There’s a new , and it’s getting a V6 as standard. That’s the same deal as the current generation. The difference is that the new Raptor will also get a Raptor R model that comes with a V8, like the original. This had me wondering: Did Ford switch up the Raptor’s engine because the six-cylinder was a dud?

The tricky thing here is that Ford does not break out any F-Series models from F-Series sales. Every year we hear about how the F-Series is “America’s favorite truck” and that it tops sales charts, but we don’t know how many of those were F-450s as opposed to F-250s, or what kinds of F-150s everyone is buying.

This is, annoyingly, standard practice in the more-is-more world of trucks. GM does the same lumping all Chevy Silverados together from the smallest single cab up to the biggest 3500 and 6500HDs, as .

Standard practice, yes. Annoying, also yes. I had no good way of finding out how the second-generation Raptor, the one with the EcoBoost V6, compared to the first-generation Raptor, the one with the standard V8. All I had to go on was . It gave no hard numbers, just general percentages of Raptor sales one year versus another. What I had to do was reach out to Ford.

And Ford gave me some of what I was looking for!

Mike Levine of Ford PR quickly responded to my request for hard or soft numbers on first- versus second-generation Raptor sales:

We don’t separate F-150 Raptor sales out.

Second-gen Raptor sold more than first.

I asked if there were any percentages handy. No dice:

No. Sorry. We do not.

I wish that I had more concrete information on Raptor sales, in terms of V6 vs V8, or in terms of how big of a chunk the Raptor makes up of all F-Series sales. But I do know that the V6 doesn’t seem to have hurt the Raptor.

It sounds like the upcoming Raptor R is more of a limited-edition fan service kind of deal than an attempt to patch an image problem for sales. Honestly, I’m glad. America deserves more than people counting cylinders.