Good thoughts on the seats. I have a '94 and the bench backseat lives on the floor of my garage lol. The folding of it only made sense if did the 2-fold where the bench was pivoted all the way forward. Even still I thought it was in the way too often and any place that more than 2 people were going with me they can just sit on the floor and hold onto the cooler! Almost makes it a 7-seaterBackseat 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.
The 2021 Bronco is narrower (to state the obvious), which may be why the current design is not a bulkhead but a collapsing design, meaning cargo can go over on top of it
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.
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