Re: Marine vet credits Raptor for saving his life in crash - and Ford was listening

On 2024-03-10, American way <[email protected]> wrote:
> A U.S. Marine who nearly lost his life in Afghanistan got a once-in-a-
> lifetime gift from a Detroit automaker whose vehicle helped him escape 
> death once more.
>
> Tyler Vargas-Andrews, 26, of Virginia, retired from the Marine Corps after 
> losing his right arm and his left leg during a suicide bomber attack in 
> Kabul. He told the Detroit Free Press he purchased a 2023 Ford Raptor 
> truck as a gift to himself for not dying.
>
> And that vehicle may have saved his life.
>
> But the story doesn't end there.
>
> After a 2017 Nissan Murano crashed into him and totaled his truck on 
> Thanksgiving Day, the military veteran credited the Raptor with saving his 
> life in an Instagram post, tagging #Ford and #FordPerformance.
>
> "Closest I've come to dying in a while," Vargas-Andrews wrote on Nov. 26, 
> 2023.
>
> People at Ford Motor Co. saw the social media post and forwarded the 
> information to executive chair Bill Ford, great-grandson of the company 
> founder. Then the automaker decided to take action.
>
> "Ford is replacing Tyler's original Raptor with Bill taking a personal 
> hand in making sure it happened," Mike Levine, Ford North America product 
> communications director, told the Detroit Free Press on Wednesday. "I 
> don't think I've met any person tougher than Tyler. He sacrificed so much 
> to serve and this is the least we can do to thank him. He is a resilient, 
> inspirational and amazing person."

>
> https://finance.yahoo.com/news/marine-vet-credits-raptor-saving-
> 121131729.html

The Ford Raptor is a beast of a truck.
At least the ICE version.

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