i'm mark williams for pickup trucks , and we're here in ocotillo wells where
we're testing
ford svt raptor against the ram run the first time anywhere that these two have
collided in head-to-head battle the best way we know how to do that is to get the
best professional driver we can and that person is Chad Ragland is here with us
today and he's going to be our hot shoe behind the vehicle Chad
thank you very much for being here thanks i'm honored to be here it's my
pleasure
so how much experience do you have with either of these two truck to be honest
I've got quite a bit experience in a raptor obviously been out longer and
around you know for one great time and
I've got some time behind the wheel I spent some dirt miles them excellent
and the reason you're here is obviously because you have got an amazing
experience invest in the desert and score deserts races
I've got to desert races and find out which ad what do you think the best way
to test these vehicles
well what we've done out here and i think it's going to be the best and
fairest way to test them is to build a loop
it's got varying terrain from sand rock to loops hills
you know good combination of everything put the trucks out there on the time
course on stop watch and record some data and we'll just collect it all the
end and you know give our opinions and may be crowned champion
well let's see how they both do against you
alright so we'll go into four wheel here
sandy hill
alright we're back into two for the great inroads
a lot of braking braking bumps on the suspension definitely not the brakes
stiffens up front of the whole vehicle really
which is something that we do believe is trouble
obviously we need the springs for the big hole
there that was good i can really feel the front move and you can tell feel the
yea even there that was nothing
pretty good that pretty good
that's pretty impressive filter that's big
yeah that's a monster box, show me another truck that can do that
I can feel full of driving home or I'd like to see what the ratio between the
front rear split is and I think that that knew they would say it's worst
natural I can feel that
more with a front when the rear its like
and the reason I can feel it because the steering get slower and that might be
what I feel the steering is the front just pulling more but the more you have
steering is going to get slower or at least feel like that
ratio's technically not changing
I think body roll on both the truck is pretty minimal
I don't know a lot of a lot of chassis roll
but also because of the springs now I do feel more swapping of weight side to side
just the trucks have to be driven differently and stuff like that
so that we didn't even lost suspension that with the front skid plate in first
I think we need to make some disclaimer on this and not drive like this at home
alright Chad now that you've had a chance to take both vehicles to their
limits
give me some of your thoughts about the SBT rap you know as I was telling you
earlier I don't think god this is such apples to oranges or just maybe you know
PG apple and a granny smith or something because both trucks have their strengths
and may be slight weakness
the Raptor out of the box is a really really good handling truck on anything
you know
off-road medium hit bumps it's great it really really takes it well I
think it's sprung real comfortably shocks work really well it handles the
wide stances with wonderful you want to get a little bit gnarly with you start
to get in a rhythm loop section older deep
that's where you see the runner really kind of take lead just because it's got
stiffer Springs on it more suspension and more ground
the trucks its height so I think it's really hard to compare one's going to be
probably better everyday driver may be that your Ford you're going to be off
road every day
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