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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ayric" data-source="post: 6710" data-attributes="member: 11632"><p>I’ve only had it for a couple of weeks - barely 200 miles on the odo.  It’s not a daily driver.  I’ve alway kept a “high water escape vehicle” in the garage living in Houston.  Traded in a 2024 Ineos Grenadier that I had built up and customized.  I’ll drive it a couple days of the week, take it to the deer lease and the lake, etc.  Don’t plan on hardcore offroading anymore (been there and done that) but it will be used for more than just a pavement princess.  Honestly, I had no intentions on giving up the Grenadier but we bought my daughter a 2023 Bronco Badlands 2 dr manual.  Flew to Ohio to pick it up on her last day of school and road tripped it back.  I enjoyed it so much I decided to get the Raptor for me just so we could have some daddy-daughter bonding with our Broncos.  She already has a list of stuff she wants to do to it.  She doesn’t turn 16 until December so that gives her time to get comfortable with the manual transmission and save up her summer work money for some of her modification list.  Happy with the Bronco Raptor so far.  It does ride significantly better than the solid axle Grenadier or a Wrangler on the roads.  The IFS makes a huge difference.  If I was going to really be doing significant trails and rock crawling I would still stick with a solid axle vehicle but the BRaptor is perfectly suited for what I need it to be now.</p></blockquote><p></p>