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Anyone with a family and Gear, or campers and overlanders, or towers or just anyone really should be concerned about the Bronco high weight and its likely low GVWR. The fact that the First edition can’t have a hitch, that Sasquatch can’t get a roof rack, and that a stock Badlands can’t either when you put the 2.7 on it tells a lot. It’s definitely not a height issue (can’t be for the hitch, or the low Badland on 33s). So it’s a weight issue.
I want to know the GVWR and payload or GVWR and curb weight for each trim so I can make the right decision when ordering. If you want too, then here is the solution:
Anybody with a Twitter account here, myself included, please ask Mr Levine about this. If he gets the question 50 times he will answer.
GVWR = curb weight + payload, so we need any combination of 2. For all trim and engine combinations.
example: can you please provide GVWR and curb weight for EACH trim and each engine combination? We need this before ordering. Thank you.
Edit:
For everyone to understand the problem, if the Bronco has a max GVWR of 6000 like many stated (because that’s the max by Wrangler class of vehicle for Ford to legally say the Bronco compete in the same class), then that means a FE 4 door 2.7 (which we already know weights 5320) has a payload of 680, or 40% less than a Corolla, or just enough for 4 small adults and no gear.
Edit 2:
Per Jeep official website https://www.jeep.com/wrangler/specs.html
A 2 door Rubicon has 1190 Lbs of payload and a 4 door Rubicon has 1351 Lbs.
From the yellow picture of a 2 door BL that shows 816 Lbs of payload (see page 11 of this thread), the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 2 door V6, which is famous in the overlanding community for its very poor payload, has 50% more payload than a similar 2D BL Bronco...
Wow.
Edit 3: page 14 we find out a 2D FE has 765 LBS of payload. A pretty bad number. A Bronco Sport FE has more payload than that
thanks all.
I want to know the GVWR and payload or GVWR and curb weight for each trim so I can make the right decision when ordering. If you want too, then here is the solution:
Anybody with a Twitter account here, myself included, please ask Mr Levine about this. If he gets the question 50 times he will answer.
GVWR = curb weight + payload, so we need any combination of 2. For all trim and engine combinations.
example: can you please provide GVWR and curb weight for EACH trim and each engine combination? We need this before ordering. Thank you.
Edit:
For everyone to understand the problem, if the Bronco has a max GVWR of 6000 like many stated (because that’s the max by Wrangler class of vehicle for Ford to legally say the Bronco compete in the same class), then that means a FE 4 door 2.7 (which we already know weights 5320) has a payload of 680, or 40% less than a Corolla, or just enough for 4 small adults and no gear.
Edit 2:
Per Jeep official website https://www.jeep.com/wrangler/specs.html
A 2 door Rubicon has 1190 Lbs of payload and a 4 door Rubicon has 1351 Lbs.
From the yellow picture of a 2 door BL that shows 816 Lbs of payload (see page 11 of this thread), the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 2 door V6, which is famous in the overlanding community for its very poor payload, has 50% more payload than a similar 2D BL Bronco...
Wow.
Edit 3: page 14 we find out a 2D FE has 765 LBS of payload. A pretty bad number. A Bronco Sport FE has more payload than that
thanks all.
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