Jeepers - "Ford, thanks for the Bronco reboot"

[BWepps]

Which one do you tend to gravitate to and put more mileage on ? For what reasons ?

Good question.

The Bronco is "mine," but the wife loves to drive it. My wife loves the boxy style of both the Wrangler and the Bronco, but unfortunately has Arthritis and is unable to fold the soft top or remove hard top panels. Hence the Sky One Touch on her Willys.

Where the Bronco wins:
Better ride, arrow straight cruising at highway speeds, 300hp 2.3 Turbo base engine, improved tech. Peeps don't like the independent front suspension, but I'm not going crazy off-camber rock climbing. Mirrors on the body when you remove the doors and hinges on the inside with frameless windows.
Where the Willys wins:
Jeep tops fit & finish is way better. Ford needs to step up here. Love that the Willys has "Rubicon bones" stock. Alpine stereo blows away the Ford B&O (which I don't have, but I did have to install an amp and replace all six speakers on the Bronco). What I DON'T like - the hinge/doors corrosion-gate. We'll see how the Bronco does here as the door panels are aluminum as well, but the hinges are inside.

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[MayThe4x4BWU]

The resulting haphazard mishmash that Stellantis is doing to Jeep only serves to piss me off at Stellantis, not thank Ford

 

[2nd 392]

Good question.

The Bronco is "mine," but the wife loves to drive it. My wife loves the boxy style of both the Wrangler and the Bronco, but unfortunately has Arthritis and is unable to fold the soft top or remove hard top panels. Hence the Sky One Touch on her Willys.

Where the Bronco wins:
Better ride, arrow straight cruising at highway speeds, 300hp 2.3 Turbo base engine, improved tech. Peeps don't like the independent front suspension, but I'm not going crazy off-camber rock climbing. Mirrors on the body when you remove the doors and hinges on the inside with frameless windows.
Where the Willys wins:
Jeep tops fit & finish is way better. Ford needs to step up here. Love that the Willys has "Rubicon bones" stock. Alpine stereo blows away the Ford B&O (which I don't have, but I did have to install an amp and replace all six speakers on the Bronco). What I DON'T like - the hinge/doors corrosion-gate. We'll see how the Bronco does here as the door panels are aluminum as well, but the hinges are inside.

— my 392 rides, handles, and is straight arrow, (to 85 at least) like the SOT but they missed and should have pinned the rear window hinges to the interior and latched them like the side panels making it removable. The frameless windows make good nearly standard half doors, too bad Jeep window/ door design makes it impossible. Don’t care for the removable by trail hazard mirrors. Both good with plus and minus differences. At least the new Bronco was designed closer to it’s icon

not this- at least mine was white….and blue

 

[Bocephus]

Jeepers have to thank Ford for throwing their bucking Bronco hat in the ring. Jeep was resting a little too much on its laurels. Bronco stirred things up. Thanks to Ford, Jeepers can now get a '24 Rubicon lite - aka Willys - for ~$40-$45K. for 98% of the Jeep buying public, that is all we need - stock, fully capable right off the lot. Would you have expected Stellantis to have made all this available if Bronco/Sasquatch packages were not selling out months prior to production???
NO WAY - Thanks Ford.

Dude there are like 47 threads going back 3 years with 500+ people saying this. Welcome though.

 

[Deleted member 59498]

Oh look a Bronco post....

 

[aldo98229]

Yes. Every time something new starts to break on Broncos, someone starts a thread on here to remind us how wonderful Fords are.

 

[2nd 392]

Oh look a Bronco post....

 

[Deleted member 59498]

I think we got a twofer today!

 

[2nd 392]

I think we got a twofer today!

 

[Bulletbill]

Jeepers have to thank Ford for throwing their bucking Bronco hat in the ring. Jeep was resting a little too much on its laurels. Bronco stirred things up. Thanks to Ford, Jeepers can now get a '24 Rubicon lite - aka Willys - for ~$40-$45K. for 98% of the Jeep buying public, that is all we need - stock, fully capable right off the lot. Would you have expected Stellantis to have made all this available if Bronco/Sasquatch packages were not selling out months prior to production???
NO WAY - Thanks Ford.

How about this instead. Bronco owners should be thanking Jeep that it didn’t quit the market 27 years ago. Instead after Ford gave up on the Bronco, Jeep continued to evolve and innovate.

They should be kissing Jeeps ass that Ford then took a JK, and later in the design process a JL, copied everything about it, slapped IFS on and then called it revolutionary. All the while having a Jeep clone in every other way.

So your post is crap. And on behalf of Jeep to all Wrongco owners, your welcome.

 

[jberry187]

The whole concept of arguing "this brand vs. that brand" is ridiculous. Every one of them has its own positives and negatives. It always comes down to the owner's preference. On that note, what level of retardation does one have to reach in order to come to a Jeep Wrangler forum, looking for a Jeeper to grip Ford's nuts?

 

[SargeDiesel]

Hell... my eye starts twitching when people refer to their Jeep as a "Rig"... don't get me started with the Bronco post... there are other places for them:

https://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/forums/ask-an-owner-operator.139/

https://www.bronco6g.com/forum/

 

[Beungood]

The resulting haphazard mishmash that Stellantis is doing to Jeep only serves to piss me off at Stellantis, not thank Ford

I was hoping someone would buy Jeep away from Stellantis/Fiat.

 

[2nd 392]

The whole concept of arguing "this brand vs. that brand" is ridiculous. Every one of them has its own positives and negatives. It always comes down to the owner's preference. On that note, what level of retardation does one have to reach in order to come to a Jeep Wrangler forum, looking for a Jeeper to grip Ford's nuts?

Devils advocate— brand competition created NASCAR and the racing sports in general. With competition comes innovation, aerodynamics (Daytona-Superbird), powertrains ( 426/27’s etc), better brakes-suspension etc. in the quest for customer preference. Too bad some idgets can’t keep it on a friendly competitive level.

 

[T Town]

How about this instead. Bronco owners should be thanking Jeep that it didn’t quit the market 27 years ago. Instead after Ford gave up on the Bronco, Jeep continued to evolve and innovate.

They should be kissing Jeeps ass that Ford then took a JK, and later in the design process a JL, copied everything about it, slapped IFS on and then called it revolutionary. All the while having a Jeep clone in every other way.

So your post is crap. And on behalf of Jeep to all Wrongco owners, your welcome.

Well if thanks are in order someone could thank Jeep for taking Ford’s prototype look and running with it.

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