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Raptor or Filson?

Deadpool392

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Is that referenced towards me or the reply? I have taken my Raptor on several trails and have received some beauty marks already. My reason for asking about that system is specifically because everything I am seeing is several years old or just dirt bikes and quads on trails. Mainly I am looking to avoid having to back out on a trail that suddenly becomes very narrow, pinstripes I am not worried about. Yes the Raptor is wide, and I knew that going in, but it has (mostly) went everywhere I previously went in my Jeeps and was a lot better overall. Personally, I would still get a Raptor over the Filson.
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It was a compliment to you.
Others lie or have never been on a trail and then lie, you told the truth and had no qualms about asking.



Defender folk have a certain stereotype attached to them. Ford filson hopes those folks are as shallow as the stereotype tells of


And Lake Havasu City wants to be Palm Springs..
 
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I try to be truthful about my Bronco, I know it isn’t for everyone, but the Raptor was really the only Bronco I wanted. That’s not a slight towards anyone else’s Bronco, but for me it was what I wanted when moving from a Jeep.
 

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I try to be truthful about my Bronco, I know it isn’t for everyone, but the Raptor was really the only Bronco I wanted. That’s not a slight towards anyone else’s Bronco, but for me it was what I wanted when moving from a Jeep.
I'd have a two door raptor that wasn't as wide tracked as a hummer.

The
Body Width
Axle width
Wheelbase
four Doors
Are all that kept me from a raptor.

I know where my two door can easily go that a raptor can't.
I don't know where a raptor can go that my two door can't.
 

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I have no dog in this fight…I have no interest in either…they both have 4 doors…and yes I am a 2 door snob…but for the trails I go on the regular Bronco (filson) is marginally too wide and the Raptor is a complete no go…but of course anyone looking at a filson isn’t going off roading at all, but then few Raptor owners are going 80mph across the desert either…party on!
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