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- They say that weight is the enemy of performance.
They haven't driven a Raptor R.
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That thing will do a burnout on pavement too.
And if you think that thing is brash,
you haven't heard a Cadillac Escalade V.
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This is the loudest car we've ever heard.
I haven't heard anything this loud since that porcupine
stabbing in suburban Detroit.
I don't care what they say,
there is no way that thing is legal.
Shut it off.
God.
Sorry.
If all of this Americana is too American for you,
well, the Brits have an answer.
Hello sir.
- Good day.
- Is this on?
- I do believe so, sir.
- But I can't hear it, sir.
- It's the same thing with this thing.
Hmm, British thing.
Either way, each of these apartment buildings
on wheels weighs 6,000 pounds,
and yet they're all faster than.
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The fastest heavyweights in the world.
Or are they?
You're gonna wanna watch this one.
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(alarm sounding)
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The Ford F-150 Raptor R is the sort of
automotive Swiss army knife that honestly shouldn't be legal
and probably isn't in places like say, Switzerland
where the Swiss army knife comes from.
But here, it's king of the road.
700 supercharged V8 horsepower.
Enough suspension travel to run over a supercar,
and a 10 speed automatic that bangs off shifts
like a gun slinger from the wild, wild west.
(engine revving)
And multiple gunshots are exactly what
the Cadillac Escalade V's exhaust sounds like.
Kids these days love their crackle tunes,
but Cadillac has out deafened all of them.
This is one of the loudest production cars we've ever heard,
and it's glorious.
(engine revving)
And the engine is a full liter bigger than the Raptor's,
6.2 liters of supercharged push rod V8
that makes 682 horsepower.
With the same 10 speed automatic as the Ford
and weighing just one American sized passenger more,
this is going to be one hell of a race.
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If you expect the Range Rover to have ye oldie timey
five liter supercharged V8, you're stuck in the past.
It has another ancient V8, BMW's 15 year old 4.4 liter,
now making 523 horsepower.
And if you're wondering why on Earth a Range Rover has
a BMW engine in it years or decades after Land Rover
and BMW broke up, so am I.
I have no explanation for this.
It makes no sense, but it does make a lot of power.
(engine revving)
Step aside, all of you, burbling peasant pleasing V8s
because the Rolls-Royce has arrived with not only
the largest engine of the group
at six and three quarter liters,
but the most cylinders, 12, and two turbochargers
shoved up its very dignified derriere.
See ya, toots.
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It weighs exactly nine pounds more than the Raptor.
(stars twinkling)
(bottle shattering)
It weighs exactly the same as the Raptor.
And now we need to find out whether it cuts the mustard.
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(timer sounding)
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(tape rewinding)
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Whoa.
Well, there are only two words for that.
It's holy and something I'm not allowed to say on YouTube.
Okay, the Raptor R allows full break torque
and then explodes off the line,
hitting 60 in three and a half-ish seconds.
(engine revving)
That's Porsche Carrera GT territory.
And that's not the most impressive thing.
The most impressive thing is how hard
that V8 pulls at the top end of the tac.
I have never seen anything like it in a truck ever.
This high rev urgency puts this thing
on a different planet to the other cars.
It crossed the line more than 100 feet
in front of the Cadillac.
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Which is even more insane considering that thing
has already been sitting at its 112 mile an hour
speed limiter long before it ever crossed the line.
The Raptor R's engine comes from the Mustang Shelby GT 500,
but the Escalade V's engine sounds like it comes from hell.
But it actually comes from the CT5-V Blackwing
where it makes precisely half as much noise.
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The V is about five and a half truck lengths back,
but it nearly matches the Raptor's speed
by the time it crosses.
That's because the Raptor is pressing up
against its limiter, but the Caddy is still pulling hard.
Ultimately though, it's already 7/10 behind
by 60 miles an hour, which can't be explained
by its extra 215 pounds and 18 horsepower deficit.
The culprit?
Well, there are three of them.
Number one, Cadillac makes far less power
at the very top of the tac.
Number two, it's shifts sound better, but they're slower.
And number three, gearing.
Once you account for the differences in tire size,
the Cadillac's gears are about 15% longer
than the Raptor R's.
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The Rolls-Royce might not have cut the mustard,
but it did damn near keep up with that Escalade V
the whole way down the track.
In fact, once the two trucks shifted into second gear,
they were separated by just 2/10 of a second
the entire way down the quarter.
And at these speeds,
that translates into a truck length than a half.
(engines revving)
So sorry, darling.
Better luck next time.
God, that never gets old.
(chuckling)
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That is a hell of a performance considering, A,
it accomplishes that acceleration in near silence
and outrageous comfort.
And B, it has a near 20% deficit in power and weight.
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And you can blame that overachievement
on the enormous twin turbo V12's
perfectly flat torque curve.
Or perhaps blame is to lie on the spirit
of ecstasy located perfectly betwixt my thighs.
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The Range Rover is the length of a city bus,
but weigh lighter than most.
It's the only car here to weigh in under 6,000 pounds.
It hurdles itself to 60 in 4.6 seconds,
but winds up eight and a half truck lengths
behind the Raptor.
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That is really not bad
considering this is missing a Miata's worth
of horsepower relative to that Raptor.
Hey, maybe that's why they put a BMW engine in this thing.
As always, they're overachievers.
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So the Raptor can leave regular trucks for dead.
But what happens when we pit it
against heavyweights from performance brands?
(engines revving)
This is a Mercedes G63 AMG,
a shape that's been around since the 1970s.
It loves to almost pull its front wheels
off the ground on a hard launch,
which is only one of the reasons we love it.
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That is a Lamborghini Urus.
It is the most successful vehicle in Lambo history,
selling almost as many units
in five years as Lamborghini did all of its cars combined
in the previous 50.
Neither can match the Raptor's 700 horsepower,
but it needs to be said,
the little G Wagon is 300 pounds less.
And that positively tiny little Lamborghini Urus
over there weighs 750 pounds less.
So what happens now?
Let's find out.
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(radar gun beeping)
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- Well done.
King Charles shall be most elated.
- The Mercedes front end gets light on the launch,
but the longer wheel base Raptor
just leaves the AMG for dead,
hitting 60 1/3 of a second sooner.
It continues to pull the whole way,
finishing well ahead of the completely lunatic AMG.
Meanwhile, neither can come close to the Lamborghini.
(engines revving)
Which uses its summer tire traction, power,
and low-ish weight to explode off the line.
It doesn't quite unseat our reigning SUV Champion,
this car's mechanical twin, the Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT.
But it's enough for the Lamborghini to finish
even ahead of the Raptor.
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(leaderboard ticking)
Showing that lightweight matters,
even when you're talking about 6,000 pound monsters.
And by the way, a gallon of Grey Poupon
weighs nine and a half pounds,
but we emptied it for science.
- [Randy] Science, so we should just ignore your corpulence?
- Shut up, Randy, you pompous twat.
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