Rodeoflyer
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- Bert
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For dirt roads or rocks? That's insane. There is literally NO WAY a vehicle that sells for less than $100k will need zero mods.
Lets put it into perspective.. my Ram Powerwagon was $60k... you can get one pretty well optioned now for $50k (new). It STILL needs mods to be a decent, dependable, rock crawler... it straddles the fence pretty well.. It's heavy and has a long wheelbase but still needs mods to seriously play in the rocks. The rear driveshaft is aluminum, hangs low, and will get shredded. Everything on it is 3/4 ton tough though.. you're not going to break or bend an axle unless you jump it or bounce through a rock garden. The axles are like D60's.
The Ford Raptor (about $60k) can go really fast over dirt, but it completely out of it's element in rocks. It will break...
The Jeep JL does rocks really well.. kinda suck at high speed dirt roads unless you 'mojave' it with some good bypass shocks and the axles, while pretty good, still won't take massive abuse. It articulates well, has a short wheelbase, and solid f/r axles that are fairly stong.
This Bronco has to overcome all of that... I just don't see it happening for less than $50k (or even $80k) retail price.
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