Manual all the way. Ford did screw themselves out of extra money. For not offering the v6 with the manual
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Scary, that sounds like a page right out of my life experience of ordering our new Bronco. Right down to the part where she can drive a manual. Mine can, but she won't unless the world is coming to an end. Did your wife, and mine get together to hatch this plan? I knew I would be ordering an auto no matter the engine size. We'll use ours on long road trips, and certainly don't want a manual when I hit that inevitable 5 miles traffic jam. We haven't failed to hit one yet in the last 10 years of road trips, and I don't expect too miss one on our Bronco trips. I'm just mot that lucky.Wife decided she wanted the auto. Yes, she can drive a manual. She also chose the color. Because of that, she was all in. I chose everything else. Fair enough...
57/42 I was pretty damn close.This website will be 60/40. Real world will be 90/10
Same here. I really could care less what engine I get, anything from a Pinto engine up to a supercharged V-8 is fine by me. As long as it has a stick shift.If the Bronco didn't have a Stick Shift I would not even have considered it.
Mine was a Schwinn Fastback......Right hand says, "manual!". Left leg says, "Automatic!"
Right leg is busy no matter what, and left hand is practicing old-timey turn signals.
For this daily driver, left leg wins.
With 4.7 gears, I'm looking forward to 10th gear, to see if I can crack 19 mpg in steady driving. . .
Besides, I might like the Bronco to be the last conveyance I buy. The first one was also a 10-speed. $70 at Zayre, in 1973. Sweet ride for a 12 year-old paper route tycoon.
Schwinn was BIG money. Note I spelled 'tycoon' with a lower case t. I settled for a Columbia. It taught me how to take machines apart. About the third time through I learned how to put things back together.Mine was a Schwinn Fastback......
This is what Toyota does. In order to get the stick on a Tacoma you have to go up three packages, and have to get 4WD as well. (and the largest engine)Ford should have only offered the manual with the 2.7l making everyone who wants a manual to pay up...
I have always wondered why car manufacturers treat manual transmissions as a bottom trim option. If they treated a manual as a premium option they could make bank, as for many of us, a manual is non-negotiable. 2.3 auto only is base, 2.7 with auto is $1800, 2.7 with manual is $5,000. I would pay it.Ford should have only offered the manual with the 2.7l making everyone who wants a manual to pay up...like having to go to Badlands just to get the mid, high, or lux. Make the 2.7l manual with sasquatch happen Ford. I'm in!