Took delivery of my Area 51 Bronco Raptor - 80/20 on looks but 100% on performance

Picked my A51 Raptor yesterday. Wow the ride is impressive - was worried about the width but didn’t notice the difference much from my ‘21 BadSquatch here on SoCal roads. Feels pretty easy to drive. Got my trailer hooked up and managed to stuff both in my garage. Squat is noticeably less than my ‘21. Gas mileage is noticeably worse - not surprising. It’s fun to play with the different Raptor settings and I’m looking forward to some trail testing later this week.
I forgot about something funny in the delivery process: one of my fender flares has a very small defect, when I opened the back pre-PDI, ford had tossed a new fender In the back!
I though that was pretty awesome

Out-F-Standing!!! Beautiful man! Can not wait for additional observations especially off road-which trail is first?

Thank you! Probably do a run up Thomas Mountain - near Lake Hemet. Need to get brake controller installed asap

AlexInSD said:

Picked my A51 Raptor yesterday. Wow the ride is impressive - was worried about the width but didn’t notice the difference much from my ‘21 BadSquatch here on SoCal roads. Feels pretty easy to drive. Got my trailer hooked up and managed to stuff both in my garage. Squat is noticeably less than my ‘21. Gas mileage is noticeably worse - not surprising. It’s fun to play with the different Raptor settings and I’m looking forward to some trail testing later this week.

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Agreed...

This may be the 1st Area51 Warthog delivery to a customer.

wait ... you have 2 Broncos and both are Area51s? Common man, live a little .. just joking

Congrats!

Nice rig! Appreciate the share and perspective.

AlexInSD said:

Picked my A51 Raptor yesterday. Wow the ride is impressive - was worried about the width but didn’t notice the difference much from my ‘21 BadSquatch here on SoCal roads. Feels pretty easy to drive. Got my trailer hooked up and managed to stuff both in my garage. Squat is noticeably less than my ‘21. Gas mileage is noticeably worse - not surprising. It’s fun to play with the different Raptor settings and I’m looking forward to some trail testing later this week.

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Looks great - congrats. Traded in my Badlands SAS for the Braptor (albeit weren’t the same color), as I couldn’t justify both. Enjoying driving the Braptor so much more than the Badlands (so far only on road), and once behind the wheel, agree with you that the width isn’t too noticeable.

I've seen a few Raptors they all look incredibly challenged, (Looks wise) this means (ugly) in a nice way ... (compared to a real Bronco which is a 4 door bronco in any trim level) I saw one in Green yesterday, it looked incredible I think it was all stock, in Green they look good for some reason !

Very nice. The fenders do not look bad with the Area 51. Some colors make the Raptor fenders look like Bushwacker flares and those things are the WORST.

Gtrekker said:

Agreed...

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Oh man the white looks good!

AlexInSD said:

Picked my A51 Raptor yesterday. Wow the ride is impressive - was worried about the width but didn’t notice the difference much from my ‘21 BadSquatch here on SoCal roads. Feels pretty easy to drive. Got my trailer hooked up and managed to stuff both in my garage. Squat is noticeably less than my ‘21. Gas mileage is noticeably worse - not surprising. It’s fun to play with the different Raptor settings and I’m looking forward to some trail testing later this week.

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Wow, looks pretty awesome. Will you be keeping the BadSquatch?

Also, I'm in San Marcos, hit me up !

4runner said:

I've seen a few Raptors they all look incredibly challenged, (Looks wise) this means (ugly) in a nice way ... (compared to a real Bronco which is a 4 door bronco in any trim level) I saw one in Green yesterday, it looked incredible I think it was all stock, in Green they look good for some reason !

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Only 4-door Broncos are real Broncos? Shots fired...

carrellslake said:

Only 4-door Broncos are real Broncos? Shots fired...

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Yep, there seems to be a lot of confusion on this forum a real bronco has 4 doors an old bronco has 2 doors !

Raptor911 said:

This may be the 1st Area51 Warthog delivery to a customer.

wait ... you have 2 Broncos and both are Area51s? Common man, live a little .. just joking

Congrats!

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“Warthog”???

Warthog is the internal name for the Bronco Raptor during development. I wish they would have kept that name.

spy photo 15 months ago

OCNORB1974 said:

“Warthog”???

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