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I've been firmly in the Badlands camp since the reveal in July. Since then, hardtop issues caused...

- 4Dr Wildtrak price drop from $51,370 to $49,475. That $1895 price drop essentially gives you the MIC hardtop for free, only change is color. As of yesterday,
- 2.7L Auto price increased from $1895 to $3490. This increased the price of my Badlands $1595, while the Wildtrak price remained constant.

$1895 + $1595 = $3490

Wildtrak has gained a $3490 price advantage relative to Badlands since the July launch.

Wildtrak Advantages:
- Prefer the look of the front bumper AND it has fog lights which aren't available on Badlands
- Cloth seats are better suited to south Florida heat than vinyl
- Wildtrak has Baja AND Sport mode. Sport mode is not available on Badlands
- Sound deadening headliner IS available on Wildtrak, not on Badlands 2.7L
- Optioning Badlands w/2.7L, automatic, hardtop, Mid Pkg, beadlocks & GY Territory makes cost $2485 MORE than Wildtrak
- Prefer lighter color Wildtrak interior and lack of orange stitching and plastic

Never considered Wildtrak until today, but sometimes fate pushes you in a different direction. Thoughts?
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I've been firmly in the Badlands camp since the reveal in July. Since then, hardtop issues caused...

- 4Dr Wildtrak price drop from $51,370 to $49,475. That $1895 price drop essentially gives you the MIC hardtop for free. As of yesterday,
- 2.7L Auto price increased from $1895 to $3490. This increased the price of my Badlands $1595, while the Wildtrak price remained constant.

$1895 + $1595 = $3490

Wildtrak has gained a $3490 price advantage relative to Badlands since the July launch.

Wildtrak Advantages:
- Prefer the look of the front bumper AND it has fog lights which aren't available on Badlands
- Cloth seats are better suited to south Florida heat than vinyl
- Wildtrak has Baja AND Sport mode. Sport mode is not available on Badlands
- Sound deadening headliner IS available on Wildtrak, not on Badlands 2.7L
- Optioning Badlands w/2.7L, automatic, hardtop, Mid Pkg, beadlocks & GY Territory makes cost $2485 MORE than Wildtrak
- Prefer lighter color Wildtrak interior and lack of orange stitching and plastic

Never considered Wildtrak until today, but sometimes fate pushes you in a different direction. Thoughts?
I think the Wildtrak wheels are better looking as well - I prefer all the black accents . . . originally reserved the WT but have been back and forth more times than I can count - but always seem to end up back where I started . . .
 

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How does the WT have a price advantage because the hardtop? They removed it, they took off the cost. The Badlands doesn’t have it, there is no cost, it’s just even at that point.
 

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I've been firmly in the Badlands camp since the reveal in July. Since then, hardtop issues caused...

- 4Dr Wildtrak price drop from $51,370 to $49,475. That $1895 price drop essentially gives you the MIC hardtop for free. As of yesterday,
- 2.7L Auto price increased from $1895 to $3490. This increased the price of my Badlands $1595, while the Wildtrak price remained constant.

$1895 + $1595 = $3490

Wildtrak has gained a $3490 price advantage relative to Badlands since the July launch.

Wildtrak Advantages:
- Prefer the look of the front bumper AND it has fog lights which aren't available on Badlands
- Cloth seats are better suited to south Florida heat than vinyl
- Wildtrak has Baja AND Sport mode. Sport mode is not available on Badlands
- Sound deadening headliner IS available on Wildtrak, not on Badlands 2.7L
- Optioning Badlands w/2.7L, automatic, hardtop, Mid Pkg, beadlocks & GY Territory makes cost $2485 MORE than Wildtrak
- Prefer lighter color Wildtrak interior and lack of orange stitching and plastic

Never considered Wildtrak until today, but sometimes fate pushes you in a different direction. Thoughts?
With my build I see the BL as around $750 more. I also live in FL and want the MGV and rubber flooring bc how often it rains. I would hate to get caught top off in rain with cloth seats. Also going to beach and getting sand out w/ cloth. If you get mud in the interior after a day of off-roading when its been raining or recently rained.
 
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I’ve been firmly in the WT camp for awhile but word of warning a lot of people will come here and tell you how bad they hate the interior for whatever damn reason even though they aren’t buying the WT. they feel their
Little opinion will somehow change your mind on buying it...
 
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How does the WT have a price advantage because the hardtop? They removed it, they took off the cost. The Badlands doesn’t have it, there is no cost, it’s just even at that point.
Go to Badlands in B&P. The Mod shadow black hardtop is $1895, MIC is $695. Always been a $1200 difference between the two. Wildtrak was $51,370, which Ford reduced by $1895 when MOD tops became unavailable. They made the price reduction, but included the $695 MIC top for free to appease buyers who lost the fancy top option. This has been discussed ad nauseum in this forum.
 

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Get rid of that ugly interior and I would get the WT.
Ford should allow us to pick any of the BL\WT interiors for either one . I'd go WT for the MGV .
 

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Price of the mod top was baked into the base price of the WT, by lowering the price by the incremental cost of the mod top, and downgrading to the MIC. It is a wash, you don't get a free MIC top, that cost is still in the base MSRP of the WT. Sorry to burst your bubble, but you cannot count the $1895 price difference as an advantage from July as it was de-contented an equal amount. Yes, adding MIC hardtop to the 4 door BL gives a price advantage to the WT now (goes the other way in the 2 door as MIC is a standard item on the 2 doors), but for that $2500 difference you get a more expensive bumper (we get that is it not to your taste, but it is an upgrade), same as the more substantial MGV interior (again your personal preference doesn't mean it isn't an upgrade for others), the heavy duty underbody protection, DSB, rock rails, etc. If you add those things to the WT to make it close to a hardtop BL, the price is about the same. So it is great that you like the lower priced options better than the higher, that is a total win for you, but if you add stuff to both trims to get them as equal as possible, the pricing is essentially the same.
 

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The badlands is now several thousand higher than the Wildtrax on my build. $55-$60k seems way too much to get garbage interior options. I might just have to get an F-150.
 
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please elaborate!
 

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If you are getting a badlands with Manual /33”.. nothing has changed other then I am still very happy with my build.. Sorry to hear about the misleading information. Ford should have address this mistake the week it came out. Now I am 100% sure the manual is for me??
 

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Just added 2.7 to BL and it popped a window stating that the automatic was a required change and increasing the price around $3300 or so. Makes my Manual BL (unchanged price) look a lot better by comparison. Better to have the band-aid ripped off now than if they had actually had the dealers tell people that the site was wrong and they had to pay the correct amount at order instead of the incorrectly discounted B&P. Still going to be a lot more unhappy then if they had gotten it right at the start. People wouldn't feel like they are losing something.
Edit below; the adjustment of the pricing fixed the inconsistencies of the auto/2.7 across the board and makes the WT pricing actually dead on comparatively as opposed to before when it made no sense to buy a WT over another tarted up trim. Similar on the OBX.
What you said is correct, but you CANNOT refute the fact that relative to Wildtrak the Badlands 2.7 got $1595 more expensive overnight.
Not sure why you are getting all hostile as I never refuted that, was just trying to help you understand the math error you made and to prevent it from confusing other people, but since it seems important to you; the adding of the $1595 cost for the automatic transmission has increased the cost in the B&P by $1595 overnight.
 
 


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