Battle of the BEASTS ?? 2017 @Ford Raptor vs. T-Rex: https://t.co/X6DhfI6F4t pic.twitter.com/vJ3eWiBv60
— Autoblog (@therealautoblog) August 13, 2017
The 2017 F-150 Raptor can sprint to 60 mph in 4.2 seconds. A video clip plays of the truck speeding along off road. The T. rex, played by a guy in a dinosaur suit, waddles along slowly.
The F-150 Raptor has four disc brakes for fade-free braking. The T. rex... has two feet? A similar series of clips plays.
You may think this video is absolutely silly—and it is—but the comparison is more accurate than you might expect.
You would think a real T. rex would perform better than a costumed human, but according to a new study published last month, Tyrannosaurus was limited to a 12-mile-per-hour walk. Any faster, and its legs would have shattered under its own weight!
Not terribly surprising coming from a lizard whose arms were too short to reach its mouth, though it does ruin that scene in Jurassic Park where Jeff Goldblum is in the back of a Jeep shouting "Must go faster!"
Designed for high-speed desert racing, the off-road F-150 Raptor would easily outpace a dinosaur.