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RAPTOR!!!

Vaughn Gittin Jr. takes flight in the Ford F-150 SVT Raptor [w/video]

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By now, news that the Ford F150 SVT Raptor can get you over the river and through the woods to grandma's house is older than the dirt splattered down the pickup's side. Still, that doesn't mean that we're above taking a second to watch Vaughn Gittin Jr. put the FoMoCo beast through its paces. As you may recall, Gittin Jr. is the talented hellion who took the 2010 Formula Drift title, so the man knows a thing or two about stretching a vehicle to its limits and beyond.

Gittin Jr. teamed up with the crew from Wrecked Magazine to bash through the sand outside of Las Vegas when someone threw open the gates to the local CORR track. That's when things got really interesting. The drift guru set to vaulting the pickup to ever loftier heights. At one point, re-entry causes the Raptor's frame to flex enough to cause the tail gate to pop open on contact with terra firma – impressive given what this bruiser was engineered to withstand
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http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/01/vaughn-gittin-jr-takes-flight-in-the-ford-f150-svt-raptor-w-v/
 
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I want one of those so bad!!
 
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Videos of vehicles driving should not be allowed to have music in them. I actually had a dream about this last night. I just want to watch the car and hear the beautiful noises it makes.
 
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Just to play devils advocate...

I wonder how the current offerings from Toyota, Nissan, Dodge and GM would fare if the same things were done with those that has been done with the new Ford.

I'm willing to gamble that the others would probably manage just as well. But, Ford seems to have a better PR department and has used it well.
 
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Well, at least they were willing to do something and release it to the public. Everybody else releases a SEMA concept and hopes the aftermarket will be appealing enough to do the marketing for them.

Toyota, on the other hand, celebrates the seventh model year of an otherwise unchanged model by offering it in a new color. Yay.
 
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OmniFocus said:
Toyota, on the other hand, celebrates the seventh model year of an otherwise unchanged model by offering it in a new color. Yay.
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It's funny how the Japanese companies have gotten to become so complacent with mediocrity, sounds like American car companies of the mid-late 90s :lol:
 
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Dukman said:
Just to play devils advocate...

I wonder how the current offerings from Toyota, Nissan, Dodge and GM would fare if the same things were done with those that has been done with the new Ford.

I'm willing to gamble that the others would probably manage just as well. But, Ford seems to have a better PR department and has used it well.
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I would agree this was all PR IF the other companies were doing this. Since they are not offering this type of upgrade from the factory, we'll never know.

I've seen 7 or 8 of these on the interstates around my house. Given the price and fuel prices, I figured I would never see one. Seems like they have a winner on their hands.
 
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Dukman said:
Just to play devils advocate...

I wonder how the current offerings from Toyota, Nissan, Dodge and GM would fare if the same things were done with those that has been done with the new Ford.

I'm willing to gamble that the others would probably manage just as well. But, Ford seems to have a better PR department and has used it well.
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I'd bet not.

The Raptor has had some serious off road R/D done to it. It is a serious off road truck right off the show floor.
 
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I would like to pick up a used one in a few years too, but I wonder, won't they be more trashed than a teenage owned SRT-4?
 
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