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RYAN ZUMMALLEN: You hear all that power?
Truck noises.
Yeah.
Hey, guys.
It's your lucky day because we are
having a drag race in the dirt.
That's right.
We've got the 2022 RAM TRX 702 horsepower
going against the 2022 Ford Raptor 450 horsepower.
So on paper, the TRX with its mighty engine
is the clear favorite.
But can the Raptor use its weight advantage
to put the power down faster?
We're about to find out.
This is not exactly scientific, but it is going
to be a hell of a lot of fun.
To help us today, we've got two drivers from our Edmunds test
Team, Jonathan and Reese.
So let's get them out there and see what happens.
REESE COUNTS: Drag races with trucks.
Let's go.
I am in the RAM 1,500 TRX, T-rex,
whatever you want to call it.
The Hellcat powered pickup truck, which
I'm frankly excited about.
I'm racing Jonathan in the F-150 Raptor.
And I hope I'm going to kick his butt.
Seriously though, Jonathan's truck weighs a lot less.
So he may have a better chance of putting the power down,
especially with all this torque.
That said, the thing has got launch control.
And the Ford does not.
Good luck to him, honestly, because I think I might already
have this one in the bag.
But surprise, surprise.
All right.
I am in the Raptor.
I'm a little down on horsepower, 250 horsepower or so.
A bit of an underdog here.
But I also don't weigh as much as that T-rex.
But I still think that the T-rex has better power
to weight ratio.
It's just got so much horsepower.
So what I'm banking on is my lightness
is going to help me get off the line a little better.
I have the larger 37 inch tires.
Not sure if those are going to give me an advantage
necessarily in this instance.
But I'm hoping that they do.
There is not a whole lot of settings
that you need to fuss with in the Raptor.
My plan is to run in Sport mode.
And then there's no launch control here.
So I'm just going to go straight up
and power brake this thing, which
means I'm going to stand on the brake with my left foot, floor
the gas with my right, and then let everything
rip as soon as they say go.
We'll see what happens.
Hopefully, this Raptor can pull out a win against the big bully
T-rex.
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RYAN ZUMMALLEN: Countdown in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, go.
JONATHAN ELFALAN: Oh, God.
I thought I had him.
Oh, man.
RYAN ZUMMALLEN: Oh man.
He is way, way, way, way back there.
JONATHAN ELFALAN: That's a lot of dirt.
REESE COUNTS: Oh man.
JONATHAN ELFALAN: Oh boy.
I had a decent lunch.
And so I thought I had you.
I thought I had a chance.
And then when you hooked up, you were just gone.
Yeah, I was just watching.
I was watching that glorious dust of a rooster tail just--
the view is spectacular.
REESE COUNTS: I mean that, Raptor I really did
think you had me for just a second.
But yeah, man, this thing just pulls away once--
I don't know.
Past about 30 miles an hour.
JONATHAN ELFALAN: Yeah, I mean, that thing has been launching--
it seems like it hooks up pretty well.
But yeah, you got a little bit more wheel spin
than I was expecting.
And this thing just took off.
There's no launch control.
So I was just brake torquing it.
But I got it flying just fine.
It hooked up.
I was like, man, these 37s really work.
But then you just blew right past me.
And it was done.
REESE COUNTS: I know.
I got a little eager.
I raised the launch RPM a few hundred.
So I thought I might have you.
But fooled me.
JONATHAN ELFALAN: Getting a little greed there, man.
I think you should go full 4,000 RPM and just go for it.
REESE COUNTS: Four over an ounce.
JONATHAN ELFALAN: All right.
Rolling race.
I got my fingers crossed.
RYAN ZUMMALLEN: Here we go.
See if this makes a difference.
Ready, set, go.
JONATHAN ELFALAN: Oh.
REESE COUNTS: Whoa.
Whoa.
JONATHAN ELFALAN: Had him for a second.
Oh, it's way closer this time.
Oh man, that horsepower.
REESE COUNTS: Bye.
RYAN ZUMMALLEN: Whoo, big rooster tails.
JONATHAN ELFALAN: Yeah.
I didn't think that was going to go any differently.
REESE COUNTS: Well, that Raptor got a hell of a start
once it was rolling.
We were neck and neck for a little bit.
JONATHAN ELFALAN: I think what happened
is both of our trucks downshifted but mine did
it just a hair quicker than yours,
which meant I got a little bit of a start.
Again, just a glimmer of hope, and then it was crushed.
REESE COUNTS: I know that thing has got a 10 speed.
So I wonder if it's geared a little shorter,
which helped the acceleration once we were moving.
Because I-- again, like you said,
this thing had to downshift too.
But yeah, once this thing got cooking--
JONATHAN ELFALAN: Again, I had a moment of bliss
as I just nosed ahead maybe by 2 feet.
And then it was the same story as the first race.
But that's OK.
I think this thing puts up a pretty decent fight considering
I'm down by what, 240 horsepower.
That's not bad for a V6.
REESE COUNTS: Not at all.
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RYAN ZUMMALLEN: OK, what did we see out there?
Well, we saw 700 plus horsepower pull away.
That's what.
The TRX simply got to work, hitting 60
in 4.6 seconds, more than a full second faster than the Raptor
at six seconds even.
For its part, the Ford finished the quarter at well
over 14 seconds.
That was not enough to beat the TRX at a gnarly 13.1.
And the rolling race didn't change things much.
The Raptor got up to 92 with a slightly quicker finish
than the race before.
But the TRX hit 100 exactly, with plenty
of distance between the two.
Turns out 3 and 1/2 tons of truck, hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds of horsepower, that creates a lot of dust.
But it was still a lot of fun watching those two trucks
barrel down the lake bed.
Let us know if we should put something
else up against the TRX.
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