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It's marketing, mostly, and reliant on the tech who checked the boxes to have actually checked the thing the box is for rather than pencil whipping it for even that bit to be useful. I looked at a 'certified' truck that had mud and grass packed in the underside completely obscuring much of the...

I think everybody else got it, but I can break it down like Barney for you: Certain dealers offering a discount on a given vehicle does not speak to the demand level for that vehicle, in this particular thread the Ram RHO. Nobody claimed Granger was $10k off a Bronco at launch. Given the...

Who was strictly speaking of Bronco Raptors? Are you in the right thread? Read the post I initially quoted, then my quote. The relevance seems pretty simple to the conversation actually being had vs whatever you're talking about Braptors.

I left a clickable link in the first post, which goes to the official site. I don't know any more about it beyond that.

Agreed. Even the 5.5' beds on the 1/2 tons looks odd to my eye. Ditch the bed all together and build that Mustang competitor to the Porsche 911 Dakar... I'm sure it would be a low volume seller, but I think it looks like a hoot.

F150 is Ford's centerpiece. The US market largely revolves around it. The Ranger is more of a global platform. Ford will *never* let the Ranger be better than the F-150 in metrics Americans car about because they don't want to cannibalize F-150 sales. Much like Chevrolet will never let a...

I think the interior volume feels reduced as a driver, but how much of that is so much more dash and how much is a second row of people behind you with more room, I don't know. I did sit in a vanilla Ranger and I didn't find it tight in the slightest. I'm 5'11", for reference. The width was...

Keep in mind today's midsize trucks are yesterday's full size trucks by footprint. A current Ranger Raptor has the exact same width as a 70's or '80s F-150 and falls between a regular cab short bed and regular cab long bed for length. The main difference is how much is cab and how much is bed.

I wanted to like the Gladiator, but it just felt ponderously slow once you got past 40mph or so. If they would put the Hurricane, even the standard output, in it then that may revive sales some. I also don't care about the convertible aspect, so that wasn't a decision point for me. The Mojave...

Target hardening. Any anti-theft device can be defeated, but the harder and more burdensome it is to do, the smaller the pool of thieves willing to steal under a given set of circumstances is. Bicycle locks are very easy to defeat, if someone has the knowledge and readily available tools to do...

Looks like someone hacked an older account for some spam time goodness.

https://www.overlandadventuresummit.com/ I have no affiliation with this event, just putting it up for anyone interested. Note it will overlap with the TN meet-up while being about 4 hours away. I'm going to try and attend on Saturday, as it looks like it'll be fun and I'll be in the general...

I was Is that the one with the frame mounted cameras? Such a sweet idea for crawlers to be able to see where rocks are under their vehicles. I think they have the camera view of each tire as well for self-spotting. I still like the Ranger Raptor better overall, but the GM looks fun as well...

Option #1: You didn't send nudes. Option #2: You did send nudes.

I'm out, can't make a 0800 start. If you decide to do a run in the fall, though, I'd be interested if the schedule works.

I6 vs V6, probably.

If you're not having fun with it, move on. If you're scared it's going to break, well, it will. Everything mechanical eventually does. Can you deal with it when it does? Warranties are for suckers and poors. Self insure against any financial loss that isn't catastrophic and, long term...

With the early morning start, I may be out. I have to be in Lexington Ky for an event the night before and doubt I can be back on the road in time to get there. If the map gets shared, I'd still appreciate being included, though.

Granger was offering the same deal on Broncos before they were built. Mark Dodge is a huge volume dealer and does order sales offers for every model. I'm sure some folks will happily pay MSRP or more, just like they did with Broncos and Raptors, but if you are willing to wait for an order and...

But if the Raptor sells at MSRP and the RHO has a $10k discount...(Mark Dodge has a discount to order, Granger has an Invoice -4% to order)

It's a combustion engine they are using in multiple other vehicles, so economy of scale. Keeping the TRX would mean making a model-specific motor for a low sales volume vehicle since the end of the Challenger/Charger V8 cars. Probably one they have to pay Tesla for a carbon credit or some such...

I'd be very interested in a PHEV Ranger Raptor.

I work a later shift so if I see 10 o'clock twice in a day I'm seldom happy about it. :D

Meat point? Didn't know it was that kind of party... June 8th works for me tentatively.