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Old 11-28-2016, 01:24 PM
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Meanwhile, this morning in the desert at Press Week:

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH,

But really, with each day we all get closer to delivery.
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I saw a new FB post from a dealer that all their trucks with ETA's are now showing TBD. Nothing confirmed but goes with some others who were hinting at some bad news coming. Maybe Jan is not looking that bad. Crap. Back to looking for virgin volunteers to sacrifice to the Ford Raptor Gods!

Instead of press releases how about truck releases?
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Meanwhile, this morning in the desert at Press Week:

Notice the second truck appears to have 4 small lights on top. I have seen one other pic that had them too. Anyone know anything about that? I don't recall an option for that.
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Guessing extra clearance lights, the China approved Raptor had the same 4 things on the roof

You can tell the headlights are the China Raptor ones, too
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Guessing extra clearance lights, the China approved Raptor had the same 4 things on the roof

You can tell the headlights are the China Raptor ones, too
That's just wrong that Ford is building China Raptors before the US demand has been met. I need to call Trump....
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Instead of press releases how about truck releases?
I'll ask my brother if he can tell us anything useful about that. Not holding my breath though.
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Here's the other pic I saw. It also has a better view of the different headlights.
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I talked with my brosef, so the random black bumps on the group pic trucks are GPS and a communications antenna. Not sure what the ones on that blue crew cab (other pic of 1 truck) are.

Also, he won't comment on the delays in delivery, he says the engineers won't tell him the full story anyway.
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Originally Posted by MotorsportsAustin
I talked with my brosef, so the random black bumps on the group pic trucks are GPS and a communications antenna. Not sure what the ones on that blue crew cab (other pic of 1 truck) are.

Also, he won't comment on the delays in delivery, he says the engineers won't tell him the full story anyway.
The 4 "bumps" on the corners of the roof of of the blue one and that black one in your pic are clearance lights for the Chinese market trucks. They also have reflectors in the rear bumper as well along with the different headlights mentioned before. The other black bump is the satellite radio antenna.

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