Sand Hill Battle! 2024 Ford Ranger Raptor vs Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro vs Nissan Frontier HardBody.

Any idea of why the Frontier couldn't make it up the hill at the end ? It can't be the power, but a tire or 4wd system not doing something right ?? That's a huge Thumbs down to that truck for buyers who plan to do off roading. I have a 15 Frontier Pro 4x, but haven't taken it off roading. Wonder if traction control wasn't turned off or just a sucky 4wd system ???

Why did you use the hardbody frontier vs the Pro4X . The pro4x would have been a better comparison.

As a ford guy, as cool as the ranger is, I'd still rather the hard body.
Im not about to spend 80+k cdn for a Ranger! Or a taco for that matter!!! Ya sure, twin turbos, high speed desert running, blah blah blah. Id almost be afraid to drive it offload at thst price!
Ifni HAD to choose, give me a first gen Raptor F150 6.2

I love this but we are missing the ZR2 bison or the AT4X

Dumb. Maybe put a Pro 4x in there to be fair.

ranger RAPTOR ❤❤❤

GMC canyon AT4X?

Why no Colorado ZR2 or AT4X??? Would’ve loved to see that comparison!

Yea, it was pointless to have a LWB Frontier Hardbody here. It’s clearly the least off-road capable version of the Frontier and is just a nostalgic aesthetic package. I can understand if it was a Pro4X which would have done better, still wouldn’t have won but it would have truly shown a cheaper off-roader vs these maxed out models.

I understand you’re working with what you can get, but common sense would have said let’s just do a comparison between the TRD Pro and Raptor.

Toyota needs to bring back the V8 tacoma.

Why would you put the non pro 4x with the top of the line models of the other 2 this was a complete waste of my time 😂

So mid trim vs top trims 😂 crazy but eh its all about the tires. Id still take the frontier haha.

Id rather that nissan with that n/a vq38 the tacoma is garbage hybrid 4 cylinder and the ford is just American garbage

Where is the Chevy colorado zr2 it’s missing 😢

The ones that buy the frontier or any base end 4x4 trucks are die hard off roading folks, they wanna build their own way not some already pre built spec truck. As for me I don’t know anything about off roading so I would probably buy the pre built ones and rarely to never hit the trails, the only hills my truck would climb would be speed bumps and the 2 inches of sand that goes on the roadway when I head to the beach.

you picked the wrong nissan, Nissan pro4x I think will do better

I wish the Nissan had about 2 more inches of ground clearance. My outback has 9.7. Nissan 8.6

Comparing a 40k truck vs 80k trucks is unfair tbh

😂😂😂 a esos 3 le gana el Poer 👍🏻

frontier is the best

Bad comparison with Nissan.

Since we’re comparing apples to oranges here a frontier pro4x 45k$ with about 20k$ in mods equaling the the value of both those other trucks would absolutely eat up both the raptor and trd pro

Damn that is sad for Nissan, time to go bankrupt

If you have chosen a Nissan pro 4X and put it in four-wheel-drive probably would have done much better again.

Was that Hardbody edition a 6ft bed as well? And on the drag race, looked like it was in 2wd.

Would have been interesting to see what the Pro 4x would have done. Interesting video nonetheless.

This review was probably sponsored by Ford, as everything in this review was skewed to Ford’s advantage. Did not use the Nissan Pro 4X, which is Nissan’s off road competitor. Also, only did one type of off roading (high speed sand/desert running), which is where the Raptor excels. If you would have done rock crawling or what 99% of the people who buy these trucks will use it for (driving down forest roads to get to a campsite), these three would be roughly equal, if you used the Pro4X. You also left out the Chevy Colorado ZR2, which is just about as good as the Raptor at high speed sand running and significantly less expensive than the Tacoma TRD Pro and a few thousand less than the Raptor; not even the Bison; look at the shocks, ground clearance, approach and departure angles of the regular ZR2; and it comes with rock sliders. Unlike the Raptor, I can walk into any Chevy dealership anywhere and buy a ZR2 that day, and with no markup.

