Cybertruck vs F-150 Raptor R: DRAG RACE

[Jow]

i wish we'd see these competitions also with the dual motor

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[Crissa]

Had to fast forward this one.

They take an 11.2 quarter mile drag race and drag it out to over 11 minutes!

PS: The Raptor clocked in at 12.4 (corrected and saved you a click!)

Well, there's four races, but yeah, jump to the middle.

I love seeing the truck beat the old one without using pavement.

-Crissa

 

[HaulingAss]

First brake test the CT wins so far.

And you thought the Lamborghini won the brake test, not because it had sport compound rubber, but because the brakes on the Cybertruck sucked?

 

[HaulingAss]

I love seeing the truck beat the old one without using pavement.

I know, that was the real take-away here, just how well the Cybertruck can put down that power on a dusty gravel surface! Incredible control of all that power.

Which makes me wonder why they didn't switch places and put the Raptor R in it's assumed "natural" environment, on the dirt against the Cybertruck. The Raptor having to shift gears in the dirt and every shift would have shown how impotent it was in the dirt. The humiliation would have been epic!

I wonder why they didn't do that? ?

 

[Bkb13]

This was an unnecessary one. Not even in the same speed weightclass.

Agreed, the raptor is a Baja truck. I don’t believe the cyber truck should be in the same class. I’ve taken my raptor on a 15 foot jump. I doubt I’m gonna do that with the cyber truck.

 

[Wraven]

Agreed, the raptor is a Baja truck. I don’t believe the cyber truck should be in the same class. I’ve taken my raptor on a 15 foot jump. I doubt I’m gonna do that with the cyber truck.

CT has done some Baja courses on top of Tesla engineers talking about the suspension of CT being ready to jump it. Also there is even a “Baja” off-road mode in the CT.

seems to me like the CT is muscling in on the Baja scene.

 

[PilotPete]

i wish we'd see these competitions also with the dual motor

Not sure we haven't travelled into the apples v oranges territory here. The AWD model (dual) is not a performance model. The Raptor R IS a performance model. So it is a better comparison. CB v RR. Also, there is a price issue. The Raptor R is quite a bit more expensive than the CT AWD. To me, that's like comparing the M3 rwd single to a 911 Turbo S.

Now, compare the stock F150 eco boost to the AWD CT and we have a "standard v standard" race. Just as if I run my Porsche, I run it in the stock category. If I changed the exhaust, chip, suspension, engine, moved the tires to slicks, etc., I would have an advantage over stock. But they wouldn't let me put my times up against the stock cars. And they would be fair to deny that.

 

[PilotPete]

This was an unnecessary one. Not even in the same speed weightclass.

Agreed, the raptor is a Baja truck. I don’t believe the cyber truck should be in the same class. I’ve taken my raptor on a 15 foot jump. I doubt I’m gonna do that with the cyber truck.

For consumers, I don't think they buy based on weight classes. But they do buy on price. So for a consumer video, matching price makes sense.

 

[Crissa]

Why do they have the CT squatting at lowest ride height in the side by side pic? So stoopid!!@#

It does that by default.

Remember how everyone complains about how the Cybertruck is 'too tall' with the sail pillars?

-Crissa

 

[HaulingAss]

Agreed, the raptor is a Baja truck. I don’t believe the cyber truck should be in the same class. I’ve taken my raptor on a 15 foot jump. I doubt I’m gonna do that with the cyber truck.

The height of the jump is next to meaningless, what matters is how accomodating the landing zone is to the trajectory of the jump.

I wouldn't assume the Raptor has any advantage here. I also wouldn't jump either of them even 15 feet without ensuring the landing was appropriate. Which means I wouldn't bother, I'm not out to risk my trucks to prove that I can do it. Things can go wrong really quickly with either truck. The Raptor is not somehow immune to stupid stunts.

 

[SolarWizard]

I think Carwow had a bunch of cars there to test it just after delivery day. They even had two CTs in the lot to play with by the looks. They are just releasing the videos every couple of days.

I actually enjoyed watching the CT run accross the dirt at speed, lots of roads like that here, suspension looks right.

I also compared the braking distance with the Lambo video. Ct wasn't any better on the other lane either. But the Raptor was worse than the CT and both heaps worse than the Lambo.

The Raptor R is also running a significantly taller and heavier 37 which makes a bigger difference than most people realize

 

[Gurule92]

For consumers, I don't think they buy based on weight classes. But they do buy on price. So for a consumer video, matching price makes sense.

Fair.

Next a baja race between the two?

 

[TruckDaddy]

Let's see a race up a sand dune, as someone posted videos of a Tesla Y beating a Raptor and 2 Jeeps up a sand dune recently. How does a Beast do against an R up a steep sand dune?

 

[Bkb13]

For consumers, I don't think they buy based on weight classes. But they do buy on price. So for a consumer video, matching price makes sense.

I agree. I have a Raptor and was going to get a Raptor R if the cybertruck didn’t work out.

 

[HaulingAss]

I agree. I have a Raptor and was going to get a Raptor R if the cybertruck didn’t work out.

If you can afford it, get a Raptor R while you wait for your reservation to ripen. I think you will find out it's still pretty much a piece of shit. Maybe not relative to other pieces of shit legacy trucks like my 2010 F-150, it will be miles better. But it's still a piece of shit compared to the Cybertruck unless you have some kind of really unusual use case or can't live without that dumb engine blubber (some people can't).

I've had enough engine noises in my life that now, they just sound antiquated and annoying, especially when I'm enjoying the out of doors and one drives by. The Raptor R sounds like it's announcing, "I'm an internal combustion engine revving up. My best days are behind me, and I'm expensive to fuel, I'm not very fast, but I can still do something an electric can't, listen up!".

But if you have the cash, and your reservation wait looks long, why not have one last fling with a Raptor R? It's not like there will be a thriving secondary market where you can buy a new Cybertruck from a scalper for just a couple thousand more.

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