2023 Bronco Wins KBB's 5-Year Cost to Own Award

[MikeOBronco]

Does seem a little premature, doesn't it.

The Bronco 5 year cost is very low because you don't have it for the first 2 1/2 years

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[John P.]

They’d be a lot more expensive to own if Ford actually had parts available for repairs.

 

[AZ_Liberty]

$4400 cost of maintenance? My past 3 cars, I ran to 200k+ and not sure I had $4400 in maintenance combined.

I put 187k on my last Expedition.

3 sets of tires = $3k easy
Brakes at lest 4 times at several hundred bucks. Probably more at 6000 that thing ate brakes pretty quickly.
Lets say we did the oil every 6000, at $40 that's about 1200

That was 15 years, not 5 though. And I lost track of how many of those stupid COP coils I replaced. God I hate those.

I also paid my mechanic to change the spark plugs at 120k because I was chicken-shit to do it myself.

 

[ram]

#1 in Offroad SUV subclass
#2 in overall midsize SUV class

https://www.kbb.com/new-cars/total-cost-of-ownership/

The new Bronco were relaunched in 2020-2021. Is it been five years already? Or is the data based on assumption and average calculation. Think KBB and Ford compliment and support each other well.Whatever I would still consider Bronco to the best.

 

[Dmesser92]

Is that because you'll have to wait five years to get one, therefore spending no money on payments or repairs?

 

[ramblinwreck]

Nope. Projections are not facts. And only good while vehicle is under warranty. And none of the costs you mentioned has anything to do with parts failure after 3yrs/36k. That will be astronomical. Things will and have failed. Precollision camera, $1200.00. Let’s revisit in 18-24 months.

Uhmm, you can tell exactly what average repair costs will be over 5 years/75k miles. Ford ESP is ~$1000. Do you really think they just make up the price of those things?

Either way, repairs are DWARFED by the cost of depreciation, fuel and maintenance. It is pretty much a rounding error.

 

[Area51BS]

Uhmm, you can tell exactly what average repair costs will be over 5 years/75k miles. Ford ESP is ~$1000. Do you really think they just make up the price of those things?

Either way, repairs are DWARFED by the cost of depreciation, fuel and maintenance. It is pretty much a rounding error.

No I think they give it some thought. Such as most owners will trade before extended warranty time expires. Not transferable unless paid in full. Many probably finance it with vehicle. So it quietly disappears I would assume. Either way I think the glitchy electronics on this thing will take it out of the projected top 5 cheapest to own.

 

[mx6bfast]

Obviously they didn’t use the granger maintenance plan costs.

 

[Steph]

$4400 cost of maintenance? My past 3 cars, I ran to 200k+ and not sure I had $4400 in maintenance combined.

I was thinking the same..

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