No, NO, NOOO! Not another 4-door off-road truck.
Please make this a regular or extended cab with longer bed and shorter wheelbase than the Gladiator.
If you want to seat four people, then set up the bed with lock down rails to install optional "Brat" style rear seating.
It certainly looks like cloth, but FWIW... this company has a number of textured/fabric looking options in their Marine vinyl portfolio.
https://spradlingvinyl.com/sim/catalog-patterns/
I was going to joke that instead of vinyl, they used Nauga hides in the 80's until all the little Naugas went extinct.
However, after checking the spelling, that could very well be what it is...
https://www.naugahyde.com/markets/details.cfm?marID=9
That's how I read the comparison chart.
https://www.ford.com/cmslibs/content/dam/brand_ford/en_us/brand/suvs-crossovers/bronco/pdf/21_Bronco_lineup_HR.pdf
As much as I would like to, I won't be getting to the type of trails where I would need 35's, so 33's are fine by me.
And I would really like a 2.7, but I don't NEED a 2.7, so I'm going Badlands with a manual.
I think my biggest concern is towing capacity. I was really hoping for something...
My daughter's in college now, but at age 13 I had her driving my manual '96 Mazda B4000 on the private property. She once spent over an hour starting and stopping on dirt roads and dirt hills, driving down tight trails and backing up along winding dirt roads.
In her driver's ed class, she was...
Congrats!
Looks like the one I returned once I realized FE's weren't available with a manual. :(
Take good care of it! And by that I mean enjoy the hell out of it!