To Wave or not to Wave?

[615_Bronco]

I wave, 75% of the time I don’t get a wave back.
I have more fun waving at Jeeps and watching their reactions

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[Gypsy]

I dont get the ‘wave’ thing. When driving my Toyota Avalon, should I wave at other people driving their Avalon? Like we’re part of some sort of secret exclusive club…….bunch of dorks

I remember the Bronco Wave in 1971. Back when cars and trucks were bad ass. Looked good, sounded good, made better, classics. It wasn't a bunch of Dorks. It was a friendly acknowledgement of having the same cool vehicle, bond so to speak.

 

[Bugkillah]

I do remember this one time about a week after we got the bronco in Feb ‘23, we (me, wife and son) were sitting at a red light waiting to turn left and another bronco was crossing, passing in front of us, the wife (driver) and 3 kids all pointing and waving at us smiling and us waving and pointing back. I smiled for about 2 miles after that.

 

[Dral97]

Nah. I don't bother in my Jeep anymore either. Back in the late 90s early 00s when I had my TJ, almost every other jeep waved. Now, it like 10% or something. People don't get the memo, or they're the 'get a jeep to be trendy' crowd and dgaf.

I will keep an eye out when I drive my 95 YJ. The jeepers wave to me when I'm in that. I watch for passing Broncos, but never got a wave yet. I guess I could be the one who initiates it, but eh.

 

[BearPatrol]

I'll give out a friendlyif I notice we're noticing each other lol

 

[Redcobra]

I'll give out a friendlyif I notice we're noticing each other lol

to you to Brah!
I wave even to the stuck up a holes!
It’s just right and been doing it for fifty years. I think it scares some of them!!

 

[Dialtone]

I remember the Bronco Wave in 1971. Back when cars and trucks were bad ass. Looked good, sounded good, made better, classics. It wasn't a bunch of Dorks. It was a friendly acknowledgement of having the same cool vehicle, bond so to speak.

Made better? I like your alternate universe. Can I move there? Better looking and just more of a blast to drive? Absolutely. There was just less crap to break and it was easier to fix.

 

[Skeeterjack]

How about one flash with the windshield wipers. Unique and certainly visible.

 

[5GENIDN]

I dont get the ‘wave’ thing. When driving my Toyota Avalon, should I wave at other people driving their Avalon? Like we’re part of some sort of secret exclusive club…….bunch of dorks

either you "get it" or you don't.... so you are out of the club!

 

[5GENIDN]

How about one flash with the windshield wipers. Unique and certainly visible.

Well I guess every cultural greeting/acknowledgement has to start somewhere.... Start the trend...

 

[murphtron]

I wave. Get waves back maybe 50% of the time?

When driving my 2000 Miata the vast majority of other Miata drivers wave. Regardless of generation.

 

[JodyT]

Just a quick question for my other bronco drivers do you wave to other broncos that pass you or no? I always wave and I have noticed that very few will actually wave back! I would like to know what everyone else does???

I wave when I see a fellow Bronco owner. Some wave back, some give me a thumbs up, and some don’t acknowledge me at all. Either way, I’m happy.

 

[wrickem]

Lol, after 25 years of feeling forced to wave at other Wranglers and Porsches, I’m done waving.

 

[cr117]

How it feels waving at other Broncos:

 

[GreenVibesOnly]

I dont get the ‘wave’ thing. When driving my Toyota Avalon, should I wave at other people driving their Avalon? Like we’re part of some sort of secret exclusive club…….bunch of dorks

I do view it kind of like a club! A club of (often) like-minded and adventure-spirited people who don’t drive “what everyone else drives”.

So no, I probably wouldn’t wave to Avalon drivers or Sentra drivers if I owned one of those, but I came from a Focus ST and always waved to other ST drivers, and almost always got waves back. The ST wasn’t the most special car in the world, but it was definitely a fun, smaller-than-typical subset of car, and the owners were usually people that liked to have a little more fun with (and modify) their cars. Now I wave to all Bronco drivers because I think it’s a fun!

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