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I would hope so... but, I was referring to non-Manufacturer plated vehicles.
Beautiful picture!Finally picked it up, 9PM first night reservation.....
That what I ordered, minus the roof rack and with upgraded wheels. 2.3 manual. 10/31 production date.What’s your engine and transmission?Finally picked it up, 9PM first night reservation.....
2.3 manual. How old are you? The 2 Dr manual seems like the old man version
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I'm not retired yet but hopefully soon.
Plenty of power for me, mileage is great if your doing 30, got almost 22 mpg cruising thru Custer state park. Sadly mileage is horrendous doing 80 into a headwind. Don't know how if it was bad gas but that tank was less than 14 mpg.
Was a granger order, took the long way home, through Badlands, black hills, devils tower then home to Utah.
The granger option was well worth it to me despite the delay because Ford screwed granger and granger customers.
@Ford you should be rewarding dealers like granger. The only reason I didn't cancel was because of granger. They are building your customer base
Overall the bronco met expectations.
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nice, what roof rack platform is that?A week shy of having it for two months and I've really been enjoying it. I hope you are enjoying yours too.
I‘m 55, would rather have had the 2.7 but wanted the manual. I Just like to get everyone’s first impression. I’ve driven a 2.3 auto but haven’t got drive a manual.
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The 2.3L has plenty of power. Mine is an auto but with Squatch. Very drivable with plenty of pep. I just did my longest trip to date (5 hr round trip) and it is a good highway / back road cruiser. I drove a 2.3L BL 4dr with manual sometime last year and it drove real well. I like the manual...smoothest shifting modern manual I've driven in a long time.
I have 2 door Black diamond manual trans and it is perfect in my opinion. Very easy to shift and not too long of a throw length. I never drove a manual bronco before mine came in but I'm 100% happy I went manual and wouldn't change it for anything. Even off road the manual did great.
And I'm a rare young person that only drives manuals lol
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My 2 door Base on the left in the first picture and my buddies WildTrak on the right. We were both first month reservations, and his came in last January and mine in June.
It is pretty easy to drive, shifts are smooth. The ergonomics are perfect for me. The center arm rest is perfect, and keeps my hand from resting on the shifter (5-11, short legs, long torso, sit farther forward than most people).
Still getting used to it, at first I thought the engine braking sucked but then I realized the RPMS were still pretty low. I was going by sound and sound at 2000 rpm is similar to my subaru imprezza at 4000. The rpm bar didn't bother me, it registered as RPM to me when I glanced at it which is how I knew the rpms were low ; ). I get the hate for the RPM bar though, my imprezza has a digital bar gas gauge that just doesn't register to me as a gas gauge....
The crawl gear didn't feel as low as I expected. I think it may be tougher to drive off road than I expected.
I did have a couple of laggy responses on the highway. In 6th waiting for someone to pull right after passing a truck, noticed another semi coming up fast from behind, punched it after the first cars pulled right, nothing happened, downshifted to 5th punched it nothing happened for a few seconds. Guess the turbo had to spool? It was weird. Maybe I just needed to drop 2 gears. Once it spooled it took off though, a little too late for the semi behind me to not hit his brakes though...
Hopefully that is just a getting used to driving it thing. Probably should have been in 5th already waiting for the opening.
I'm definitely not sorry I got the manual.
Just got the notice of “vehicle built”. 2 door of course. Reservation holder since 8/20.
my dealer said no ADM but got into with him over “add-ons” such as interior protection, anti theft etc etc. I told him not interested in any add-on and he said it’s put on all cars and price is negotiable.
Any advice? Thank you!!
my dealer said no ADM but got into with him over “add-ons” such as interior protection, anti theft etc etc. I told him not interested in any add-on and he said it’s put on all cars and price is negotiable.
Any advice? Thank you!!
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Make sure you get nitrogen in your tires, too! I hate dealers that do this. My dealer at least asked if I wanted the interior protection to which I politely declined. Tell him you're allergic to the chemicals used in the interior protection and since they Bronco has yet to be delivered, it hasn't been applied yet....
Thanks to everyone who replied, haven’t driven a modern manual since 99’. Not a concern just wanted impressions.
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