![No Matter What Your Friends Keep Telling You, It’s A Raptor, Not A Trophy Truck [VIDEO]](https://bangshift.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rwp-jump-fail.jpg)
All of the classic ingredients are here: you have a dirt track that appears to be better suited for a motocross than it does for a truck, lined with people, and a couple of cameras filming the whole thing. The event they all are watching, “Rednecks With Paychecks”, is about to get a lot more exciting, because a Ford Raptor has appeared. Ford’s off-roader is a pretty stout truck, there’s no doubt about that, but it isn’t a purpose-built off-road racing truck and as such, the rate for something bad to happen is…well, let’s take another look at the name of the event, shall we?
To his credit, the driver of the Raptor takes a few laps around, testing out a good-sized tabletop jump. He makes a few aborted runs, presumably to see if he can hit the speed he’s hoping for. After a couple of passes the crowd starts to turn ugly, so for his final go at it he buries the pedal in the carpet and throws the truck into the sky. Unfortunately for the driver, physics aren’t to be ignored…what goes up, must come down. This is gonna hurt…
Click play below and see if you can guess just how much the repair bill is going to be!
EDIT: Blame my short memory, but we did find this truck a while ago. Here’s the front shot that shows just how effed this poor Raptor gets. Ford built a cool truck, but they didn’t build a street-legal Class 8 racer.
Every time I see some young kid with a “Raptor” I wonder if they’ve seen the vids showing them folding in half after a jump. Beyond my pay grade. 🙂
Too bad there are no after pictures of the Raptor. After it jumps and disappears behind the crowd it’s all guess work. I’ll assume it all went fine
This was a big issue from what I’ve read…Raptor owners were crying to Ford wanting their trucks repaired after the frame buckled just behind the cab from “awesome jumps” like this. Ford (again from what i’ve read) said suck it up buttercup…if you’re dumb enough to launch your truck off a ramp like a crusie missle from the deck of a ship then you deserve what you get. I undersand there were lawsuits abound.
Youre correct, I was working for Ford as a tech at the time when the Raptor came out. As you know they showed in the commercials these trucks going off road and doing insane things and playing this up as a racing truck nearly. I mean thats how Ford touted it. Well soon after the trucks came rolling in with frames snapped, bent, gnarled, beds ripped off, crooked, engine mounts busted, same with trans mounts, rear ends cracked, wont even go into the wheels and axles. Ford said nope! Not covered said it wasnt meant for racing, off roading etc. (These where breaking from not major jumps or major off roading trips) Customers came back saying basically “have you seen your fucking selling point and commercials for this truck?! And comments you state about this truck even when you sale it at the dealership?” And they where right, even at the dealerships and our car salesmen they where always touting up its off roading capabilities, how fast it was, and wink wink ” racing” wink wink and basically calling it indestructible. So the lawsuits where filed. Im not sure how they turned out, left Ford not to long after.
Hello, State Farm? Yeah, I’d like to report my truck stolen…no, no idea where it is…
I know, same ol same ol.
Love it!!
in other news Ford Raptors are now completely uninsureable.
” YOU JUST CAN’T FIX STUPID ” ! ! ! ! ! ! !
You can’t fix stupid. But it’s sure fun to watch.