In the beginning of all this I decided I wanted a Raptor. Did all my research and watched every video on YouTube . Kept using the Ford website to keep building my truck to get it exactly the way I wanted it over and over again.
Then I did something I never do when I know I really want something, I decided that it was too much money.
So one day took a ride with the wife and drove to a Dodge dealership. Took a test drive in a Ram 1500 with all the bells and whistles and thought okay, this is a nice truck. Told the salesperson to let me think about and left.
On the way home while at a red light my wife says hey, there is a ford dealership, why don't we go there and look anyway, I say ok, good idea. Salesman takes us over to the only Raptor they had on the lot, a used 2010 scab. As soon as we walk up to it the wife says something I never thought she would say: " Oh my God, you should get a Raptor" !!! That's was it for me! She was absolutely right!!
Went to a different dealership because that one sucked and ordered a brand new 2013 and have been happy about that decision ever since.