moving the seat back 2 inchs is using the term reclining very loosely..Rear seat recline .. only 1 notch of adjustment
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moving the seat back 2 inchs is using the term reclining very loosely..Rear seat recline .. only 1 notch of adjustment
If you think that's a huge fail, have you seen the 3rd row seats?! Ford really screwed the pooch on that. Not sure how they expect me to travel with 7 people in comfort in the Bronco. Complete fail. Considering how important 3rd rows are to people, its incredible they basically just phoned it in on the Bronco.... it's like they had their priorities all wrong.The back seats are a huge fail. They have a very upright position to begin with, and the “recline” is comical. Airplane seats recline more than these. Then add on the strange stadium seating thing going on, very awkward cramped second row.
Backseat Comparison: That's very helpful, thanks! The 2-door 1990's full size Broncos didn't have a rear seat recline that i can remember, but it was a huge seat that folded as one unit; this one has two folding sections. The 1990's seat unit when folded protruded into the space, like a bulkhead, making the seatless cargo area smaller but it was massive due to the wideness--it was basically a chopped F150. The 1990's bulkhead-style seat also impeded on the reclinability of the front seats, cramping leg room for us tall drivers.Here is a picture with and without recline of the rear seats.
Its out by LSU campus, yes gotta pre register. I'm gonna edit this post and add linkWhere in Baton Rouge is a Bronco event? I would like to go. Is pre-registration required?
You said you wanted a 1960s redesign you got it -FordNo cupholders, no recline, no rear AC.
Good job, good effort.
Everything in new vehicles and commercial airliners is lighter, thinner, narrower in order to both lighten the vehicle but also to get all the other good stuff in there while meeting ever-stringent mileage/emissions laws. I think the design is clever and maximizes the available space in this size of vehicle.Backseat Comparison:
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The folded 2021 Bronco rear seat works differently than the 1990's Big Bronco. It collapses down to the floor, so that cargo goes on top of it instead of up to it. That may make up for the lack of comparable interior folded seat floor space. The problem with the new design is in how that engineering was accomplished (it appears).
1. The seat back and bottom seem thin, which means less foam and less structure, which may make them less comfortable, or wear out quicker;
2. Because the seats fold down, collapsing to the floor, you cant have any permanent storage under the rear seat, like on my current F150.
3. In order to fit the pieces of the collapsing rear seat, the folded units are higher than the floor of the seatless rear cargo area, which is not flat, but has two levels. It's possible that the prototype rear floor sliding tailgate option will have the benefit of leveling the two-step floor. Unfortunately, the doors and/or the roof panels dont fit in the back with the sliding tailgate reducing floor height. Personally, the back of my bronco will be too full of "stuff" to ever store doors or panels.
Finally, l would rather have a different rear seat design, with two independent rear seats with a space (or floor console) between them. This car is too narrow for beach umbrellas and folding camp chairs that both will fit sidewise in a pickup truck. So a longer space is needed to lay down long objects, between the seats. This makes it a 4 passenger vehicle!
Of course, we'll know when we get it! Having owned two successive Broncos in the decade of the 1990's, I thought I'd ruminate on the differences with rear seating after seeing this excellent recline photo post. Attached photo: 1994, Race Point, Cape Cod.
Anyone have some insight on this? Hope the 2Door backseats also recline…Is this only on the 4-door? Or does the 2-door get the LazyBoy treatment, too?