{"id":35540,"date":"2026-01-18T13:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=35540"},"modified":"2026-01-18T13:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:18:18","slug":"ford-v-the-world-raptor-battles-for-dakar-rally-title-in-saudi-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/ford-v-the-world-raptor-battles-for-dakar-rally-title-in-saudi-desert","title":{"rendered":"Ford v The World: Raptor battles for Dakar Rally title in Saudi desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/01\/07\/PDTN\/88063387007-ford-dakar-2026-raptor-t-1-navigates-the-saudi-desert.jpg?width=660&amp;height=440&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"A Ford Raptor T1+ Ultimate navigates the brutal landscape of the Saudi desert.\" width=\"537\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Riyadh, Saudi Arabia<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 In 1966, France\u2019s 24 Hours of Le Mans put Ford on the map as one of the world\u2019s premier sports car manufacturers. Sixty years later, Ford is determined to make its mark again \u2014 this time as one of the world\u2019s premier off-road makers by taking on the world at the 14-day, 2026 Dakar Rally in the desert of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Ford v Ferrari meets Ford v Toyota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Japanese manufacturer, builder of the internationally-ubiquitous Hilux trucks, has dominated this race in recent years, just as Ferrari dominated Le Mans in the early 1960s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/sports\/motor\/2026\/01\/07\/ford-v-the-world-raptor-battles-for-dakar-rally-title-in-saudi-desert\/88062745007\/\"><em>Read full story here<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh, Saudi Arabia\u00a0\u2014 In 1966, France\u2019s 24 Hours of Le Mans put Ford on the map as one of the world\u2019s premier sports car manufacturers. Sixty years later, Ford is determined to make its mark again \u2014 this time as one of the world\u2019s premier off-road makers by taking on the world at the 14-day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35541,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35540\/revisions\/35541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}