As an automotive idiot, I like things that are different from the vehicular norm. Take, for example, the truck listed for sale above. It’s a 2011 Ford Raptor. No, it’s not being sold for $390,000… that’s the price in Mexican pesos. It translates to a bit over $20,000, which isn’t bad for a truck with nearly 38,000 miles on it.
Granted, those could be rough and tumble Raptor miles but still… I’m now interested.
Why? Because in the Mexican market, the Ford F-150 is called the Lobo. That translates to Wolf. Which means I’d have a Wolf Raptor… and that’s fucking awesome.
I’m not in the market for a Wolf Raptor at the moment, but now I can’t stop looking them up on Mexican automotive For Sale sites. How awesome would the drive home be if you were to purchase this thing? It would pretty much be a requirement to take a route up the Baja peninsula.
Also, I happen to be going to Mexico this very weekend…
[Source: Auto.Mercado.Libre]
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Even if you just bought it as an off road only toy, due to registration/import issues, it is still cheaper than a new Polaris RZR side by side.
I’d lean pretty heavily on the substantially similar clause. Unless Ford is unwilling to attest that it’s just a Raptor by another name, it should be able to be imported.
Gringo driving northbound in a desert offroad capable vehicle out of Mexico. You’ll get your Wolf Raptor back in six years distributed among a matched set of shoeboxes once customs and the DEA is done with it.
Just buy some Lobo emblems on eBay,
Does it come in white? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/45d810b08a05d0102e684fac6ab0a4881dd8c7d7e7a3dda5ff1c07e7b18e9010.jpg
Is this the google image search results if you misspell “wolf” “owlf”?
“wolf bird”
The new ones don’t actually have any LOBO emblems on them – do the first-gen? I’m thinking the ads say LOBO simply because they’re SuperCrew models (“Doble Cabina” in Mexico).
https://www.ford.mx/performance/raptor/
BOOOOOO
VINCENT: …You know what they call a F150 in Mexico City?
JULES: They don’t call it a F150?
VINCENT: No, they got the metric system there, they wouldn’t know what the fü¢× a F150 is.
JULES: What’d they call it?
VINCENT: Lobo.
JULES: Lobo. What’d they call a Big Mac?
VINCENT: Big Mac’s a Big Mac, but they call it Le Big Mac.
JULES: What do they call a Whopper?
VINCENT: I dunno, I didn’t go into a Burger King.
Mexico, La Big Mac, not Le Big Mac.
(My Spanish is pretty much limited to the names and menu items at a Mexican restaurant, so I might be wrong.)
El Big Mac?
I think I’d rather have this:
http://hennesseyperformance.com/vehicles/ford/f-150-raptor/hennessey-velociraptor-suv/2013-2014-hennessey-velociraptor-suv/
http://hennesseyperformance.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Hennessey_VelociRaptor_SUV_Black-01.jpg