It's not one thing, it's a bunch of different things I dislike. In no particular order.
1. Hate the new grill, looks cartoonish and the front camera makes it look like it has a tiny **** hanging off of it.
2. Don't like the aluminum, on a sports car great, on a truck I'm going to beat on, too expensive to repair and I don't know how to work with aluminum.
3. the squarish sharp looking fenders bother me, it's like the ford equivalent to the gm square wheel wells.
4. The motor, it may be stupid but I want a big American v8 in an American truck.
5. The motor, too many working parts to fail on a tt setup.
6. The transmission, with what I've seen of fords shift logic I feel like 10 speeds can only make it worse. Again more working parts to fail
7. All these new driving modes just seem like fancy do dads and I imagine will come with all sorts of new nannies.
8. Stop start is dumb.
9. Sounds like shit.
10. Just generally don't like it's appearance.
I'll stop with 10 but I'm sure if I really thought about it I could come up with a couple dozen.
I do like the interior though.
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I'm pretty sure you can come up with bunch of random shit that has little influence.
1.) Get an aftermarket grill, and the best part is you don't need to add the front camera if you don't like it... although it might be part of a package.
2.) yeah the aluminum is more expensive but if your doing that much damage all the time, maybe you should work on you off road driving to prevent that.
3.) have you looked at the fenders they are almost exactly the same.
4.) the motor in an American truck has never been about the size or the cylinders it has. it has always be about how much power you can produce out of the engine. V8's have always been sought after because it was the best way to produce raw power in the 20th century. and check out the ecoboost mustang, its quickly becoming popular.
5.) yes it has more moving parts but if they came out with a tt V8. you wouldn't say a thing about it. and if you decided to put a supercharger on a V8 your looking at about the same amount of moving parts. by the way if you have to fill up less just 2-3 mpg less that means more time having fun, about 100 miles with the 32gal tank.
6.) the transmission, Greg Foutz already said the 10 speed was bad ass, but your right you should just stick with the transmission that you and several others complain about.
7.) driving modes "ARE NOT NEW" every sport car to eco car has had a selection of driving modes. and if you go back into the early 90 and 2000 its basically a tuner that gives you more control of how you truck works.
8.) Stop/ Start is irrelevant. the only time it will activate is when your at a stop sign or traffic light in driving mode and on top of that you can shut it off and never turn it back on.
9.)mod the exhaust, I would place a bet with you that there will be an exhaust that is going to make it sound to your liking. Roush, Shelby, etc...
10.) and you can always do something to change the appearance of any truck. ill place a bet on that too.
you know better yet don't ever get a 2017+ Raptor the fewer people that order it the fast it is to get and lower the price.
in truth I would just settle for you to stop bad mouthing it in any and very discussion I see. there on par there are two things that give the new raptor the small advantage one the interior and second the new purpose built frame. each of them have there pros and cons.
trust me. this community need this truck to succeed even you do. because is 15 plus years when most gen 1 and ran into the ground and you cant find them and they stop producing raptor because it does not sell have fun building a base f150 from the ground up.
everything can be debated. take it or leave it. let people be excided for the truck. and stop ripping down everyone that has an option.
the more issues they find on the track the few issues people will find.
