Free Wheeling Package Debuts for 2025 Bronco

[DarthLincoln]

Also on my to-do list.

The better question is if those clusters will be readily available via the parts channels. My guess is they probably won't be until summer 2025, if not later.

Hopefully, Ford has been monitoring these and other forums, and is already building up a large spare parts inventory of clusters to get ready.

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[GroovyGeek]

Fugly... Coyote ugly... Tripple Bagger... Pick your expression of dislike

 

[rmc523]

And FWIW it looks like it loses the Big Bend fog lights, maybe the Big Bend does too for 2025. I think I like the silver (throwback Argent?) grille. Instrument cluster and rear vents are definite wins. To me it would be doubtful that the new IC or vents for that matter would be plug and play.

Yeah, I doubt it'll be an easy swap, but we shall see! The big question will be routing of the vents - is there space there to just throw them in, or do you wind up having to purchase a whole new console, etc?

Looks like they moved some other controls onto the turn signal stalk?

No, it looks like the same wiper and signal/high beam controls to me.

Tach should be on the right side.

Why?

 

[vrtical]

I would bet the farm that Ford releases a retro cluster layout option just depends on what era they use, 90s would work best but it would be cool if a 60s was done.

 

[heavyD]

Tach should be on the right side.

Nah. Tach should be in the middle. Porsche is one of the few automakers that gets this right.

 

[heavyD]

As we all know, Ford has had an ongoing shortage of colors other than gray for a long time now. The three colors you see were all they were able to come up with. Any more and their heads would have exploded from having too many real colors.

Maybe Ford should screen the people in charge of picking colors for color blindness.

 

[heavyD]

The current cluster is so bad it makes you wonder if the person(s) responsible for it even knows how to drive a car. It is definitely an atrocious design.

I can tell you for sure the people that designed it, never had driven a manual transmission before. The vertical bar graph is easily the worst tachometer in the history of instrument clusters.

 

[Sir915]

I sure hope the vents of the rear center console are on a different face plate and it pops onbour consoles. I just can't imagine ford putting the effort in to make a new center console completely.

 

[Ducati1098]

I sure hope the vents of the rear center console are on a different face plate and it pops on our consoles. I just can't imagine ford putting the effort in to make a new center console completely.

I doubt the current one was designed to have vents running under/through it, so I would guess it's a whole different center console.

 

[RagnarKon]

I sure hope the vents of the rear center console are on a different face plate and it pops onbour consoles. I just can't imagine ford putting the effort in to make a new center console completely.

I doubt the current one was designed to have vents running under/through it, so I would guess it's a whole different center console.

Yeah having been in that center console a few times... I'd expect to need a whole new center console, and honestly probably a little bit more beyond that.

The rear under-seat floor vents do run near the current console, so you could probably DIY a solution to make it work, but then anytime you need A/C in the back seat you'll need to run the floor vents.

 

[Kevin Scarbel]

I'll wrap up this thread with this comment.
If I ran the Bronco brand and gave customers an MY2025 choice of the return of the Desert Sand color (only no longer exclusive to the Everglades) and the Freewheeling exterior scheme, I'm confident that Desert Sand would outsell Freewheeling 10-to-1 or greater.

 

[Rough Rider]

A paint and a graphics package is comparing apples to oranges. There are completely different manufacturing processes and limitations on those. They would never be a one or another option.

 

[Kevin Scarbel]

A paint and a graphics package is comparing apples to oranges. There are completely different manufacturing processes and limitations on those. They would never be a one or another option.

I humbly disagree.
I'm confident that more FAR customers would pay an "extra cost" for Desert Sand........than for the Freewheeling graphics scheme.

 

[Rough Rider]

Yes, more people would pay extra for a bland paint color than an niche graphics package. Thats obvious. The question would properly be Desert Sand paint vs cyber orange paint, or a free wheeling graphic vs a racing stripe graphic. Those would be similar comparisons. You are comparing paint to graphics, which are completly different styles and manufacturing processes. That isnt logical.

 

[Lowcountry Bronco]

I'll wrap up this thread with this comment.
If I ran the Bronco brand and gave customers an MY2025 choice of the return of the Desert Sand color (only no longer exclusive to the Everglades) and the Freewheeling exterior scheme, I'm confident that Desert Sand would outsell Freewheeling 10-to-1 or greater.

So how would the Free Wheeling sell with the Desert Sand option?

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