QOTD: How We Feeling About THAT Ford?
It’s Bronco Day.
Today is the day that you, the reader, can finally read the reviews of the much-hyped 2021 Ford Bronco.
Now that you’ve had the chance to read our review and others, how are you feeling about Ford’s big Bronco? If you were excited/meh/bothered by it before, have you changed your mind or do you still feel the same? If you were ambivalent, has a positive review convinced you to go out and buy one? Or vice versa, if a review wasn’t quite so positive?
It’s a stretch to say the Bronco is a make-or-break product for Ford — the Blue Oval will be just fine if it’s a flop. But there’s a big spotlight on this one, and now that a bunch of the press has finally gotten wheel time, we’re wondering if the reviews are influencing you in a way that photos haven’t.
As always, sound off below.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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Everyone has zero interest in Bronco but yet everyone writes long comments about it. Too many EBFlexes. If you are not interested just skip, like me.
It may be perfectly competent for mild off roading, but I am not buying any vehicle for serious offroading which has a small turbocharged engine, and a likely wimpy auto tranny. They also look to be overpriced for what you get. A Jeep Wrangler with a V6 is much preferable, esp. given the plethora of aftermarket parts. If the vehicle proves to be a competent offroader, I'd still wait a couple of years until the bugs have been fixed.
I will let you know what I think of it after Iron Man (NOT the Marvel character) drives one. Honestly, I have always liked the Jeep CJ series through the current Wrangler but have always respected the Bronco in the Baja style races.
Based merely on seeing a few on the road, they looks to be small, cheaply built, unprepossessing junk boxes.