What's your unpopular Bronco opinion?

[IndyBD]

Well Jason....... here is my take on you posting this. You pick the one that fits.
A. You meant to type BL instead of BD.
B. You don't really know how much you really get when you get Badlands
C. You are to poor to get a Badlands

I did order BL originally, but dropped to BD and soft top in hopes of getting it quicker. Which worked out because I was pulled the very next month.

Jason

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[IndyBD]

Are you calling me an imposter?

No me. I'm not really Jason.

Jason

 

[BottleShark]

I did order BL originally, but dropped to BD and soft top in hopes of getting it quicker. Which worked out because I was pulled the very next month.

Jason

I like the soft top BUT the way the rear opens is so dumb!

 

[IndyBD]

I like the soft top BUT the way the rear opens is so dumb!

Agreed and had I known how much it would be to convert to a hardtop, well because you know I'm poor, I would have waited.

 

[MnLakeBum]

White, black, and gray/silver are boring colors that look good on a refrigerator or washing machine but not so much on a vehicle. 77% of car/truck owners choose those so if that’s what you drive, congrats, you have plenty of other conformists that think your car color looks great.

 

[BottleShark]

White, black, and gray/silver are boring colors that look good on a refrigerator or washing machine but not so much on a vehicle. 77% of car/truck owners choose those so if that’s what you drive, congrats, you have plenty of other conformists that think your car color looks great.

I don't know if those numbers apply to a enthusiast's car.

 

[Marauder]

White, black, and gray/silver are boring colors that look good on a refrigerator or washing machine but not so much on a vehicle. 77% of car/truck owners choose those so if that’s what you drive, congrats, you have plenty of other conformists that think your car color looks great.

Honestly, I’m surprised Yellow is lower than Orange simply because of Taxi Fleets

 

[ctandc]

Apparently after reading some of this thread, my "Unpopular Bronco opinion" is that I pay way less attention to what other people drive and what they do to their vehicles than some people.

 

[FlyingScot]

White, black, and gray/silver are boring colors that look good on a refrigerator or washing machine but not so much on a vehicle. 77% of car/truck owners choose those so if that’s what you drive, congrats, you have plenty of other conformists that think your car color looks great.

My three vehicles in life so far have been a white Integra, a silver Frontier, and a gray 235i. I'm ready for more color in my life. Well, just a little, since apparently on here Area 51 is just a fancy gray.

 

[FlyingScot]

One more . . . I actually kinda like Navy Pier.

Reminds me of the blue interiors GM did in their trucks/Suburbans in the 90s (and I think they did Maroon as well), I dig it

 

[MnLakeBum]

My three vehicles in life so far have been a white Integra, a silver Frontier, and a gray 235i. I'm ready for more color in my life. Well, just a little, since apparently on here Area 51 is just a fancy gray.

Which must mean the sky and water are also a fancy gray as my desktop picture proves.

 

[Brnco2.7]

As someone else mentioned, most people want a 4-Dr., so by virtue of pure sales, liking a 2-Dr is unpopular.

I don’t look down on 4-Dr. owners. I just think the vehicle is unappealing. It looks like an Excursion or Expedition offshoot.

And if you want to talk about a 2-Dr being more “real” (as someone mentioned), well, in terms of a Bronco, it is.

That’s what a Bronco is. 2 doors. Same with a Jeep.

What if you gave a Corvette 4 doors or 4 seats? People would say the original Corvette is the “real” Corvette.

Sometimes you just need 2 more doors!

 

[JoeSpeed]

White, black, and gray/silver are boring colors that look good on a refrigerator or washing machine but not so much on a vehicle. 77% of car/truck owners choose those so if that’s what you drive, congrats, you have plenty of other conformists that think your car color looks great.

Id of gone purple if it were an option

 

[MNBigfoot]

White, black, and gray/silver are boring colors that look good on a refrigerator or washing machine but not so much on a vehicle. 77% of car/truck owners choose those so if that’s what you drive, congrats, you have plenty of other conformists that think your car color looks great.

Red, Silver, Blue, and Gray near equally boring, while Brown and Green are off the charts exciting, who would've thought?

 

[MnLakeBum]

As someone else mentioned, most people want a 4-Dr. So, by pure sales, liking a 2-Dr is unpopular.

I don’t look down on 4-Dr. owners. I just think the vehicle is unappealing. It looks like an Excursion or Expedition offshoot.

And if you want to talk about a 2-Dr being more “real” (as someone mentioned), well, in terms of a Bronco, it is.

That’s what a Bronco is. 2 doors. Same with a Jeep.

What if you gave a Corvette 4 doors or 4 seats? People would say the original Corvette is the “real” Corvette.

As a former and likely future Corvette owner, that analogy is poor, as sports cars serve a different purpose. Sports cars have 2 doors, always have, and always will. If they have 4, they are sports sedans, and handling suffers, making them less desirable and "real," which likely hurts the egos of Panamera and Tesla owners everywhere.


Pick-up trucks used to have 2 doors and a much smaller cab, but Dodge changed that in 1973 with their larger cab going mainstream. Now only 3% of pickups sold are regular cabs(83.1% are crew). Saying a 4 door Bronco is more "real" with 2 doors is the same logic as saying 4 door pickups are less "real." You could also use that logic to say a Bronco Raptor is less real as a 4 door. Oh wait, they only come in 4 doors, maybe becasue they perform on high speed desert runs much better with the longer wheelbase. Intended purpose matters.

The Bronco is an SUV, and for a very long time, most SUVs, including Jeeps, have had 4 doors.
The 2-door Bronco for me, loses all of its utility as it doesn't have enough room for 2 or 3 buddies(or family members) and me to go on a hunting or camping trip, especially with a dog crate and supplies in the back. If I was single, had fewer than 3 kids, or was building a Bronco for just offroading that I towed to the trails like many of my buddies do, the two-door would make more sense.

FWIW, the shorter wheelbase makes 2 door Jeeps and Broncos less stable on icy/snowy mountain roads or desert running at high speed. I've logged about 2,500 days snow skiing, and 2 door Jeeps get stuck in the ditch at an incredibly high rate compared to longer wheel-based SUVs and even cars like Audi Quattro and Subarus. On several dozen occasions, I've been passed by a two-door Jeep on a mountain or snowy/icy Minnesota road, only to wave at them as they are stuck in the ditch 10 minutes later. We even helped a two door Jeep owner upright his after he flipped it at 60+ mph on a frozen lake a couple of years ago.

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