BRONCO RAPTOR vs WALL OF DOOM!

Okay, I think you should hit it. I think you should hit it really hard with your purse. I think it'll do it. What's up, Light Bright Nation? What is going on, guys? Do we have a video for you today. As you can see, not only is the Demon Child home where it belongs. Finally. I went and picked up a Bronco Raptor. We sold the blue Bad Squatch. Let's just not even get into that. It's sold. It's gone. We've gone over why we didn't like it. We hated it. The Raptor, on the other hand, oh my god. Amazing so far. Amazing. And we haven't rock crawled it yet. We haven't. This is the first time today. I've only had it a day, 24 hours. Today, though, we're taking it off road. I do want to reiterate, this video is not a comparison video in any way, shape, or form, period, end of story. This video is mostly about the Bronco Raptor today because we want to see what it's freaking capable of and see if it's way better, fingers crossed, than our Badlands Sasquatch was. But the Demon Child is finally home. So we're not going to leave it at home. We're going to bring it out, too, and rip it around and have some fun in it while we're doing all this. Yeah. Just because why wouldn't we? And we kind of needed a recovery vehicle. Just in case. Hopefully not. I don't know. We have no idea. I'm sure people are testing it, but from what we've seen, no one's really out beating the ---- out of these guys. There's one guy in Arizona. I don't know if he has a YouTube channel or not, but he had it for like two weeks, and he's been out every single day. So we want to go beat the crap out of it. We want to see what it's capable of. And it is stock other than some Nitto Recon Grapplers. That's it. That's the only thing we've done. If you've watched the videos, it's bone stock. All it has are 37-inch Nittos on it now instead of the BFGs. I did put a flag mount on it. Oh, yeah. It has a flag mount, so it can legally be out there. Oh, we removed the steps that came on it because screw those. And I removed the fog lights so that we have more tire space on the front bumper. And I don't want to crush those. Who knows how it will look. But we haven't added, modified, strengthened, done anything else to anything else. OK, I'm excited. We have high hopes. So first things first. Oh, we're at a playground. We're at Sand Hollow State Park, which is a giant playground for us. And before we do anything else, we want to get the Bronco Raptor just a little bit airborne. And I don't mean we want to jump it like 30 feet through the air or anything like that, but we want to take it through some super decent whoops and see how it handles as a ******* Bronco. OK, so Kevin says that I have to get inside the Bronco Raptor to experience this for myself. Yes, you do. So the question is, what is it? It's not like it's like our side by side, but it's not like a side by side. How much does this weigh? 5,700 pounds. So it's like a 6,000 pound side by side. Yeah, sort of. I mean, it does well. Like it takes it. How well does it take it, though? I mean, OK, my problem is I'm wincing because I'm waiting for like, because you're waiting for the second to last one throws you and you're waiting for it to go wham. And it doesn't. So like you're wincing waiting to get your seatbelt. I am. I'm like so. So just film us. It feels great. It doesn't bottom out. Just go. It feels great. It's just hilarious. You're doing this in a stock vehicle. I try not to do that again. Oh, God. See, it stays flat. I know you're waiting for. I know, I know, I know. Waiting for something bad to happen, right? That's the only way to describe it is in a jeep or solid axle vehicle. If you came up on that at that speed, you'd be like, oh, actually was really smooth, though. So how good or bad does that feel? Honestly, significantly better than I was expecting. And I know this is dumb, but most of you guys know if you follow our channel, we sold our last Bronco because we freaking, it was a Badlands with a Sasquatch package. We hated it. The interior. Everything made noise. Everything creaked. Everything rattled. Everything buzzed. The QC on it sucked. This has a crossbar that the other one didn't have. I don't know if that helps or not, but I will say going through jumps like there's nothing noisy inside. Okay, ready? We're gonna go this way. We're going the other direction. How good is that? It's really good, actually. It's really good. Oh, wait, there's more bumps down here. Let's do this one really quick. I like how we just like the demon child just like parked over there with the keys in it. Happy birthday, someone. No, I'm just kidding. I mean, we're working it. Okay. It's holy. Wow. This is way more comfortable right now. This is the first time my wife has ever told me it feels really good. Okay, so the seatbelts normally when you pull them all the way out, they will lock and ratchet back. This doesn't. So if you move your seat back, right? Lock it. And then move your seat back forward. It's an electric seat. Oh, come on. Yeah, can you breathe right now? Yeah, but I want to be locked in. Pro tip, though. Pro tip. So normally when you pull the seatbelt all the way out, though. Anyway, all right, we're going back through this. I am going to destroy this. This Bronco. Jeez. How fast was that? 65. I'm air down a lot. So I don't want to