My Unadulterated Raptor R Review

Vol. 22

One of the fun things about being a writer is that your words don’t always reach the page as you wrote them. My computer’s acting up this morning, I’m moving a bunch of old files around to try and fix that, and came across this first draft of my Raptor R review from last year. Probably motivated by my own ego, I figured it might be worth sharing.

I just drove the fastest internal combust engine off-road truck that will ever be sold in a showroom. How was it? In a word: underwhelming. That is not a ding on Ford. Packing 700 horsepower into the Raptor R, and doing it so seamlessly that the vehicle never feels like it’s getting out of control is an incredible achievement. No, the reason I’m underwhelmed isn't through any problem or fault with the vehicle itself, it’s simply due to the fact that the world has moved on. There’s already something faster, and more exciting out there. It just isn’t powered by dead dinosaurs.