| Category | Your Build (and why) |
|---|
| 2 or 4 Door? | 2 Door as it should be. |
| Trim | Black Diamond as I will never use the Swaybar disco from Badlands |
| Color | Cyber Orange. Gotta be orange |
| Engine | 2.7 Overkill here but Black Diamond has Sport mode as most time will be on the street |
| Transmission | Auto Real offroaders know that a manual is NO BUENO |
| Base/Mid/High/Lux Package | Base |
| Sasquatched? | Heck YES! |
| Wheels | I want the stock Black Diamond, so I may have to find a trade partner |
| Tires | Whatever for now until I get some pizza cutters |
| Equipment Options (Interior) | upfitter switches, color matched interior grab handles to orange, cargo area locking divider thingy |
| Equipment Options (Exterior) | Winch, roof rack, tube doors with color match covers |
| Accessories | Oh, yeah, see above. Painted hard top door handles and front grill to wimbeldon white with a Cyber Orange Bronco and then a Wimbildon white hood stripe. Orange and Cream baby! Added Ford Performance Tune for the 2.7 because why not! |
Okay, so changes after B&P launched...
Trim flops to Base, Color Antimatter Blue, Options are upfitter switches, roof rack , All Weather Floor Liners and Tube Doors.
Pricing out a Black Diamond at 47K and a Badlands at 50K, I got the Base with the modular bumper, sound deadening and rock rails to 41K. the differences between the vehicles is not worth the 9K to me. I like cloth, and I wont let it get rained in so the extra interior and washout floor is a wash (PUN intended). I miss out on the up graded skid plates, but I can add those in after, and the swaybar disco, while nice is never going to be used really. I dont need the leather steering wheel either. The rear bumper on all of these vehicles looks bad, so that is a non starter too.
I am rolling out the bumper and rock rails then and I will get those aftermarket when I want to at some point as the modular front bumper doesnt look amazing, and I prefer a rock slider with a tube across the outside edge. The only down side is I cant get a tow package now on base, but still, for 39K once the bumpers and such are removed, I am happy. In the end, philosophically, its what I always wanted, a basic big engine, big suspension off road vehicle.