make sure it's sidewalk. Yeah. All right. Okay, back through the whoops section. Through the whoops. You know what? We're not doing this justice. You're making this seem terrible. I swear to God, it's smoother than the videos making it seem. My hand flew up and hit the ceiling and I dropped the. I'm sorry. We're professional YouTubers. How do we not? Just hold on, hold on, hold on. Okay, re-watching the video. One thing I didn't notice, I'm wincing a lot like I'm going. But it's exactly what Kevin said. I'm not wincing because of the impact. I'm wincing in anticipation for an impact that. Doesn't happen. Isn't happening. So it's more out of like instinct that I'm like, oh. Like this is going to hurt. Like we were racing a bomber and you drive jeeps. And you don't do that. Most of our stuff is solid axle minus the side by side. And again, this is not a side-by-side, right? So in a full-size rig, you come up on a bump like that. You're definitely expecting much worse. Okay. Now that we've tested the Raptor's Baja capabilities, at least a little bit. I'm sure we've got plenty more in store for you guys. Kevin wants to take it rock crawling. So we've come out to this little rocky playground, which we've actually taken our jeeps out to plenty of times. It's got a bunch of little fun obstacles throughout this whole place. Well, we're going to play with that too. We're going to play with the Demon Child. But we also want to see how the Bronco Raptor does in the rocks. I'm going to try to keep Kevin from smashing those factory sliders while we're in the rocks playing around. Just because I have a feeling they're going to be just as terrible as the factory JL sliders. Oh, let me turn off the parking assist or the parking warning. It's like beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. When you go into rock crawl mode, you think of it automatically. Turn off your sensors. I'm really excited for this because this is like some of the first, I think, videos online of going to be somebody actually testing it that's not a Ford-approved proving ground thing. I don't know about this. This is like going for the gold right off the bat because this is normally 38s and up and solid axle with flex and proper rock sliders. I really hope we don't slip into that crack and hit the door. Let's just go. All right. Let's just figure it out. Do me a favor. Yeah. Please. What? Please, please do not body damage the Bronco on its first outing. I don't drive IFS either. This is completely new territory for me. We're just, we'll go. We'll feel it out and I'll help you if I need to. Okay. Also, we're on all terrains. Yeah, so these are the Nitto Recon Grapplers. So they're technically an all-terrain tire still. Not a mud terrain. I don't know how the traction. This, yeah, I don't know. This obstacle is going to be interesting. It's fine though. I have no steering because... Oh, and there's no assist. No. I mean, just maybe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're good right there. Right there. You're fine. What? You're making the weirdest noises. I know, but I'm so unsure because this is new. Oh, man. I mean, you're good still. You're good still. Just don't fall down into the crack. Keep your, yeah, keep her a little straight. You can go a little driver if you need to. Hold on. You can come driver if you got to turn into that. Barely. Barely, slider. If it bites, you'll be fine. Just, oh my, what are you? Don't stop. Turn back, turn back, turn back. Oh, come on. Can you, okay, question. Are you comfortable bumping it a little bit? Yeah. Okay, hold on. This is the, literally, this is the first time the tires have been off-road too. Yes, yes. No, you were there. It cut power. Oh, a nanny kicked on? Right there, yeah. So I think what happened was I'm on the brake and gas, and I don't think it lets you hit the brake and gas at the same time. It doesn't like you two-footing? No, which sucks because, yeah. I mean, that's how you have to rock crawl. That's how I drive. Yeah. Well, that was close though. Third time's a charm. Yes, yes, no, no. Did it kill power again? No. So we heard a clicking noise, so we let off. Dang it, because you were up. You were totally up. No. Dang it. That, you were, you had it. If you'd stayed in in another second, you would have been fine. Okay, be careful. Yes, victory, victory. Sweet victory is ours. All right, yeah, there you go. Yep, yep. So that front driver tire definitely pogo-sticked off the ground a couple of times. Didn't feel it, but it's solid. It stayed very stable. It's very stable. Yeah, the body stayed pretty flat, despite that coming in. If you can go up that, and I really think obviously with like mud terrains or something like that, it's made for grip. Oh, easier, it'd be cut easier. Well, I wonder if it could crawl it, or am I used to solid axle lifting tire and be able to crawl where this doesn't want to do that, which is why it wouldn't crawl that right front. Yeah. So I guess you just have to learn how to bump a little bit. But the fact that you can bump it up, it's really hard. So it's really hard to explain. I say I, we had very little faith in our Badlands Sasquatch. Yeah. Because the steering and the tie rods, it's a known issue. People were snapping them left and right. There's a Jeep trying to go up there right now. Yeah, I know. Jeep's