Jesus Christ that article is poorly written. Let’s parse through the crap and get some facts:
Center stack: Unique screen for the Bronco we haven’t seen yet in other Ford vehicles. Has some standard Ford features such as 360° camera and auto start stop shutoff.
7-speed manual: As has been previously reported, the 7-speed will be a 6 speed plus an “L” or granny gear. New information about this in this article is that the “L” gear will be almost completely separate from the other gears and possibly will only be available while in 4 wheel drive. This is just speculation though, but it sounds like shifting from “L” to 1st will be similar to shifting out of reverse. (I’m curious how this gear will work. In my super tall geared wrangler (3.21/2.7:1 transfer case) 1st gear in 4lo can be super jerky. Not sure if gearing lower would help that or not)
Tire sizes: As has been discussed tire sizes means nothing without the full number. However, my guess would be they are referring to 255/70r/17 (32” same as a JL sport) or a 285/70r/17(33” same as a rubicon wrangler) this is not news in any way, the original frankenrangers sported 285/70r/17 tires. And the off-road prototypes have been sporting 315/70r/17 tires which are 34.5” tires.
Overall pretty trash “leak”
Center stack: Unique screen for the Bronco we haven’t seen yet in other Ford vehicles. Has some standard Ford features such as 360° camera and auto start stop shutoff.
7-speed manual: As has been previously reported, the 7-speed will be a 6 speed plus an “L” or granny gear. New information about this in this article is that the “L” gear will be almost completely separate from the other gears and possibly will only be available while in 4 wheel drive. This is just speculation though, but it sounds like shifting from “L” to 1st will be similar to shifting out of reverse. (I’m curious how this gear will work. In my super tall geared wrangler (3.21/2.7:1 transfer case) 1st gear in 4lo can be super jerky. Not sure if gearing lower would help that or not)
Tire sizes: As has been discussed tire sizes means nothing without the full number. However, my guess would be they are referring to 255/70r/17 (32” same as a JL sport) or a 285/70r/17(33” same as a rubicon wrangler) this is not news in any way, the original frankenrangers sported 285/70r/17 tires. And the off-road prototypes have been sporting 315/70r/17 tires which are 34.5” tires.
Overall pretty trash “leak”
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