Free Wheeling Package Debuts for 2025 Bronco

[Dogula]

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.

Desert Sand is the color of my trash container. I live in Arizona, I see enough desert sand.

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[FourHorses]

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

Why?

I wont argue with center or right, but left is always wrong in my view when looking at it from the perspective of a manual transmission.

Think about it. Left handed drive, shift with his right hand. Right hand is on the shifter, means left hand is on the wheel. Typically the top of the wheel. With your arm at the top of the wheel your vision is impeded by your arm and visibility of the tach on the left side.

This is why many modern Mustangs have them on the right. It was intentional.

Ford did mess this up on the 2005-2009 Mustang and put it on the left, but they fixed it on the Shelby GT500 which were manual only cars. This was an intentional adjustment.

It did bounce back to the left in 2016, but I grew accustomed to the right and believe it is much easier to keep a view on your tach either front and center, or right justified.

Regardless, it's still better than this. I'm actually mostly fine with it except for the tach.

 

[CarmeloS]

I've gotten used to our dash, I just wish we had MyColor for them, I hate blue

 

[Kevin Scarbel]

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.

Either extra cost option has the same result, that being additional profitability and a larger quantity of pleased customers.
Given a choice between the two, I would therefore offer Desert Sand light years before agreeing to a mistaken graphics scheme because I'm confident the order intake for Desert Sand would be far greater.

 

[heavyD]

I haven't sat in a Braptor but does the display have multiple different configurations like the Mustang (normal, sport, track, retro Fox body) instrument cluster? Surely they wouldn't default the Bronco to a single setup?

 

[Ducati1098]

I wont argue with center or right, but left is always wrong in my view when looking at it from the perspective of a manual transmission.

Think about it. Left handed drive, shift with his right hand. Right hand is on the shifter, means left hand is on the wheel. Typically the top of the wheel. With your arm at the top of the wheel your vision is impeded by your arm and visibility of the tach on the left side.

This is why many modern Mustangs have them on the right. It was intentional.

Ford did mess this up on the 2005-2009 Mustang and put it on the left, but they fixed it on the Shelby GT500 which were manual only cars. This was an intentional adjustment.

It did bounce back to the left in 2016, but I grew accustomed to the right and believe it is much easier to keep a view on your tach either front and center, or right justified.

Regardless, it's still better than this. I'm actually mostly fine with it except for the tach.

I don't think using one vehicle really determines whether it should be on the left or right. Everyone has their preference just like anything else. So saying left is wrong for everyone doesn't really seem right (pun intended).

But if we are going to base it off the mustang... out of the 7 generations the tach was on the right 2.5 times and hasn't been there in over a decade. If anything I'd say it's intentionally more on the left side

 

[PetePerkins]

Couple colors shy of needing pronouns.

my very 1st thought

 

[Lowcountry Bronco]

I don't think using one vehicle really determines whether it should be on the left or right. Everyone has their preference just like anything else. So saying left is wrong for everyone doesn't really seem right (pun intended).

But if we are going to base it off the mustang... out of the 7 generations the tach was on the right 2.5 times and hasn't been there in over a decade. If anything I'd say it's intentionally more on the left side

Well ... hopefully it going full digital will allow some customization. I know for myself anyways, I don't really need a tach and can go by sound/feel.

 

[FourHorses]

I don't think using one vehicle really determines whether it should be on the left or right. Everyone has their preference just like anything else. So saying left is wrong for everyone doesn't really seem right (pun intended).

But if we are going to base it off the mustang... out of the 7 generations the tach was on the right 2.5 times and hasn't been there in over a decade. If anything I'd say it's intentionally more on the left side

It was just delivered as an opinion, and then I backed it up with factual data and an example of why I have the opinion. We can branch it out to many other vehicles if desired, but I see that as needless additional details because I already stated the "why" I believe it is better on the right. End of the day it is my opinion based upon my experience with many Mustangs I have owned all in manual form with it on the left or right.

 

[FirstOnRaceDay01]

To each their own, but in my opinion, those wheels are awful. The 'silver' grille and door handles look tacky and cheap—they don’t complement anything on the vehicle besides themselves. Hey, FORD! Don’t ruin the appeal of the Bronco. It should turn heads with admiration, not look like a mishmash of plastic add-ons from an auto parts store. The Free Wheeling package is a great concept, but its design could have been more premium, polished, and less gimmicky.

 

[Dral97]

To each their own, but in my opinion, those wheels are awful. The 'silver' grille and door handles look tacky and cheap—they don’t complement anything on the vehicle besides themselves. Hey, FORD! Don’t ruin the appeal of the Bronco. It should turn heads with admiration, not look like a mishmash of plastic add-ons from an auto parts store. The Free Wheeling package is a great concept, but its design could have been more premium, polished, and less gimmicky.

Yep, as I was saying earlier, those handles just don't work. Chrome would have looked cool, but we know how it went even if that was brought up:

"Well, it will take some work to make a chrome that isn't cheap or cheap looking"
"Wait, we already have something that sort of looks like chrome: metallic silver paint!"
"That's right Johnny! Good thinking! We're just making something to get people to pay out more money and make more profit, not actually make something that is true to the original!"
"Good enough, let's do it! You get a promotion Johnny, and your first job is to redesign the dash cluster."

 

[indio22]

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.

The current Bronco center console (between front seats) seems non-removable? Or at least not without some work?

The center console in my mini-van can be removed with a simple lever, leaving space to fit my kayak between the seats among other things. That would be a nice feature.

I removed the center console from my CJ-7 (a few screws) and use to keep a cooler in between seats, sitting on a homemade platform tray, that was quite useful and doubled as an armrest.

 

[BigBlue4]

Anyone notice the top?!! Looks like new generation of hardtops!!

 

[Ducati1098]

Anyone notice the top?!! Looks like new generation of hardtops!!

Already available since the 2nd half of 2024.

 

[OX1]

Nothing like either of these?

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