Back in 2023, I tested one of the coolest trucks to roll a fat burnout out of Detroit. It was the Ford F-150 FP700, a 50-state-legal, warrantied package that takes a work truck and cranks up the taps to 700 ravenous horses. The FP700 was gloriously silly, with its eagerness to convert rubber into smoke and cross the entirety of Woodward Ave. in a single sweeping drift. If work trucks aren’t your vibe, Ford Performance is now very happy to turn your F-150 Lobo street truck into the muscle truck it should have been from the start.
Last summer, Ford thought it was giving truck buyers what they wanted when it launched the F-150 Lobo in the United States. The Lobo name has been around for a while in Mexico, and denoted F-150s with higher trim levels than work trucks. When Ford brought the Lobo name to America, it was bestowed upon a new sport truck. Until recently, a Ford sport truck could be expected to be called a Lightning, but that was most recently used on Ford’s electric F-150. Now, the electric Lightning is dead, but the Lobo lives on.
Unfortunately, the Lobo might not go far enough if you’re into street trucks. The F-150 Lobo is a package applied to an F-150 STX SuperCrew 4×4 for $59,995. The Lobo is mostly an appearance package, offering a two-inch rear suspension drop, 22-inch wheels, blacked-out everything, and a body kit. Power comes from a 5.0-liter Coyote V8 making 400 horsepower and 410 lb-ft of torque. The Lobo looks great, but as a street truck, it’s sort of disappointing. It’s not really low to the ground, doesn’t have any more power than stock, and can’t even be had with fewer than four doors or rear-wheel drive.
Ford Performance is rectifying one of those issues with horsepower, a lot of it. For an additional $10,250, you can now add a 3.0-liter Whipple supercharger kit to your Lobo, which will push output to a comical 700 horsepower and 590 lb-ft of torque. The best part? You get a warranty!
Fast Fords
This supercharger kit is not anything new; Ford Performance has served up supercharger power to F-150 owners since 2021. The only requirement is that your truck is a 2021 or newer fourteenth-generation model, and it has a 5.0-liter Coyote V8. Ford is more than happy to slap the supercharger onto anything from the used F-150 sitting in your driveway right now to a brand-new regular cab two-wheel-drive F-150 XL with the Coyote V8. It was cheap horsepower, too. 700 horsepower used to be the realm of impossibly expensive supercars; now you can get it in a work truck for $10,250.
Ford has had plenty of fun with this supercharger. In 2023, Ford announced the FP700 package, which paired the supercharger with some decals and sporty wheels for $12,350. A 2023 Ford F-150 XL with the Coyote V8 was as cheap as $37,925. Add in the FP700 package, and you now have a work truck street truck for $50,275.
Of course, the Whipple supercharger isn’t the only way to get your F-150 with 700 horsepower. Ford is more than happy to sell you a F-150 Raptor R, which has 720 HP and 640 lb-ft of torque from its 5.2-liter supercharged V8. I have tested that truck, and my review of it is still coming! I just adore how pickup truck fans have so many ways to get intoxicating power.
Something I’ve long adored about the Ford Performance supercharger package is that Ford treats it like a factory job. The setup comes with warranties for three years or 36,000 miles if the parts are installed by a Ford dealer or an ASE-certified technician. Ford also says it’s been engineered to meet its 100,000-mile durability standards. So, you shouldn’t need to worry about blowing up your F-150 with the addition of a blower.
When applied to a model year 2021 to model year 2025 truck, it’s even 50-state emissions legal. Apparently, the kit is not California-legal when applied to a model year 2026 truck. Your rig will even take 91 octane pump gas. So, it’ll be just like you bought your truck with a supercharger. When you buy the kit, you get the blower, an intercooler, an exclusive Ford Performance calibration, and a Tomahawk calibration tool in the package. Ford notes that the kit doesn’t change your electronically limited top speed.
In 2023, I tested a 2022 Ford F-150 XLT 4×2 with a short bed, a 122-inch wheelbase, and a regular cab with the Whipple supercharger. That weekend with that truck was so fun that the FP700 became one of my all-time dream trucks. I might want one even more than a Dodge Ram SRT-10. Yes, I even like the FP700 more than the Raptor R.
If I just breathed on the skinny pedal the wrong way, the truck would light its rear tires in such a hilarious manner. All that the truck wanted to do was infinite drifts, burnouts, and stoplight drags. I bet if you gave it a sporty suspension, it would have the handling to match the power. The FP700 felt like the true spiritual successor to the Ford SVT F-150 Lightning of old.
Cheap-Ish Speed
If you’re a truck person, the cheapest route to this temptress of power is to get a 2026 F-150 XL 4×2 with zero options. The V8 comes standard for a price of $42,820 after a painful $2,795 destination charge and a $695 acquisition fee. Throw on the $10,250 supercharger kit, and you’re at $53,070 before extra costs for your 700 HP work truck with steel wheels, a bench seat, and a rubberized floor. Buy your truck used, and you can save even more.
Weirdly, contributor Steve Balistreri noted that the supercharger kit was available for the Lobo when it launched last year. However, Ford was sort of quiet about that until last week, when it published a press release stating that you could add the supercharger to your Lobo. Ford also says that you can bolt this Whipple onto your Ford Mustang GT or Dark Horse for up to 810 HP and 615 lb-ft of twist when equipped with an active valve exhaust. The output is a mere 800 HP with a standard exhaust.
It’s great to know that the folks from Dearborn remain as crazy as ever. Frankly, it’s amazing how many different ways Ford will give you 700 horsepower or more without committing to something like a Raptor R or a Mustang GTD. Nothing is stopping you from putting this on the beat-up 2021 that you drive to the worksite. Now, if you want or have a Lobo, you can equip it with the power to match its looks, and keep your warranty!
Top graphic image:
I’m glad it exists, we need something besides another gray crossover.
Here I was optimistic that this was going to be in the Maverick Lobo.
Less interested, now.
Hoe about you sell me an affordable plug in vehicle that the Chinese don’t laugh at when they take it apart?
A street struck should not have such massive gaps between the wheel and fenders.
Exactly. I think the FP700 would pull off the street truck look with a 2/4 drop, but that Lobo needs a lot more to even begin pretending to be a sport truck.