Sold Taco, bought a Raptor

I like the Raptor and I basically like all performance vehicles. If I had $75K to drop and I never had to park it ... I would get one in a heartbeat.

My problem is finding a good place to park (especially in a parking garage) with my Tacoma now.

And it seems like they are making the parking places smaller too ...

Congrats on that beautiful truck.

PS ... I live part-time in Thailand and I drove a new Hilux, Nissan and Ranger (many new Rangers there now and they are big and nice too) and it was a cool truck.

I was told by several Thai Ford dealers ... that they are going to test a "Ranger Mini-Raptor" there next year too.

 

I get where my statement could be construed and meant a different way. I was mearely stating in my point of view though. But really, how many “normal” raptor owners are going to take a 60k truck and do serious off roading. Not many I presume. I know some will of coarse but the masses buy it for name and “prestige” only. I know many that have 50k trucks all decked out and have never even seen a dirt road.

 

I quoted you but the site (or internet) was being stupid. Read up one!

 

Am i this only one curious about guys buying trucks together?

 

I was a bit perplexed as well, guys going from nicely equipped new Tacos to Raptors as well also had me a bit perplexed but less so than 2 dudes walking into a dealer trading the same truck for 2 new same trucks.

 

#nohomomaybe

 

As long as the stealership is not near Broke Back Mountain, it should be ok. Please don’t quote me on that!

 

Boom.

 

#truckbros

 

For some reason, this is AWSOME though!

 

TRAITOR!!!

Sigh... I too want a new Raptor. But I'm keeping my 2000 4Runner Limited until I die! I will surely die before it does.

 

To be fair, I was comparing the Tundra against the F150 Lariat. The raptor is in it's own league.
But Toyota seems way behind the times with the Tundra relative to the competition:
- it requires a key in the ignition to start (even the top line)
- Back up camera is tiny.
- Less back passenger room than the F150
- It has a hump in the floor in the back. Wanted something flat for my dog.
- It gets 14 MPG. The F150 Lariat gets 20+. I'm averaging 16 with my raptor and I'm stomping on it A LOT.
- Overall the tech was weak compared to Ford
- Just seemed like a boring truck. I'm sure this is personal preference.

 

Ha! They're our best friends an they don't have kids (we do). He was in the market for a full sized truck as well and was leaning towards the Dodge Rebel. He came with me for "moral support" to buy mine. Once he took it for a test drive and saw how easy the dealer put my package together, he jumped on board. I asked the dealer and the rep if they ever sold 2 raptors, back to back, with the same rep. Apparently we set a new record!

 

Lightning blue is a sick color. I could have made that color work, magnetic gray, silver or Leadfoot Gray. My wife ruled out Blue since it was too bold. I wished I was able to get Cement in the taco, so went with Leadfoot. It was a very hard color to find in stock. Looks like they're not making it in 2019 either.

 

Idk how ur doing all that my boys raptor gets 8 mpg on a good day

 

Congrats! If only the Tundra looked like that!

 

Does anyone know why the tundra doesn't look like that or the Tacoma?!?!

 

Yep lightning blue is gone for 19 replaced with 2 new other blues. Reason my dad replaced his 14 with the 18 since he had to have lightning blue lol. I loved avalanche grey which had a one year run, last year. Nice choice with lead foot!

 

Congrats, I’ve been contemplating this but I can’t swallow the price tag

 

I’m sure it will look more Tacoma ish come 2020 when it’s updated. Even the 19 RAV4 has tacoma / 4Runner design cues.