I think they knocked it out of the park with this. Noticed some shade they threw at Jeep like with the body attached mirrors and no cross bar with the roof off.
I'd say the Bronco is a home run, that two door looks fantastic. I'm not sold on the engine choices but otherwise yes please. The sport still gets a giant MEH from me.
It looks like the Sport is far more capable than I had expected, nothing exciting, but more than Jeep lipstick on small crossovers like the Renegade and Compass are. It'll be interesting to see what the aftermarket can do with the little unibody Sport.
Wow. Impressive. Even the color options are solid. Jeep can throw all the Hellcat motors they want between the frame rails, but this is new and fresh and dare I say much better looking. Ford has a serious hit here.
They're nervous and rightfully so...I had no idea that the Bronco would bring it like this. Only thing Jeep can do right now is a 392 or HC variant...or they could do that 3 row that they've been playing will they, won't they for a while.
IMHO a 5.7L HEMI in all trims + gladiator is enough to KEEP FCA "ahead"
the Rivian and Hummer are notcompetition at all as they are WAY more expensive like a 911 is NOT competition to a Camaro
I have to say the Bronco way exceeded even my already informed insider expectations. Seeing it in the full 360 made me absolutely smitten. It's a rare thing to see such an authentic rebirth of an icon. The design is perfect, has to be the best looking SUV ever made. I want in so badly, even though I know the vehicle is absurd overkill. It's going to be a huge seller, should help usher in a new rejection of the bland crossover commodity product. It's really the design reset I've been waiting for.
Bronco Sport will be hard for people to categorize, but it largely exists in on its own. It may directly mirror Compass or Trailblazer in footprint dimensions (not volume), but it's very different in pricing and customer appeal. Bronco Sport is surprisingly similar to EcoSport in passenger dimensions, but with WAY more cargo. EcoSport is actually very well packaged for it's short dimensions thanks to its height, which is the same story with EcoSport. People forget height is more important than footprint in an SUV.
Not too many places to rock crawl in Ohio. Something like the Sport is needed for the rest of us. I am surprised how much I like this too. So the size is Escape based, but in an overlay image, it is taller with more interior headroom through it's square-ish design. Plenty of go with the 2T engine.
IM a Wrangler Unlimited owner and Jeep fan - the Bronco looks great and does 1 thing better that I wish Jeep would fix - a simple nice looking interior. The Wranglers have continued to move more towards a "sedan" type vibe on the inside vs a more rugged technology layout. The Bronco wins hands down on the interior part for me. Everything else is a tie - Jeep still looks great to me on the outside and its clear the Bronco took alot of cues from it
Looks like Ford put out a pretty good effort. It's going to take a while for it to get up to Jeeps' level, but it's definitely a solid attempt. I like it.
Blazer and Hummer are not going to be competitors to this as far as I can tell.
I think problems with your fleet needs to start appearing. And then you will go into a rage and say, if I have to spend another coin on this vehicle, I am trading it in...
And lo and behold, a week and a half later, it will need money.. who knew..
What impresses me most about the Bronco is that it looks like Ford drove a Jeep, lived with it for a while and said:
what works?
What doesn't work?
How can we improve on what works?
Because of this it looks like we ended up with a product looks like they put their whole ass into it. They didn't just get spied driving the two (Bronco mules and production Wranglers) for show and put out a product that really didn't offer much more than it's competitor other than a big ass OLED on the dash while ignoring everything else. They took the concept of a Jeep and improved/cribbed from it in totality. Very impressive.
I think ur in the minority. We’re living in a wasteland of homogeneous looking vehicles. I applaud Bronco styling as I do other unique vehicles like some new Toyota’s and the entire Cadillac line. I don’t get an ‘80s vibe from bronco whatsoever
the 2.7 is a great engine. wonder what the jeep people will say about the IFS? a lot of the off road people say you dont get enough traction with ifs when crawling rocks because theres not the downward pressure a live axle would give.
IFS can do just fine on suspension travel. My 1993 EB Explorer 4-door had 19" of vertical travel from full compression to full droop. We never had a reliability issue in relation to the Jeeps. Of course, the fact that it had a RR Dana 35 front helped. For comparison, the Wrangler had a Dana 35 rear.
They both have their pluses and minuses. Because each front tire on the front works independently of the other, you get that advantage from the IFS along with a stationary diff, but the solid axle, because of the articulation, can get more downward travel. Look at it this way, as one tire goes up, it forces the other tire down, on the solid axle, however, your diff moves also. You can get as much travel on an IFS, but it takes very long arms to do it, or in the case of our TTB, very long radius arms.
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