In what reality is this true? Someone help me out here...
have you been to Raptor Assault yet? you know they still have Gen 1 Raptors there, that the staff use, right? You know they keep up or leave the gen 2 depending on the driver, right?
The DNA of the trucks is the same, the gen2 has made evolutionary improvements in a lot of categories but these are not different species here you are talking about.
‘hero is right, this had nothing to do with gen 1/ gen 2 and didn’t need to.
The closest market analogy the Gen 2 market has is ... the Gen 1, because there is no other manufacturer directly competing with the Raptor right now. So drawing an analogy to the gen1 is legit if for no other reason than a valuable data point. Sure, the market is newer, people can use the internet better to find better deals, but the market is artificially inflated by several forces.
I do agree with X’ that Ford took the Rap upscale and as a result bought a lot of poseurs, status symbol, and Euro-apologist buyers into the fold. As a result, we have a contingent of owners with more cash than sense buying without negotiating a bit, and in some cases bidding to have the Rap. Ok, it’s a free market, but do ya’ll mind if I juxtapose? [ admit it, at least some of you thought I couldn’t spell juxtapose ]
great.
so, back in the days of my pimply faced, hot rod magazine reading youth, we had the 5.0 LX Mustang, Grand National, IROC and Trans Ams. The 5 speed, 302 LX Mustang could be had for about $12k with good negotiating skills, which was - much to the chagrin of many drivers, well within reach of an enlisted E-3 or above in service, or high school graduate with a moderately good job and some financial sense. The rest were more expensive and didn’t deliver any significant more bang for the buck and the LX 5.0 gained a substantial cult following. It put power into the hands of the driving public if they wanted it. Multiple drivers were doing legit, low 13 second 1/4 miles at MIR in southern MD with only a few hundred dollars in mods. Sure, it was basically a ’70’s Fairmont unibody with a big v8 and different body panels but... None of us cared! I can’t count the number of indiscriminate Mustang drivers I encountered back then, there were too many to count.
You know what though?
When the better, SN95 replaced the Fox, when the Modular replaced the Windsor, the 32valves came along, there was none of this kind of partisan, mental ************ about who had the better car, or how vastly superior it was. For all the juvenile, pimply faced, barely holding on to their license, immature, on high risk insurance attitude, we respected the other owners, the same as we would have respected someone who pulled into the pits for a run in a 428SCJ or a 289 convertible.
Here we are, yet again, pissing on the gen 1 guys.
Perhaps the discussion point was made inarticulately, or misspoken but keep in mind that a vast majority of communication is non-verbal and words on the internet don’t convey thought process or emotion. You might be thinking - ‘hah! I’ll bust 2xA ron’s chops’ while he’s reading your response, loading up AK mags and looking up your particulars. You just don’t really know how your words might come across ( I picked Aaron at random, for all I know he’s one of those AR shooting range ninjas ).
Done juxtaposin’. Ya’ll can get back to the flaming.
