00:00 Good morning, this is B-Boy Vargas for Top Gear Philippines, and welcome to the LA 4x4
00:06 Consulting Proving Grounds, where today we have a Ford Ranger Raptor.
00:28 So here we go, trying to get the off-road impressions on the car.
00:33 Let's start with a slippery, rutted descent to the river.
00:37 We've got four-wheel drive low and gauged.
00:40 As you can see, the car is intervening, so it seems to know better than the driver.
00:50 Come down here, keep it straight, and then just let go of the gas, and the car should
00:57 go.
00:59 No brakes, no gas, the car brings us down nice and safe.
01:05 So score one for the Ranger Raptor.
01:11 Let's switch to a more normal setting.
01:16 I'm going down to four-wheel drive automatic.
01:21 Shift in progress.
01:22 Okay, so we're on advanced track, we're shifting to slippery mode, all-wheel drive, and let's
01:32 have a blast.
01:33 There, it behaved.
01:34 Go to the rock section.
01:35 Of course, we will now go to the rock setting.
01:48 Rock crawl.
01:54 The rock crawl, the throttle response and the engine braking and the brakes practically
02:02 control the car.
02:03 You just control the pace.
02:06 So I'm barely on the throttle.
02:09 We're not yet on the really rutty stuff, but we're getting there.
02:16 This is where you learn to appreciate the coil spring suspension of the car.
02:21 It's nice and soft, unlike those leaf spring vehicles that will rock your head off.
02:26 As you can see, we're doing fine.
02:31 Trolling along.
02:34 These are pretty huge rocks, by the way.
02:37 So we have to pick our line more carefully.
02:44 We'd be able to cross the river here, but recent rains the past two weeks just won't
02:51 let us.
02:52 So again, I'm barely on the accelerator.
02:57 I'm actually playing at around 1,800 rpm in rock crawl mode so that we can maneuver over
03:09 the rocks.
03:10 Now we're stuck.
03:11 So back up a little.
03:13 The idea is to maintain a little more momentum.
03:15 I guess we don't have enough traction because we didn't air the tires down enough.
03:21 But we're getting through.
03:24 And we're through the rock field.
03:32 No hot-dogging.
03:33 Okay, so let's see how rock crawl works on a slippery slope like this.
03:40 Not level at all.
03:43 So we'll try to take it as slow as possible.
03:46 Yes, it's getting it, pulling us through.
03:50 Not the way I would want it, but...
03:57 Yep, pulling us through.
04:05 It's not about just stomping on that accelerator.
04:11 It's about getting traction.
04:13 No sweat.
04:16 And we barely hit 3,000 rpm.
04:25 Splash it.
04:26 Can't get more authentic than this.
04:32 So we did the off-roading stuff.
04:35 Now let's do what the Raptor suspension was meant to do, go fire-roading.
04:42 And here we go.
04:47 Pretty well-built.
04:48 Feels solid.
04:49 You just gotta love the way that Fox suspension soaks up the bad road.
05:08 A big splash.
05:20 Kinda like the feel of how it seemed to be bolted together properly.
05:28 Feels very solid.
05:34 Maybe I stopped on a dime.
05:39 I just think that it could use a little more lower gearing on the final drive for a little
05:48 more control on the off-road stuff.
05:49 But I would understand where it would be coming from because this is the kind of stuff this
05:55 car was made to do.
06:00 So what do I think of the new Ford Ranger Raptor?
06:03 It still has all the fun and adventure the first generation has to offer.
06:09 The only difference is, back then on the first generation, it had a flashbang.
06:15 It was a new setup in the market and it really stole everybody's hearts.
06:21 With the second generation, it's still the same car.
06:24 Definitely looks tougher, has more electronic toys, but it lost that flashbang of something
06:31 new introduced into the market.
06:34 So I'm giving it 7.5.
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