Spied: Uncovered 2-door Bronco and Bronco Sport in the wild from overhead

[BroncoBuyer]

I can’t believe I got sucked into the shadowgate debate...
Y’all need to understand that it was late, I was tired, I had a few beers and with beer goggles on every topic starts to look acceptable enough to take on when it’s getting close to 1 in the morning.
Don’t act like you ain’t been there!! LOL!!

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[west]

RE: ShadowGate

I'm back on medication ... all good now ?

 

[Nickp]

So to get back on topic, pretty hilarious how many people I’ve seen comment on this picture that we aren’t getting a “real” Bronco. Do people not realize that the 1st gen Broncos are the “true” bronco? Everything after that is just a bobbed F-150. We want something UNIQUE.

 

[rmc523]

1st time posting, lurker since beginning of the year.
I think the drone like image is real. Whether the image was deliberately run through a sharpen & blurring session in Photoshop has some validity..

Anyway, i scrutinized the image to add some part lines in PS above Bronco.
My interpretation, of what seems like a wavy roof, and creased features just fwd of the rear wheel flare, and behind the fwd.
The Bronco R concept has a similar feature fwd of the aft wheel. unique to the 2-door?

Yeah, the roof is likely to have ribbing to give the panels extra strength.

On a side note, it'd be cool if Ford came up with removable sunroof panels - panels that had glass or something in them.

My question is. What’s up with how that roof meets that huge upper windshield frame? It’s almost as if the windshield frame overlaps the roof rather than the roof overlapping the frame.

One more thing. Don’t those mirrors look out of the way just enough to clear the doors opening? I’m wondering if they might have scrapped the moving mirrors idea.

It's likely just that the windshield frame wraps up and over the top, and the top nestles behind it, much like how Mustang works with its soft top:

There was a patent for the mirrors to move when the doors open, even though they're not attached to the doors.

Yeah, he knows that, he's suggesting they scrapped that.

 

[Nickp]

On a side note, it'd be cool if Ford came up with removable sunroof panels - panels that had glass or something in them.

They did a long time ago...

Side note: I love first gen explorers. Such cool vehicles but I get the impression they weren’t built too well. Still see second gen+ all over but the 1st gen I think all got destroyed by cash for clunkers or rusted away lol. I’ve considered building my rock crawler out of one... would be cool.

 

[Carolina Jim]

we aren’t getting a “real” Bronco

We're certainly getting the best that a major manufacturer (i.e. Ford) can legally produce. But the advent of CAD/CAM and process automation was supposed to enable cost-effective replication of the "classics"...think '57 Chevy or E-Type Jags...and legislation passed to facilitate that: "Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act of 2015".

That bill creates a separate set of rules for manufacturers selling 325 or less replica vehicles per year in the United States. These companies are permitted to sell complete vehicles without having to comply with some current NHTSA safety standards, and without going through expensive crash testing. However, the vehicles still need to comply with Environmental Protection Agency and/or California Air Resources Board emissions standards through the use of modern engine packages.

Regrettably that momentum seems to be stalled. But one can dream.

 

[@BadBlueBronco]

Yeah, the roof is likely to have ribbing to give the panels extra strength.

On a side note, it'd be cool if Ford came up with removable sunroof panels - panels that had glass or something in them.



It's likely just that the windshield frame wraps up and over the top, and the top nestles behind it, much like how Mustang works with its soft top:

Yeah, he knows that, he's suggesting they scrapped that.

It would be epic with they made them like the sun panels on the corvettes. They look Gloss black Paint from the outside but clear on the inside

 

[ice1200s]

Kinda, sorta reminds me of the Scout II.

 

[North7]

Flat Moon theory confirmed

On a serious note, as a former engineer at Collins Aerospace, I was able to hear a presentation from the retired engineers on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. They took us through all the things they had to do to get the video link for the moon broadcast over the Collins Radio equipment. The level of difficulty to do this in the 1960's led to some fascinating engineering, more at these links for you techy types.

"The same radio lines carrying the infamous video of Neil Armstrong’s first step also carried critical positioning and engine data that orchestrated the entire event."
https://www.collinsaerospace.com/newsroom/Stories/2019/07/apollo-11-redefining-space-exploration
https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/apollo-11s-corridor-connection
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/...collins-radios-role-in-moon-missions-20181217
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_S-band

 

[MaverickMan]

Ya know im starting to think these pictures were taken somewhere near the Nazca Plateau. That would explain the shadows.

 

[Slickrock]

Ya know im starting to think these pictures were taken somewhere near the Nazca Plateau. That would explain the shadows.

There are a lot of lines in the sand in the pic.. you might be on to something...

 

[MaverickMan]

My guess is the oversized top of the windshield has to do with the large overhead console and visors. I’m not proposing that the top of the windshield frame covers all of it, but at least several inches at the front that includes all of the wiring.

Yeah it need that much frame just to hang off of.

 

[pan-y-cerveza]

There are a lot of lines in the sand in the pic.. you might be on to something...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...historical-site-in-peru-damaging-the-designs/

Early Bronco testing??

People thought the reveal on OJ's birthday was bad....

 

[MaverickMan]

They did a long time ago...

Side note: I love first gen explorers. Such cool vehicles but I get the impression they weren’t built too well. Still see second gen+ all over but the 1st gen I think all got destroyed by cash for clunkers or rusted away lol. I’ve considered building my rock crawler out of one... would be cool.

I think there were just alot more 2nd gens built over more years. They were pretty cool. I really didnt like the rangers/explorers after they rounded em. Also I will say that alot of em that lived their normal life eventually went on to be built and destroyed over years of offroad abuse. That and prerunner guys chopping off their I beams for other projects.

 

[MaverickMan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...historical-site-in-peru-damaging-the-designs/

Early Bronco testing??

People thought the reveal on OJ's birthday was bad....

Oh sheet now where are aliens gonna land. They come in hot at light speed and need the lines to get lined up with the rotation of the earth.

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