Ok, all of these specs mean different things depending on who's parsing them ...
- If you're a fan of either brand but not in the market to purchase one of these trucks then all this laptop racing is fun chatting about on forums, but means little in a practical sense, but does mean something for brand marketing.
- If you are in the market for one of these trucks, enjoy instagram and cars & coffee flexing, researching the best waxing products, and cringe should you run over a curb, then specs equal ego points and which truck has more power means a lot to you.
- If you buy an off road focused truck and care about 0-60 times, I can't even.
- If you are one of the small percentage of people who purchase either a Raptor or a TRX, or a Prospector Xl, or a Rubicon, because you intend to use them exactly how they are meant to be used, then the things that matter aren't in the space between 700 and 750 hp. First you define what kind of off roading you want to do and where you want to do it, and then you match the vehicle to the task, and chances are you're going to have to modify no matter what you start with. If you are planning to do high speed desert running, your current choices are the Raptor and the TRX ... we know how the current Raptor performs in that environment, and I am sure the TRX will be equally as good if not better, it better be given that it's four years newer. The question is how the TRX will match up against the next gen Raptor that's about to be released, not in the HP numbers, but as an overall package that works together to achieve said specific task. Things like torque curves, throttle delivery, braking, shocks, springs, body roll, tires, pitch angles, weight, matter a great deal when you're about to go sideways on a high speed rutted curve at 80mph with trees or rocks on either side of you ... in that moment hp means almost nothing, in fact 95% of the time you will actually never need more power than the current Raptor makes. Just like a track car, you will know its truth under pressure and stress and how it copes with it, the rest of it is just impressing Starbucks milfs.
Anyhoot, not judging any reason why anyone would buy one of these trucks. Folks buy GT3s all the time and they never track them. I have a diver watch that goes to the center of the earth that I don't take to the shower. Everyone should do what makes them happy with their hard earned moneys. Heck people put lifts and 22s on Raptors for some reason, I'm sure some will do the same with the TRX. Just saying that all the hp war stuff is actually almost irrelevant to those who will use these trucks as intended, for them off road
overall package performance is the only thing that matters and may be the difference between making it home or looking for a missing upper control arm upside down in the middle of the desert.
When the time comes when the two trucks can be tested side by side in that environment, the better one will reveal itself, and it will have almost nothing to do with HP.
Stability is everything:
