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- Your Bronco Model
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You are exactly right. Neither the 2.3 nor the 2.7 are very fast performers in all the videos we have seen.I'm still wishing we'd get a good-old-fashioned V8 in the Bronco. People love to explain that smaller-displacement turbo engines give you better power efficiency and better performance at altitude. Then I see the test results showing the Bronco doing worse in both regards than the 5.7 HEMI in my Durango and I wonder what exactly the payoff is to these uber-complex dual-turbo engines that look like a bowl of spaghetti under the hood and will certainly give the owner some expensive repairs down the road.
Towing is extremely low, so no advantage to a turbo there either. As you said a 5.7 Hemi blew away the 2.7 at elevation, so no turbo advantage at elevation either. Turbos are certainly more finicky, expensive and difficult to repair, so that's a big negative off-road. The turbos certainly aren't proving to be very fuel efficient in the bronco. I would love a straight 6 or good ole V8 which would be slow, non fuel efficient just like the turbos but be easier/cheaper to work on and more reliable. The bronco appears to have taken all the bad of turbos and given us none of the good.
What reasons does anyone have for wanting anything other than a naturally aspirated engine in an off-roader? And does the bronco turbo engines deliver on any of those reasons (doesn't appear so)?
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