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Hello All,
Glad to be here, just doing the obligatory post to say hello as we just brought our '25 Bronco Raptor in Shelter Green home on the 23rd. Been busy ever since with learning everything and spending money on accessories and trinkets, as this is the first vehicle I've ever purchased that I didn't know everything about before buying.
We actually were not looking specifically for a Raptor model. We were interested in a "Bronco" but weren’t sure which one and the 0/0/0 deal Ford had going around and during Labor Day pulled us in.
We arrived at our selected dealer around 1pm proceeded to drive every model we thought was of interest and drove multiple two door and four door models of varying options/trim including a Sport. We were filling up the dealer's customer parking area with all our test drives and I'm sure the salesperson thought we were just spending a Saturday test driving vehicles with no intent on buying.
We still hadn't found that must have, but they had a red Badlands full optioned on the lot across the street, and they had two Raptors one in Shelter Green and one in Desert Sand. The GF loved the Badlands in Ruby Red, but loved the Raptor in Shelter Green as did I, but we really weren't considering the Raptor as an option as it was outside the 0/0/0 deal as was the '25 Badlands. But we discussed it further and broke the news to the salesman that we wanted to drive the Ruby Badlands and the Shelter Green Raptor.
The look on his face was priceless as at this point I know he thought we were just joy riding. What he didn't know is my previous salesperson was now on the finance team, and I had special ordered my '21 F-350 just before the covid and chip debacle (I was lucky as a month later everything was delayed and then nothing under MSRP for a long time) and my kids bought some other vehicles over the years from him.
He proceeded to go inside to ask permission expecting the "No they can't drive the Raptor today" and by this time it was after 4pm as well. He comes back out with a shocked face and say we'll bring over the Badlands and you can test drive that while we move all the other vehicles to get the Raptor out (it was fully barricaded).
Drove both and funny part was I had to stop and put $20 in fuel in the Raptor as the kid who moved it didn't tell anyone it had no fuel. Get back after driving the Raptor, asked him to give us a minute as we mulled it over (he's thinking we're walking) and proceeded to hand him the fuel receipt; that was fun. We do just that discussed options and colors and obviously we decided on the Raptor for a few reasons, but main one is Ford had dropped the price below MSRP and the price difference between the Ruby Badlands high option and the Raptor was not significant enough not to go the Raptor route.
Though we still are blown away at this level of optioned vehicle that there is no key memory or mirror/seat memory. I know and understand, what the point of the Raptor is, but it has everything else, just seems odd and annoying…
We broke the news to the poor kid as his mouth fell open, negotiated price and then the standard financial stuff. He's still thinking “they might want it, but they can't afford it” (I wasn't thinking we were buying that day and I wore some slopy shorts and sandals as it was a relax Saturday). The finance guy already knew and was just smiling at the kid in the "you have somethings to learn"... Paper work's almost done, salesman's face falls once again when we tell finance our down payment. Fun part was we got to banter about it all and he fully admitted that he didn't think we were buying since we asked about the 0/0/0 originally and that for sure we weren't going to get to test drive the Raptor let alone buy it. He say's “when I asked about test driving the Raptor,” I was told "just let them do what they want, and they don't need you with them". Apparently, dealer policy on the higher end Mustangs and Raptors is salesman must be in the vehicle and buyers fully vetted… not today kid. We all had a good laugh...
Anyhow, hope you've enjoyed my long-winded story and hope I can contribute here; and some of you may know my handle from one of the Super Duty sites. Cheers
Glad to be here, just doing the obligatory post to say hello as we just brought our '25 Bronco Raptor in Shelter Green home on the 23rd. Been busy ever since with learning everything and spending money on accessories and trinkets, as this is the first vehicle I've ever purchased that I didn't know everything about before buying.
We actually were not looking specifically for a Raptor model. We were interested in a "Bronco" but weren’t sure which one and the 0/0/0 deal Ford had going around and during Labor Day pulled us in.
We arrived at our selected dealer around 1pm proceeded to drive every model we thought was of interest and drove multiple two door and four door models of varying options/trim including a Sport. We were filling up the dealer's customer parking area with all our test drives and I'm sure the salesperson thought we were just spending a Saturday test driving vehicles with no intent on buying.
We still hadn't found that must have, but they had a red Badlands full optioned on the lot across the street, and they had two Raptors one in Shelter Green and one in Desert Sand. The GF loved the Badlands in Ruby Red, but loved the Raptor in Shelter Green as did I, but we really weren't considering the Raptor as an option as it was outside the 0/0/0 deal as was the '25 Badlands. But we discussed it further and broke the news to the salesman that we wanted to drive the Ruby Badlands and the Shelter Green Raptor.
The look on his face was priceless as at this point I know he thought we were just joy riding. What he didn't know is my previous salesperson was now on the finance team, and I had special ordered my '21 F-350 just before the covid and chip debacle (I was lucky as a month later everything was delayed and then nothing under MSRP for a long time) and my kids bought some other vehicles over the years from him.
He proceeded to go inside to ask permission expecting the "No they can't drive the Raptor today" and by this time it was after 4pm as well. He comes back out with a shocked face and say we'll bring over the Badlands and you can test drive that while we move all the other vehicles to get the Raptor out (it was fully barricaded).
Drove both and funny part was I had to stop and put $20 in fuel in the Raptor as the kid who moved it didn't tell anyone it had no fuel. Get back after driving the Raptor, asked him to give us a minute as we mulled it over (he's thinking we're walking) and proceeded to hand him the fuel receipt; that was fun. We do just that discussed options and colors and obviously we decided on the Raptor for a few reasons, but main one is Ford had dropped the price below MSRP and the price difference between the Ruby Badlands high option and the Raptor was not significant enough not to go the Raptor route.
Though we still are blown away at this level of optioned vehicle that there is no key memory or mirror/seat memory. I know and understand, what the point of the Raptor is, but it has everything else, just seems odd and annoying…
We broke the news to the poor kid as his mouth fell open, negotiated price and then the standard financial stuff. He's still thinking “they might want it, but they can't afford it” (I wasn't thinking we were buying that day and I wore some slopy shorts and sandals as it was a relax Saturday). The finance guy already knew and was just smiling at the kid in the "you have somethings to learn"... Paper work's almost done, salesman's face falls once again when we tell finance our down payment. Fun part was we got to banter about it all and he fully admitted that he didn't think we were buying since we asked about the 0/0/0 originally and that for sure we weren't going to get to test drive the Raptor let alone buy it. He say's “when I asked about test driving the Raptor,” I was told "just let them do what they want, and they don't need you with them". Apparently, dealer policy on the higher end Mustangs and Raptors is salesman must be in the vehicle and buyers fully vetted… not today kid. We all had a good laugh...
Anyhow, hope you've enjoyed my long-winded story and hope I can contribute here; and some of you may know my handle from one of the Super Duty sites. Cheers
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enjoy her! we love ours!
this is our 7th vehicle in the stable... Have her go drive one, the Rovers are nice, but I don't think they ride as well or are as special as the Bronco Raptor is.