actually trying to go up the same obstacle. But it's weird in this, we know everything's been beefed up at least a little bit. It gives you, yeah, he's struggling too. Yeah, but it gives you a little bit more confidence for sure to send it up something without worrying about something snapping. You still have to be careful. You still have to know your rig and know how to drive well. Your driver mod is the greatest tool you can have in your tool belt. But it made it. We're trying the Jeep. Again, zero comparison whatsoever. This thing has 840 horsepower demon engine, 40 inch tires, coil overs. Yeah. Also, we've never wheeled it before, so. There she goes. Also, brand new tires. This is the first trail these tires have been on too. Yep, yep, yep. Oh my God. So you're on a totally different line than you were in the Bronco, but it's fine. I would stay pretty straight. Yeah, just come back down. You're going to crawl. Yeah, straight out. There you go. More entertaining than I was expecting. Honestly, yeah, he had the tire in the crevice the whole time. Sick. You know, it's funny. I'm pretty sure that tire pulled way higher than the Bronco tire did. Different line. Totally different line, but still funny to watch. But it just shows you the same obstacle. Just two, like, literally two different lines. Two different rigs. I feel more confident in this. I mean, this is built, right? This is in stock. But I just feel more confident in Jeep because I have so much seat time. Just more seat time in a Jeep, you know? But honestly, the Bronco felt perfectly fine. The only thing I'm worried about is like, oh man, if I bump it, am I going to break something? Am I going to, like, is it going to take this abuse? But we're willing the Raptor stock first on purpose because we don't have as much faith in it as a solid axle as far as strength goes. But we have significantly more faith in it than we did our old Bronco. So we're going to give it a go. Our goal is ultimately to do exactly with that thing that we did, not with this Jeep, but with the stepchild and just beat the piss out of it and improve it as we go along. The difference is we're not building this to be a rock crawler. We said that from the get-go when we talked about wanting to own a Bronco and buy a Bronco. This is not what you start with if you want to build a rock crawler. This is what you start with if you want to build a badass desert-running Baja monster. I think it's going to be the best all-purpose vehicle ever. Kevin believes, and I'm not far behind him, that overall that Bronco Raptor might be the best overall off-roading vehicle ever in terms of it will perform the best at almost everything. So on-road handling, high-speed handling, in the deserts, in the whoops, in the washboard. It won't perform as well as a Wrangler in the rocks, but that's about it as far as not performing as good as something else. But you can build it to probably wheel where most people would never even put a tire on anyways. We're just a little bit different. We find the limits of our vehicles. 99.9% of all people who off-road will never find the actual limits of their vehicles. Them as a driver, that's what limits their capabilities off-road or how far they can go off-road. I think this is more than capable than most people will ever venture. That was super stable actually. I thought it might, but it didn't. We need something a little harder. Like that rock? It is so wide. You're good, come slow. No, don't hit the fender. Barely booped it. Want to squeeze through that? I mean, if you can squeeze into those pants, I'm pretty sure we can squeeze through this. Oh my god, can it go? It's so dumb. Faster. Yeah, keep coming. Straight, straight, straight, straight, straight. Right there. A little more driving. Yeah. Right side for just a second, but then it's going to come back down. Coming down the front. Now you got to make that really tight 90-degree. Looks a little bit sketchy for this. I mean, do you want to do that one instead? I think it'll definitely, with no doubt, do that one. I think it can do this one. I think it's just gonna be a lot sketchier. Oh, put tires on it and let's see how it feels. It might be totally fine. There you go, yep. Just the line. Okay, see? I was totally wrong. That was easy. We'll come back down. Let's do this one now. I just felt the back left pull off the ground. And it just, it didn't, it like pulls it off the ground. I almost didn't, I didn't feel it until I felt it touch back down. I didn't know it was off the ground until I felt the tire touch back to the ground. I'm like, holy crap. This thing is good. I'm blown away. I am utterly impressed. I am blown away. At a stock, like at a stock vehicle. I'm, I'm mad I paid this much for it, but I'm happy I bought it. No, I don't, I don't know. Like, it's so good. I don't think I care anymore. I will say I do still care. Yep, yep, yep. Yeah, right there, yeah. Your back end's gonna do some funky stuff. There she goes. Yeah, yeah. That was actually really good. That was impressive. Okay, just for giggles. Put tires on the wall of doom. And just see how it feels. Also see where that spare tire and the rear bumper end up going. Yeah, it's dug, it's dug out enough that you won't scrape the spare. Just throw it in reverse quick if you need, I guess. Well, it doesn't let