Ford's 'Very Gay' Ranger Raptor Is A Rponse To Onle Trolls

Contents:

• IS THE FORD 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK REAL?
• FORD'S VERY GAY RAPTOR READY FOR GOODWOOD ACTN
• AMID THE BUD LIGHT-DYLAN MULVANEY BACKLASH, FORD’S ‘VERY GAY’ TCKS HAVE RURFACED
• FORD CREATED A RABOW 'VERY GAY' RANGER RAPTOR IN RPONSE TO AN ONLE TROLL
• FORD VERY GAY RAPTOR BOYTTED FOR BEG ‘WOKE,’ LGBTQ-IENDLY TCKS
• FORD VERY GAY RANGER RAPTOR MAK COLORFUL DEBUT AT GOODWOOD
• IN RPONSE TO A HATEFUL COMMENT, FORD ROLLS OUT ‘THE VERY GAY RAPTOR’

IS THE FORD 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK REAL?

Ford created a tck lled the "Very Gay Raptor. ContextThe "Very Gay Raptor" is a real tck created by Ford 2021. 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.

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.

FORD'S VERY GAY RAPTOR READY FOR GOODWOOD ACTN

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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.

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

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.

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

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?

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FORD VERY GAY RAPTOR BOYTTED FOR BEG ‘WOKE,’ LGBTQ-IENDLY TCKS

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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?

FORD VERY GAY RANGER RAPTOR MAK COLORFUL DEBUT AT GOODWOOD

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

IN RPONSE TO A HATEFUL COMMENT, FORD ROLLS OUT ‘THE 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.

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.