********! When I bought my 22 Raptor my wife was driving a nice 22 Lariat F150. I'll give you the parking being easier, but the rest of your comparison,"it feels just as fast" and"much more nimble on the pavement"? I call ******** on that. Once my wife started driving my Raptor, she didn't want to drive her Lariat anymore. I had to buy her a Raptor to get mine back. Even my wife can tell the difference, and she only has hers off the pavement maybe 5% of the time. Being able to change to sport mode to slam through the mountain passes, and put it sand mode to drive on the beach at high tide are a bonus to the "best driving truck she's ever had". I punish my Raptor, so there's no comparison to me. I don't think of F150s as capable of much "truck stuff", but I have 2 F350s as a comparison. ....I've had zero issues with either Raptor, either F350, my Bronco Sasquatch, or my BRaptor.