I thought I would bring this topic back up because I have now had the pleasure of going offroading in an F-150 Raptor.
This past weekend I went to Glamis for some post Thanksgiving dirtbiking and offroading. For those of you who don't know what Glamis is, imagine miles and miles and miles of the biggest sand dunes you can possibly imagine. If you stand in the middle of Glamis, you can't see anything but sand and dunes and offroad toys. This is also one of the biggest offroad areas in Southern California and is easily the most popular in the world during Thanksgiving. Hundreds of thousands of people show up with all different types of toys, dirtbikes, quads, trucks, buggies, monster trucks...You name it!
This year I took my truck and dirtbike out there and we met up with some friends of ours. One of them surprised us all with a brand new (2 day old) F150 Raptor. Black exterior, black leather interior, fully loaded, beautiful truck! It still had that new car smell. So, we did the only thing a bunch of guys would do. We loaded up the truck and headed out to the dunes!!!
I was extremely impressed with this truck. It handled everything very well and we never once bottomed out or had a jarring moment. We were keeping up with my other friend in his 2001 long travel F-150 that cycles 19 inches of wheel travel pretty easily. Windows up, A/C on, Navigation trying to find the road...It was awesome!
I am seriously considering trading in my 07 Tundra now!
In my opinion the only downside to this truck is the lack of power. I can't wait to see what the new 6.2 liter engine offers. Everything else about it was very impressive and really blew me away.
To Ford :thumbsup:thumbsup
