movie plot.

But one menter took issue wh the tck’s Performance Blue lor, llg ‘very gay’ and tellg Ford to pat the tck yellow and ed this opportuny and Christopher Street Day Cologne, Germany, to make a statement wh a Ranger Raptor: Christopher Street Day is an LGBTQIA+ event that tak place Germany and across Europe. If you’ve ventured onto social media the past week or two, you might have e across Ford’s Very Gay Raptor. This appears to be how Ford’s Very Gay Raptor entered the fold, spe beg nearly two years old and troduced Europe.

More: Ford Is Brgg A New, “Very Gay” Raptor To Goodwood.

FORD BUILDS 'VERY GAY' RANGER RAPTOR RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC MENT

” Another noted the Very Gay Raptor “would go real good wh a uple s of Bud Light.

FORD UNVEILED A 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO A HOMOPHOBIC COMMENTER

However, those threateng to buy om other tomakers won’t fd many optns as numero brands have spoken up support of the gay muny. A portmante for “celebry lbian, ” “celbian” emerged as Sapphic slang at least as early as the late 1990s, but beme ubiquo across the queer cyberverse the 2010s as gay women ma maps of celbian relatnships both mored and real.

“VERY GAY RAPTOR” BUILT BY FORD

Today social media is rife wh fervid fans who believe their favore sger or actrs is secretly queer and datg another (sometim gay and out, sometim straight and imaged closeted) celebry who jt happens to be her bt iend. This practice rembl wrg fan fictn, but the speculative story l star your current fav stead of fictnal and other mored celbian upl are fairy tal for gay women raised on straight on; fabl where two people who appear to be patriarchy’s pups are actually manipulatg the men wh money, choosg the girl over all the guys.

As Sports Keeda reported, “Ford’s ‘Very Gay’ Raptor adopted a gltery gold body adorned wh a wave of rabow nng om the ont si of the r to the back. The Pri-themed Raptor was rponse to a homophobic ment about a Ranger Raptor vio that was shared 2021. In rponse, one social media er lled the lor “very gay.