I really like the look of these, they look like they provide a bit more coverage than KBD or Bestop's square flares, curious to see how they look paint-matched. Hopefully they're working on a set for the 2-Doors!
This line of thinking is why manufacturers outsource in the first place, people are always eager to buy local until they get the bill, then it's suddenly "price gouging" and "anti-consumer".
I think ducking represents the absolute worst aspects of the Jeep community, spending money on cheap plastic decorations in lieu of legitimate upgrades because you've decided to go all in on substituting your personality with a car but can't actually hang with the off-roaders, milsurp...
Honorable mention to the Bestop fender flares, which look worse out of the box but pretty good if you get them painted. I think the KBD's have a much better shape with more rounded corners that leave less of the wheel well visible, but I wish they were a bit thicker like the Bestop's so that...
In my experience, the sad thing is it isn't even cost of engineering or economies of scale that kill smaller projects, it's often just an unwillingness to maintain inventory/supply chains for all the extra parts. Outer Banks is 4-Door only and has one interior color now but that's 60 fewer...
Ford is winding down Bronco production across the board for 2025, so I'm not surprised 2-Doors are seeing a lot of options stripped away as a result, but I think Ford has realized that most people who want a 2-Door Bronco are barebones Off-Roaders (Basesquatch) or people who want something...
How self-involved to you have to be to say "who cares" about large swaths of enthusiasts being priced out of the market, while expecting anyone to be invested in a 1,000 word dissertation about how you're entitled to the same amount of approval as actual off-roaders?
It's pretty well known that manufacturers are being forced to make EVs because the regulations for emissions and fuel efficiency were set at an unattainable level by lawmakers. You think it's a coincidence that Dodge killed the Hemi the same year that they started building EVs...
I think the only two noticeably ugly things about it are the exposed hinges and the rear taillights. I'm guessing someone in marketing insisted on the exposed hinges so that everyone would know that the doors were removable like the Wrangler's, and the taillights have to look like that to...
The Chinese Market Broncos got some really interesting interior finishes and options, I keep hoping we'll get some of these as an option, doesn't look like it'll be this year though. Wonder if you could order the parts from overseas?
Not confirmed but it sounds like they're planning one internally, along with a 3-row.
" It is true a smaller subset of customers are saying they want that removable roof experience….Doesn’t mean we can’t do one in the future, on say a vehicle with fewer doors and a shorter wheelbase. "...
Given market demands, it will almost certainly be a 4 Door, though in all fairness the Scout was always a bit bigger than the Bronco, the Scout II was 15" longer than a 1st-Gen Bronco, which is coincidentally the difference in length between a 2 Door and 4 Door Bronco. Biggest thing up in the...
That's what I assumed initially, but the CEO confirmed that the new Scouts are going to be Body-on-Frame using a new, unshared platform with built in mechanical lockers, not unibodies with torque vectoring like Rivian uses, so these will probably be considerably more off-road capable than any...
Wow, they slaughtered the options for this year. Wildtrak, Everglades, and Black Diamond are out, no more two-door Big Bend or Heritage (guess they expect you to pony up for a Stroppe Edition) half the colors are gone.