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I think you may be getting your desert racing trophy panties I'm a wad. You yourself said "minimizes side rocking over bumps". That's exactly my point that disconnected it leads to a more comfortable offroad ride over bumps. Of course it's by allowing more side to side rocking that's the whole point of what the sway bar prevents for safety.Since I'm a desert racer and have a shelf full of trophies and a class national championship, I'll politely disagree that no sway bar helps absorb bumps at any speed. Suspension tuning absorbs bumps, it's the job of shocks and springs. A disconnected sway bar only minimizes slow speed side motion of the body which can be uncomfortable. At speed, you want control as you make quick steering corrections to maintain control and direction, and you want that sway bar. Yes, for exploring at lower speeds, a disconnected sway bar can be more comfortable, but not because of handling bumps, it reduces side reflex of the chassis. I'm going to bet that the IFS of the Bronco does much more of that on it's own compared to a strait axle car, with or without a sway bar disco.
I also take issue with so called hard core Jeepers who leave off a sway bar. This is the exception, not the rule, and some people simply have lower standards and expectations. Sure, if someone has a very stiff suspension, and they say it handles perfectly fine on the road, they don't say or even know that it rides like crap, especially off road. I challenge this regularly, as do many others, on Jeep discussion boards. Personally, I don't see a Wildtrack having a disco. If you want to run trails get a Badlands. Personal opinion here.
Also, I never said it was a common practice for jeepers to leave it disconnected but some absolutely due leave it off full time regardless of highway/speed. Not sure what part of that statement you can possibly take issue with as it's factual.
And yes as you said IFS should help with off-road ride comfort over a SFA, which goes back to my original post of wondering if it improves performance and is worth the badlands premium.
I agree it's not likely because it takes away from the badlands uniqueness but I think Wildtrack would certainly be a logical choice if Ford did expand to other trims as they would likely want to keep it a premium price feature. Sounds like we agree on most everything other than if it's valuable feature on a wildtrack.
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