Browsing the new Bronco section of Ford’s US website is a remarkably diverting way to spend time. Ford’s reborn all-American off-roader comes in the kind of specification that made it famous in the 1960s and 1970s: with two doors, a removable hard roof and a chunky appearance that rather suits balloon tyres and bold colours. It’s a range tinged with nostalgia and even some humour: there’s a paint called Area 51.
However, unlike the original Bronco (see overleaf), the new model is also offered in different styles – ones that give it the kind of practicality that it lacked in the 1990s and ultimately cost it its place in Ford’s model line-up at the time.
So here’s one with four doors. It has a soft top that can be half or fully removed, but a removable hardtop is offered too. The doors also come off and it is a genuinely rugged 4x4, with a chassis beneath derived from the Ford Ranger pickup truck. This variant is a mid-spec Outer Banks 4dr. I’m not sure it totally nails the perfect Bronco aesthetic, but a few aftermarket additions would sort that.
In its most direct terms, it’s a car designed to go up against, in its American homeland, the Jeep Wrangler – and prices reflect it.
The Jeep was originally designed as a military 4x4 but is one that, with the addition of different body styles and practicality and versatility, has kept pace with its surroundings in a way that the original Bronco generations didn’t.
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