SVT Raptor...bringing out the worst in other people...

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Reptar

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Anybody notice this? So many haters out there.

So far I've had one tell me how horrible the truck is for offroading, oh those BFG's are no good for mud bogging (he's got a bronco with smaller tires and basically passenger car tires on it). Another person tell me wow those tow hooks are so wimpy and undersized (he drives a honda ridgeline!). And another person I merged in front of them, because I was already 3/4 truck length in front of them in the right lane and the road merged 2:1, and I see them screaming "azzhole" in my sideview. Chillax! They followed me allllllll the way to where I work. I continued past my normal spot, and go trotting down a backroad where their toy box couldn't continue, but a bright blue raptor stands out like a sore thumb, ain't hard for them to spot it again if they've got malicious intentions.

Seriously wtf is with the jealousy? The Raptor has gotten just as much looks as my HD trucks when they were new as far as turning heads, but man I don't remember this much hate. The HD truck was the 1st vehicle to come with 20's all around back in 2000, but I remember my uncle swearing up and down the 20" chrome rims were no big deal, his CR-V had the option for 20's but he decided he liked the stamped steel 15's better. LOL yeah right! He was asking where my picnic table was because his fancy CR-V had one that popped out of the back. And I had a neighbor who asked why we only got the 150 hp version of the HD truck, and not the 1500 hp like his dakota. I look at him like "serously?" and no kidding, he was dead serious, he thought F-150 meant 150 hp, F-250 meant 250 hp, and Dakota 1500 meant 1,500 hp, etc. :ROFLJest:

I may drive my 27 year old hooptie the rest of this week. But heck even that gets nasty looks from people of "damnit this old POS is pulling out in front of me?" even though it's got a 5.8L '94 L engine and fuel injection under the hood. :Jedi:
 

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Anybody notice this? So many haters out there.

So far I've had one tell me how horrible the truck is for offroading, oh those BFG's are no good for mud bogging (he's got a bronco with smaller tires and basically passenger car tires on it). Another person tell me wow those tow hooks are so wimpy and undersized (he drives a honda ridgeline!). And another person I merged in front of them, because I was already 3/4 truck length in front of them in the right lane and the road merged 2:1, and I see them screaming "azzhole" in my sideview. Chillax! They followed me allllllll the way to where I work. I continued past my normal spot, and go trotting down a backroad where their toy box couldn't continue, but a bright blue raptor stands out like a sore thumb, ain't hard for them to spot it again if they've got malicious intentions.

Seriously wtf is with the jealousy? The Raptor has gotten just as much looks as my HD trucks when they were new as far as turning heads, but man I don't remember this much hate. The HD truck was the 1st vehicle to come with 20's all around back in 2000, but I remember my uncle swearing up and down the 20" chrome rims were no big deal, his CR-V had the option for 20's but he decided he liked the stamped steel 15's better. LOL yeah right! He was asking where my picnic table was because his fancy CR-V had one that popped out of the back. And I had a neighbor who asked why we only got the 150 hp version of the HD truck, and not the 1500 hp like his dakota. I look at him like "serously?" and no kidding, he was dead serious, he thought F-150 meant 150 hp, F-250 meant 250 hp, and Dakota 1500 meant 1,500 hp, etc. :ROFLJest:

I may drive my 27 year old hooptie the rest of this week. But heck even that gets nasty looks from people of "damnit this old POS is pulling out in front of me?" even though it's got a 5.8L '94 L engine and fuel injection under the hood. :Jedi:

**** 'em. The level of ignorance of the "Average Joe" out there is mind boggling! Functionally illiterate, slack jawed mouth breathers are the rule, not the exception. Just ignore them, unless they threaten you. Then you must eliminate the threat. have a great week! :birgits_tiredcoffee
 

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Exactly, I keep getting people asking me "if I have the loud button" or "you spent $70,000 on an f150"

Just because they saw it on top gear.. Damn you Tanner!


-Greg
 
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Must be you. Outside the occasional hillbilly who wants to race me down the street, I don't get ****** with.
 

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Reptar, I moved from Jersey 8 years ago to PA and it's like night and day. I go to the shore about 40 weekends per year to visit friends and fish, and every time I get pissed from so many schmucks on the roads over there! Believe me there is a difference I lived there for 30 years and where I live now it's like being in a different country! And I've run into those road rage azzholes 10-1 in NJ. Good luck, maybe we will meet up one day.
 

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No one has ever said anything bad about the truck to me... No one has cut me off or flipped me the bird... All I get, is people stopped at lights or at the store and ask me about the truck and tell me how cool it is..
 

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Exactly, I keep getting people asking me "if I have the loud button" or "you spent $70,000 on an f150"

Just because they saw it on top gear.. Damn you Tanner!


-Greg

Haven't had anyone hatin' on the truck, but did have a co-worker insist that I had a "loud button" and that I needed to look at the manual to figure out where it was.
 
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lol I wouldn't be surprised. Although I lived in Philly for 5 years and was fed up with driving in the city, compared to that NJ drivers are laid back lol.

This guy was having a spaz attack though. 2 lanes merging into 1 well down the road past the intersection. I was far enough in front of him I could easily see him in my mirror starting to flip out in his car. If you want to spaz out like that, just step on the pedal and get out of your own friggin way. 2 other cars passed him and merged over before I did. What's the big deal to get your ******* in a ***? Different if one of us swerved over and cut him off, but because his 90 hp go-kart couldn't accelerate faster than what my truck went in idle? LOL Give me a break. It's called a MERGE lane for a reason, not a Yield-to-slower-drivers-in-the-left-lane lane. He didn't even need to touch his brakes till I saw him spazzing in his car and brake checked him to GIVE him a reason to spaz out for lol.
 
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