Just saw one in the wild. Didn't even know they were on the streets yet !

Been available for a few weeks now. Drove one from Brenham to La Grange and back. MPG 26.8. Was a comfortable drive. Power was good for a 1.5L

I posted a picture of one I saw at a gas station a few months ago so I think they've been out for a while now.

College Station Ford has a few. I've seen them online at dealers in Caldwell, Brenham, Madisonville, Navasota and Huntsville. Planet Ford in Spring has like 60 of them. They are all over and selling like crazy.

Regular Broncos too or just sports ??

Regular Bronco this summer.

nealan said:

---

Regular Broncos too or just sports ??

---

Sports

Aren't they basically Escapes with mods?

It reminded me of an escape very much

reproag said:

---

Been available for a few weeks now. Drove one from Brenham to La Grange and back. MPG 26.8. Was a comfortable drive. Power was good for a 1.5L

---

I'm going to wait for the .857L 1-Banger.

MouthBQ98 said:

---

Aren't they basically Escapes with mods?

---

Yup. Additional off road gizmos.

Ford's trying to target the escape towards their former car buyers, and the Bronco sport more towards the Folks that would be cross shopping a compass/RAV4/crosstrek.

I would say they're a little more than just an Escape with a few mods:

https://www.motortrend.com/news/2021-ford-bronco-sport-escape-suspension-awd-systems-explained/

That reads exactly like an Escape with a few mods lol

Reads like an Escape with a lot of mods to me lol

If you've seen the videos of a sport out in Moab you know thay are a really capable offroader as well

AgBQ-00 said:

---

If you've seen the videos of a sport out in Moab you know thay are a really capable offroader as well

---

That Crown Vic video looks like it was shot out of a Huey flying over the rice paddies in Vietnam.

Saw one this weekend when I went fishing....i was shocked at how small it was. Like closer to an old Bronco 2 than a Bronco.

Duncan Idaho said:

---

Saw one this weekend when I went fishing....i was shocked at how small it was. Like closer to an old Bronco 2 than a Bronco.

---

I think the Sport is smaller than the old Bronco II and the new Bronco is about the same size of the Bronco II.

Prune Tracy said:

---

"I just hope it's a rental."

I need a Top Gear episode like this - take sedans and hit the trails.

---

This is going to sound ridiculous but me and two other buddies took an early aughts 2WD 4 cyl Hyundai Tucson off-road in Colorado on some absolutely insane mountain trails and it was a total badass. I'm not sure why we did this since if it had gotten stuck we would have been SOL. However, it was incredible what we were able to do with it. Best off-road performance I've ever been a part of. I'm not making this up.

We still marvel at it almost a decade later.

Ok I had to look it up... didn't know the bronco and the sport were different body styles altogether. Thank God. That sport in the video is lame. The Bronco looks great.

Yeah. A lot of name confusion for no reason. They shoulda called the Escape Sport. The interior look like my 73 yr old mom's Escape.

Been a Bronco guy since I was 15. I've already gotten like 5 emails from parents/uncles/rando's with "hey look at this is sweet Bronco", with some lame Bronco Sport in the link.