It’s hard for me to compare the H3 with the Bronco. They were designed for different driving patterns. The H3 was around at the worst time, the bronco is coming out at the best possible time. H3 wasn’t a main GM product, it suffered the chopping block when GM couldn’t afford multiple different...
- Compact SUV boom- My correction. And compact cars. Mazda Speed 3’s, evo’s, gti’s, crv’s, rav 4’s, small versions of big things were booming. I remember really wanting a speed 3... I still want a speed 3. Vehicles were getting smaller and efficient.
I’ve worked on a few H3’s and H2’s, maybe I’m just jaded because when I get them they are tore up, neglected, and full of problems. I’m not a fan of the interior, hate how hard it is to see out of, the exterior looks alright, especially lifted. It’s just not my taste. I’m too close to LA, all I...
I blame TN wheeler! I read the first post and responded to it. I was wondering about that nicer weather comment... my god it’s been consistently over 100 here in the high desert and it’s usually like... 50 degrees hotter in Arizona! I dunno how you guys can do over 100 in the day and still 100...
I’m not from the H3 era, being I was only 14 when it came out. But my god it’s ugly. Compared to the newly released 4dr Jeep in that period it just missed every mark to me. What was it competing with? There was no way that thing was seriously off roading... I think? Not then and not now have I...
No idea! It’s just been tradition to take a trip out to palm beach gardens and watch a gators game at the old key lime house. It gives me and my wife a reason to fly out to Florida and visit family.
I’m actually not a fan of auto stop start, on any car. It’s kind of an advanced feature and I’ve only seen it on autos. I haven’t really seen that feature on base model ford trucks, sorry if it is there but I haven’t seen it. You gotta think you either dual batteries, one main and a smaller...
Does anyone know if the bronco will have auto hold or brake hold? If it does it’ll help out a ton in stop and go traffic. It just automatically holds the brake for you when you come to a complete stop. My wife’s civic has that and I use that every time I drive it. Significantly helps on hill...
If you talk about the bronco at work and no one cares, you know they don’t care, but you don’t care that they don’t care so you keep on talking about it.
Maybe I can add more input on driving in traffic or the city. In horrible Los Angelas traffic, or a bad day when it’ll take you an hour just to move 10miles, I don’t notice it. Driving a 500rwhp car with a performance clutch which is a little stiff I might start feeling my leg get sore after an...
My daily’s have always been manuals, and no an extra gear doesn’t change a thing, you won’t really use 6th gear in the city. I once told my wife when she first got her manual car that after a month you’ll barely notice you’re driving stick, and after half a year it’s second nature and you never...
I’m really leaning towards manual, I can’t imagine giving up a manual as my daily. This bronco will be my new daily driver, I plan on not rock crawling but I live in the desert and will be hitting the trails a lot. Also my wife drives manual as her daily as well ? I told her once you went stick...
I had no idea about no feathering! So if you’re on a hill already, say front tire is pitched way up high on a rut and you’re kind of stuck in and stopped, you just let the clutch out in crawler gear and it doesn’t bog down and stall?
Well how is it? I’ve driven manual cars before I even got my license, all my daily’s have been manual. But all my trucks have always been 4x4 auto. Manual is like breathing to me, but I can barely imagine being a steep incline and feathering the clutch to continue to go up or get out of being...
If for some reason I can’t get the bronco. I’m buying a 1978 Ford Mustang cobra 2! In white with blue stripes, changing out the interior for all black. It’ll get a ford 8.8 rear end with disc brakes, 373 gears, 5.0 with heads and cams, manual trans, Full upgraded suspension. Not too much power...