me go from manual to reverse. Oh, okay, I can hit neutral. You hit neutral, it's not reverse. Yeah. I'm just worried of it cutting power or something like that on you and f***ing you up mid-flight. Yeah, I'm just curious. So what he's saying is it won't... Obviously, you can't go from the manual mode into reverse. It won't let you go from drive straight to reverse either. Wait, didn't the other Bronco let you go into reverse? You just have to hit it hard? Like hard enough? Yeah, that's what I'm doing. Anyways, going from drive to reverse is not easy. I mean, it looks like it's going... The front end will probably get light. I just don't know how light. That's the question. Whatever you're comfortable with. Yeah, it was your tow hitch. It's fine, maybe. It was planted. Very planted. Yeah. But I mean, like the sticker says, you gotta hit it, so... I know. I know, it's your call. Yeah. I think you should hit it. I think you should hit it really hard with your purse. I think it'll do it. It got a little hoppy. More initial run-up? I mean, probably. Jay, it was there. I think that was up. I was... that was close. You know it feels sketchy when Kevin's making that noise. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! Moe! I didn't like the... Hop is scary, man. Once you start hopping is where it bends the tie rod. So I was trying... So trying to modulate the throttle... To minimize the hop, but still make it up. I did it! Okay, so I can say with utter confidence, we are absolutely the first stock Bronco Raptor to send it up the wall of doom successfully. Oh yeah, for sure. That's... For sure. Pretty insane. That's pretty insane. Other than the hopping, because obviously... That's what I was trying to get away from. Yeah, but that's in any type of vehicle. Once the wheels start to hop like that, that's when you break s***. But outside of that, did it feel super... I know, the seatbelt. Okay, fine. I'm going, I'm going. You don't want to talk to me. Okay! I want to hear the ding. Aside from that, like, did it feel stable-ish? The wheelbase was just long enough. I feel like if the front was cresting, and like the back wasn't dipping, and then the front, like, so the front was cresting. So wheelbase-wise, it was very stable. I was more, in my head, worried about... About the fact that this is a 24-hour-old vehicle that's not even registered. So this is all stock geometry. Yes. So I'm wondering if I'm allowed to bounce, because it's all within... Probably to a point. Right, but it's all within its stock... It's all within... Probably to a point, I would still limit the bouncing. Well... Because that's how you break s***. It doesn't matter how good the geometry is, that is how you break stuff. Yes. Anyways, good job. I'm... I'm gonna stand ready. And that's that. Holy crap. Dude, clearly, we were enjoying the Bronco Raptor so much so that we kind of didn't drive the Demon Child like we were planning on driving it. You've seen the Jeep go over stuff. That's true. We've done a million things in Jeeps. Obviously, the Demon Child is new. We haven't really wheeled it yet, but don't worry, there will be plenty more Demon content coming soon. But the Raptor was the star of the show today. We told you it was kind of going to be from the beginning, but like, color us impressed. Yes, I... Thoroughly impressed. And... Very. I just want to point out the utter silence inside the Bronco compared to the not-utter silence on on-road driving... In the Bad Squatch. On our Bad Squatch. As far as quality control goes... Right off the bat, this is already a hundred times better. Still don't think that it's worth $150,000. I do. Kevin and I might disagree on that. I don't think it's worth that much, but is it worth its MSRP? Hell yeah. Oh, okay. Instantly. It's worth its MSRP. It's absolutely worth its MSRP. Let's go eat. Kevin was telling me, and I'm going to call him out right now. He's saying, arguably, though, he thinks the Bronco Raptor, overall, in terms of like all aspects, when you just look at everything all at the same time, he thinks, overall, the Bronco Raptor is a better overall vehicle than a stock... No, than anything else. Than anything else, including a stock Rubicon. And I would venture to say that that would no problem keep up with a Rubicon Exon. Any day of the week, that would keep up with anything Jeep has to offer. Stock for stock. That could keep up with anything. Even, I would say, even a Rubicon on 37s. I think 37 for 37. I think that keeps up with anything that Jeep can do. I think so. How many times will it do it? I don't know, but it does feel way more robust. I disagree. I think if you're driving it, or if I'm driving it, I think you could take a Wrangler further. Over and over and over and over again. Definitely. But I think you could take a Wrangler further. However, for 99.9999 million percent of the population, with the exception of extreme off-roaders like us, that will go as far as they, anyone would ever be willing to take their Rubicon. Both of them would want to stop at the point. Most people, when they go off-road, they could take the Raptor anywhere. They would take a Wrangler. Anyways, we're going to go eat. We're going to go get food and water and drinks because we didn't bring any with us in the desert. 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