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Must be a Front Range thing. I just sort of pretend the eastern half of the state doesn't exist, and that keeps me happy in the mountains.

The removable roof is the major point keeping me out of a Bronco. Coincidentally, the new Ranger would be right up my alley.

That's definitely a Skydio drone. The DJI automated avoidance doesn't hold a candle to Skydio's autonomous navigation.

I think you're spot-on, and I'll go one step further. I plan on removing the stock rear pods because: they are super ugly rear speakers contribute very little to the front occupants' enjoyment. I'll upgrade the front kick panel/dash speakers and add a sub in the rear cargo area.

Rockford...Fosgate. Uh, ok. :rolleyes: In other news, the kick panel location has a cutout in the sheetmetal for a 6.5" round. Are you planning on cutting the sheetmetal to fit a 6x9?

Watching this guy lug the engine at 1900 RPM and generally short-shift while trying to "hustle" through the corners is just painful. First time driving a manual? Also, I'm really disliking the Bronco's tachometer.

Solution: design a metal, permanently-affixed roof. I never wanted a removable roof anyway! Plenty of off-road SUVs in history without a soft-top or removable hard top.

Amen. All this talk of "pre turbo" intercoolers and non-intercooled turbos in this thread is just making me wonder what planet (or decade) some posters are familiar with. Modern passenger vehicles with turbos have intercooled turbos. Turbo makes hot compressed air > intercooler cools it down...

Are you debating a Solid Axle Swap (SAS)? /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroney_sticker Monroney, broski.

I never thought I would be attracted to a white top on the new Bronco, but it looks great with this green. Thanks for the render.

When you're camping in your truck on the side of a mountain above the treeline at 12,000 feet, you think about it a lot more.

Honestly, a hidden, unadorned exhaust tip sounds appealing. With a big shiny tip, it’s just one more thing to have to keep clean (I’m expecting the ecoboost produces a fair amount of soot). I only care about how it sounds.

I should not be surprised at the number of “common sense experts” with no grasp of physics telling us the old wives tale about the rubber tires “helping,” and yet I am surprised.

Yeah man, I know this all too well. I miss my old WRX so much. Should have never sold it! Also, to pick a point, the WRX has a turbo as well and sounds way better than the NA Subaru boxers to me. The NA engines are just too harsh. Having the turbo in the way of the exhaust path helps take...

As so many others have pointed out, the tires on your vehicle are insulators...but so what -- lightning has enough voltage potential to jump miles of open air, so about 12 inches of rubber tire is going to provide exactly no obstacle. I parked next to a Defender 110 a couple days ago with a...

I go camping in my aluminum truck topper in the summer, and I don't worry about the (sometimes violent) thunderstorms we get up here in the mountains. In theory, the metal shell of the car body and truck topper should act like a Faraday cage if it was struck by lightning. How is that going to...

Do whatever you can to make it sound like an old WRX with unequal-length headers and a Cobb exhaust ;)

I've never seen IWE expanded as "Individual Wheel Engagement," but it certainly sounds better than "Integrated Wheel Ends"! An acronym only an automaker could come up with...

I appreciate the intel, but have you also considered impacts from the seat height? Getting the seat close to the pedals fore/aft is great but it's not the whole story. I test drove a manual Forester about 5 years ago: when I was seated close enough to fully depress the clutch, the high seat...