Sam where is the Gladiator Mojave. Would be interesting to how that jeep do against the 2 bad boys.

There are never too many buttons

This looked like fun, super cool location as well. Glad you busted out the orange buckhead hat!

The hard body is stuck in the 90s. That particular model is supposed to be a retro truck if you wanna compare as far as looks are concerned the pro 4X is as good or better looking than anything you have here.

The drag race is cute but that’s 100% tires. Can we measure long-term reliability? Lol

ford is ford

Really a hood scoop it’s a four-cylinder Subaru is a four-cylinder and it has a hood scoop. They’re meant to be there to cool down the engine or at least help with that.

You didn’t state if the Tacoma suspension was in the off road setting which you need to adjust manually

He bought fake subs from India on Temu. 232K Real Subs would have more views than this.
FAKE FAKE FAKE!

The frontier is just because they had it available and couldn't get a pro 4x. Bills need paid, you film with what you have.

Thumbs down for the "coming up" head fake edit to start the video. Stop doing that shit.

Why are there guitars playing in the background ??!!? Fire your editor. Nothing is worse than background music.

This guy always tries to hate on Nissan, and claim Toyota is great, even in pointing out their weak points, he tries not to down Toyota. Like others have mentioned, why use the Hardbody instead of the pro4x? Because in every drag race and every comparison he’s got to make Nissan somehow come out on the bottom. I wonder if he puts the highest selling vehicle on top, because he will get more likes. I’m just going to stop watching these so-called reviews. The interior quality of most Nissans is higher than Toyota now days. I just want to see honesty in comparison. No wonder a great car manufacturer like Nissan is struggling to sell.

Yep. After watching this guy several times, he put a Nissan 2.5L Altima all wheel drive against a turbo Honda Accord, when Nissan makes a turbo charged Altima, and he puts the Nissan Z in a manual against a Supra, when everyone knows the automatic Z is faster. Now he puts a frontier that doesn’t have the tires or suspension for this comparison, and acts like the Nissan is just trash, did it get stuck? I mean always so dishonest in his presentation. Yeah this is my last watch of the dishonesty he presents. Sad!

Yea why not use the pro4x. Not a good comparison video. Downvote

Where's the ZR2...ha ha ha

I like the f150 raptors, the tacoma trds and titans so really no bias here. Watching the video first thing i wondered about is why a lower end frontier since the other 2 are the best offered from their companies. Not a available imdoesnt excuse the apples and oranges comparison, exclude it thats the case. Including the hardbody means you would have to excuse it on its short comings at every point it is incomparable which would also make this a bad comparison. The tires and suspension were seriously lacking. Once he got in the raptor it was mostly him bouncing around in the cab saying he loved it and they didnt show how the suspension was reacting to the terrain. Seems like they were hiding something. Then the drag race had so many things wrong with it. Each line is different in the sand which would give each a different result not to mention there is no good angle to view the different grades they were climbing. All in all my review of the reviewer is that he seems to have alterior motives to skew this review or he just isnt a good reviewer. These days the truck buyers are a wider variety than before, you get guys that just want to say they drive a truck but never do any truck stuff and insist on plush interior which drive the costs up. Then on the other end of the scale you get true wheelers which some still want the pretty interiors and gadgets but you also get the ones that just want a capable truck that they can build on as they need. Sam should have co reviewers that have different views to make it a better channel.

My 1989 d21 hardbody 4x4 is better 😌

You round up the two flagship medium size trucks from Toyota and Ford and an entry level Nissan based entirely on the retro 90’s Hardbody for a challenge.
What’s the next comparison going to be? The Supra, the Mustang 5.0 Shelby and the Nissan Kicks?

For all saying it’s the low end trim of the Frontier, as a PRO-4X owner, the only difference between the Hardbody and the Pro4-X is the cosmetics. The performance is exactly the same. They should have used the RWB instead of the LWB truck though.

Now any r£t@^D is reviewing cars

Nissan should've been a Pro4X to at least make it an even playing field....

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