Enjoying this thread, and I’m huge raptor fan overall. However, someone said it best when another member said Ram copied the Raptor. I believe this not to be true overall.
Ram did the 5 link first. Ram had the best interior first (and still is just inches ahead of Fords new interior).
But to copy is expected to some degree. How do you come out with something completely different when they are suppose to compete with each other?
Take in consideration Ford re-releasing the Bronco. That screams Wrangler. No one on the wrangler forums is pointing their fingers at Ford and saying copy-cat. They are applauding the Ford team for upping the game on Jeep.
If there was no raptor, there wouldn’t be a TRX. And if there was no TRX, there would be no Raptor R.
and for those who mention Ram is garbage, stop basing it off of old experience. The recall rate on these trucks since 2019 is nearly none. Some safety recalls and TSB’s but nothing like before. Since they spun off into their own, they have been a ton better.
Ford service is leaps and bounds better, but sales and ops not so much. No one took me seriously or gave me the time of day at 7 Ford dealerships when I inquired about the Gen 3. Only 1 called me back to ask if I wanted to place an order, but at $7k over msrp and even then they couldn’t concrete one of their allocations, stating whoever paid the most over MSRP got their 4 allocations.
3 of 4 Ram dealers called me and helped me right away with getting an order in.
Different time we live in, but with the shortage of new vehicles and time sales guys have on their hands right now, you figure a dealer would do anything to get a sale.
