The Bronco Raptor is impressive like the Hetch-Hetchy Dam. This is not to say the Bronco Raptor is not remarkable, and worthy of gawking at. Coyote life I was living at full throttle. What were cacti became little green dots, background to the Wile E. I saw the webby fingers of tumbleweeds, clawing at the ground, here where the Earth is soft and porous and shifting and infirm. With this Bronco Raptor, the most actual nature I experienced was when I got out to pee. The human brain processes things at walking speed, and, simply, you see more the less distance you travel. Generally speaking, nature is better the slower you go.

It’s designed to go out out past where paved roads end out past the subdivisions and strip malls and gas stations, past the farms and the dirt roads, all the way out into nature. After all, this might be the fast version of a truck, but it’s still a truck. It’s funny that the Bronco Raptor, codenamed 'Warthog' by Ford under development and nicknamed 'Braptor' by us assembled press, gets better the faster you go.

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