Earlier this year, some bold thieves made off with a handful of Ford F-150 Raptor pickups that were being stored at a lot in Michigan. Ten total pickups went missing, each valued at over $100,000, and though several were recovered, local police indicated that the theft was the work of an organized group. A similar theft event struck just last week when several 2024 Ford F-150 Raptor units were nicked from the Ford Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan. They were later found abandoned in a ditch.
A video posted to the city of Dearborn’s Instagram account shows the sorry state of the stolen F-150 Raptors after their would-be thieves ditched them. There’s at least one 2024 Ford F-150 Raptor R in the mix, and it didn’t make it very far. Its driver left it parked on an embankment, lilting to the side like a sinking ship, while the others were left where they landed in a ditch, some nosed hard into surrounding trees.
Of course, there’s no way to what happened for sure, but it certainly looks like the misguided thieves attempted to clear the grassy ditch, perhaps under cover of darkness, and simply misjudged its depth and their ability to handle it. The pack might have driven through the ditch at high speed, crashing into trees and stranding the pickups in the process.
Some comments in the post poke fun at the incident, pondering if the drivers knew how to engage the four-wheel-drive in the tough off-road pickups, which should’ve cleared the ditch without breaking a sweat.
This isn’t the first time something like this has happened. The Ford F-150 line was named as one of the most stolen vehicle of 2023, and apparently, that extends to units parked on FoMoCo-owned storage lots. The Blue Oval had its hands full with a string of thefts from Dearborn last year, and a Ford F-150 Raptor R was ripped off from the same site in late 2022.
A rather bold claim, indeed.
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You wonder how something like this can happen. Did Ford lay off it's in-house security to save a few bucks?
Now imagine if they had manual transmissions.
If I was a security guard on the site, I would shoot them.
Why do we keep hearing stories like this from Ford assembly plants. How can management even live with themselves after allowing this nonsense to go on and on and on. Time for some terminations?
Why aren’t these vehicles put into limp mode at the factory????? This would limit the vehicle’s speed and range. Also only put 2 gallons of gas in the tank. Dealers can undo limp mode and fill up the tank.
How about the death sentence for anyone caught in a major theft ring. I think that would stop thefts for sure!
KIA Boys would instantly disappear.
I guess Ford has not heard of a new idea, it’s called delivery mode, when build the car cannot go over a set MPH to avoid theft, Porsche, Audi, BMW, ect have heard of it. It’s only about 20 years old you cannot expect Ford to have that cutting edge technology in there vehicles.
There is this new technology, it’s called delivery mode, when activated the car is cannot go over a certain MPH to stop theft, Porsche, Audi, VW, BMW, ect all have it. It about 15 years old so it might be to cutting edge for Ford.