{"id":36573,"date":"2026-08-22T08:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36573"},"modified":"2026-08-23T08:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T12:37:51","slug":"payne-livin-large-in-the-bronco-rtr-rovr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/payne-livin-large-in-the-bronco-rtr-rovr","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Livin’ large in the Bronco RTR ROVR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Made<\/p>\n

Made in America. The 2025 Ford Bronco RTR ROVR starts as a Bronco Badlands made in Wayne, then gets upgraded by RTR’s shop in North Carolina.<\/em><\/div>\n

Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n

Holly<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 In addition to capturing multiple Formula Drift championships in a Ford Mustang, Vaughn Gittin Jr. has made a name for himself as one of America\u2019s top off-road racers, winning class victories at the Baja 1000 and King of Hammers in a Ford Bronco. The self-described \u201cfun-haver\u201d is one of the most engaging, outsized personalities in motorsports.<\/p>\n

My purple and aqua Mystichrome-painted, 37-inch-tire, dirt-kicking Bronco RTR ROVR tester from his Ready to Rock mod shop is infused with Gittin\u2019s DNA.<\/p>\n

RTR is responsible for Ford\u2019s forthcoming in-house Bronco and Mustang RTR models, but the North Carolina-based company continue to make its own, dealer-installed mods that are fully covered by Ford warranty. ROVR is one of those packages, and my Bronco Badlands-modified fun-haver was loaded to the gunwale.<\/p>\n

The great thing about off-road performance vehicles, of course, is you don\u2019t have to travel all the way to Drummond Island in the Upper Peninsula (117 miles of trails) or legendary Moab, Utah, to be a fun-haver.<\/p>\n

Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Made in America. The 2025 Ford Bronco RTR ROVR starts as a Bronco Badlands made in Wayne, then gets upgraded by RTR’s shop in North Carolina. Henry Payne, The Detroit News Holly\u00a0\u2014 In addition to capturing multiple Formula Drift championships in a Ford Mustang, Vaughn Gittin Jr. has made a name for himself as one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36574,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36573\/revisions\/36574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}