I struggled with my color selection…didn’t think the options were that great. I almost went with Sarge Green but ended up choosing Sting-Gray. I’m not sure how that will look with the bronze accents. Snazzberry - you’re brave! I placed my order last Thursday and got my VIN yesterday.
Worse gas mileage. No power seats, no heated seats, no adaptive cruise control, black seats are hot in the sun, must take hardtop and store when using soft top, overweight, $30,000 more out of your wallet.
It’s for my wife, it doesn’t look too bad. It’s way better than the pink they came out with.
Gas mileage is the same imagine that. It does have adaptive cruise and depending on what the op chose he can have a sky one touch modular roof.
The Wrangler 392 gets 14 MPG city while some who have test driven it say they are getting 12. There is no V8 Bronco and the Warthog should be a 3.0 V6TT so not sure why bringing up a V8 Bronco is relevant. If I had the 75K+ to spend on it then I wouldn't care about the fuel costs per se but I added the comment of purchase price + fuel for those who are going to be using it at as a daily driver and spending that extra roughly 2K+ a year on fuel costs.
Worse gas mileage. No power seats, no heated seats, no adaptive cruise control, black seats are hot in the sun, must take hardtop and store when using soft top, overweight, $30,000 more out of your wallet.
In a word, driveline. Engineering puts a lot of time into building parts and destroying them. In the Sharonville transmission plant, for example, they have a steep grade built out of cement specifically to load up and break transmissions/drivelines. The broken parts are dissected in the lab and analyzed for mechanical properties. Metal chemistry, heat treat depths, loads, temperature, and many more factors are considered before building 2 or 3 hundred thousand of something and turning it over to the public.
haha. Yes. I am completely aware of that. The statement about why Ford can’t do that included the actual engineering/research/materials science/testing. Can you imagine if they simply dropped a 7.3 in with this Ford Explorer transmission behind it.
As a hot-rodder in those meetings I regularly locked horns with bean counters. The Engineers drove built Mustangs and Raptors, the Finance department drove base Focuses. Exaggerated, but fundamentally true.haha. Yes. I am completely aware of that. The statement about why Ford can’t do that included the actual engineering/research/materials science/testing. Can you imagine if they simply dropped a 7.3 in with this Ford Explorer transmission behind it.
Absolutely. You can tell that the “bean counters” drove the production of the Bronco. All the plastic is so thin. All of the places Ford usually uses exterior Tesa tape, we have interior tesa tape. Even when compared to my sons bronco sport, the big bronco feels super cheap. The bronco sport has a nice hard foam dashboard. On mine, the interior dash panels feel like I could poke a hole through it with my pinky. I had the dash out and all of the HVAC plumbing isn’t secured to anything, it’s just wrapped in sticky back open cell foam tape so it won’t rattle. You can grab it and move it around. Lots of penny pinch design decisions were made. I like the truck but you can really tell that quality wasn’t a big focus this time around. The entire truck just feels fragile.
