Camping in a Bronco 4 Door + Measurements for Rear Sleeping Area

[mdepll]

What is just the rear cargo space depth ??

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[RBF 1401]

And the good news is, with a Bronco I can get a nice big-ass tent to throw in the back and get out of the little 2-man dome I use on my motorcycles

Heck, maybe a proper camp chair and a cot!

Livin' the dream!

Recently upgraded to sleeping on a cot after years of airbeds. It's the first cot I ever found that I liked (not the first one that I bought).

Next upgrade is one of the newfangled hydraulic rocking chairs.??

 

[Tortuga353]

Not ideal but I’ve car camped several times in my Tiguan. It is pretty comfortable.

Window screens for ventilation and inventor to charge devices.

 

[PhoenixM3]

This guy knows how to Bronco

You know it! If you can pull off a threesome in a Ford Fiesta, you know how to party.

 

[Mango&Moose]

"Adventures"

It's not his wife

 

[CanadianFord]

Take it from someone who goes on multi day excursions. I'd only sleep back there if I had to, I wouldn't plan on camping trip sleeping in the back. The primary reason is that the back seats don't fold down flat. Ford likely calls that 'flat', but it isn't flat enough to be comfortable sleeping. And the whole space will more cramped than you think.

 

[TexasBlaze]

Since both of you were sleeping in the back where did you put all your gear and stuff?

Hello from southern WV! These measurements are very welcome news and I for one am extremely happy with the dimensions with the rear seats on the 4 door models folded down. Even if we do have to slide the driver and front passenger seats forward a bit, this space will provide plenty enough room for 2 average height adults to sleep comfortably. My wife 5'2" and myself 6'0" used to sleep just fine when we would camp in our 2003 Honda Element, which had less room than the 4 door Bronco. We would slide the driver and front passenger seats all the way to the dash and use a 4" thick foam mattress cut to fit, which was wonderful. Granted, the Element had a completely flat rubberized cargo floor (hello BD or BL!) and the rear seats on an Element could either be unhooked from the clasps and attached to the grab handles, or removed completely quite easily. (Look up how Element used to handle this to see for yourself). Hopefully it won't be too difficult to remove the rear seats on either 2 or 4 door models (think I saw in another thread they are attached by several torx bolts). Anyway, with all doors closed and Ellie's clamshell tailgate closed, we slept quite soundly, especially when we would have a typical summer Southern WV thunderstorm, which is almost a guarantee on 4th of July weekends on the banks of the Greenbrier River. Will post pics of our mobile camping weekend Hilton once I am posting from my phone instead of tablet. We are Beyond excited for our 4 Door non Squatched Badlands with the gray MGV to hopefully arrive in time to relive more camping adventures (hopefully can take delivery by June 21)!

 

[TexasBlaze]

Best meme ever! LMFAO

 

[lrtexasman]

Take it from someone who goes on multi day excursions. I'd only sleep back there if I had to, I wouldn't plan on camping trip sleeping in the back. The primary reason is that the back seats don't fold down flat. Ford likely calls that 'flat', but it isn't flat enough to be comfortable sleeping. And the whole space will more cramped than you think.

It is flat when you add the pull out tailgate. It goes flush against the 2nd row when folded down

 

[Dlerojo]

It is flat when you add the pull out tailgate. It goes flush against the 2nd row when folded down

that removes the couple inch gap but the rear seats don’t fold completely flat. Almost but they have a slight incline.

 

[lrtexasman]

that removes the couple inch gap but the rear seats don’t fold completely flat. Almost but they have a slight incline.

They did better with it than I thought they would. One pic doesn’t have tray but shows how flat the seats lay. Better than the Bronco sport.

 

[mdepll]

They did better with it than I thought they would. One pic doesn’t have tray but shows how flat the seats lay. Better than the Bronco sport.

How deep is that cargo space ?

 

[CanadianFord]

It is flat when you add the pull out tailgate. It goes flush against the 2nd row when folded down

But to the back seats fold down truely flat?

 

[lrtexasman]

Look at the pics.

But to the back seats fold down truely flat?
check out the pics.

 

[JonChicago]

It's press releases like this that have me really close to pulling my reservation. Ford wants me to buy this car pretty much sight unseen and then puts out info about dimensions and capabilities that is close to useless.

Ford: Publish a photo with dimensions on it! 2 door and 4 door, seats up and seats down and leave the models at home (I know I don't look that handsome and also know that a Bronco won't change that). They obviously know what the dimensions of the rear area are to the millimeter but choose to put out this release stating that a 6.5 foot tall person can lie in the back inline with the vehicle yet the photo shows people doing that and hanging a foot out the back. Supposedly the diagonal sleeping position is 7.5 feet tall and they show a photo of a very average height person with zero room to spare. Give an intern a tape measure, a half hour, along both versions and be done with it.

Members of this forum have done a vastly better job of figuring out and educating me on dimensions, colors, options and pricing than any of Ford's material.

The marketing department's seeming need to dribble out info in the least comprehensible way possible isn't helping me buy this vehicle, it's frustrating me and making me think I will wait until I can see and touch what I'm dropping $40k on.

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