Top designer of Ford F-150 Raptor gets ideas from fighter jets, Hollywood
A 2021 F-150 Raptor clay model is being worked on by exterior designer Tom Liu, right, and clay modeler Josh Brooker at the Ford Product Development Center in 2019 in Dearborn, Mich. (Ford Motor Co./TNS)
Tom Liu, lead exterior designer for the new 2021 Ford F-150 Raptor, at the design studio in Livonia, Mich., in late January. (Ford Motor Co./TNS)
Sketch of the 2021 Ford F-150 Raptor by exterior designer Tom Liu. (Ford Motor Co./TNS)
A sketch of the 2021 Ford F-150 Raptor by exterior designer Tom Liu.
2021 Ford F-150 Raptor sketches by exterior designer Tom Liu.
Top designer of Ford F-150 Raptor gets ideas from fighter jets, Hollywood
By Phoebe Wall Howard - Detroit Free Press
A 2021 F-150 Raptor clay model is being worked on by exterior designer Tom Liu, right, and clay modeler Josh Brooker at the Ford Product Development Center in 2019 in Dearborn.
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DETROIT Tom Liu is the lead designer for a truck that can fly through the air.
It’s so tough it can leap tall buildings in a single bound.
Well, maybe really short buildings.
Liu finds his inspiration from the comic book film star “Iron Man” and other science fiction movies and fighter jets.