Does your significant other drive your Bronco?

[not on the rug]

My wife occasionally drives my vehicles because I tend to live in the world of "smiles per gallon" whereas she is a bit more practical. Case in point, her last 2 vehicles were new Nissan Pathfinder Limiteds.

Many of my cars were always manual, so she never bothered to learn how to drive stick, but I had a really nice R51 Pathfinder project truck that I built that she would take out if the weather was snowy and she needed to. She loved it.

She also loves the X5M but only drives it occasionally. Then again who doesn't love 600hp and some paddle shifters. I can hear her ripping through the gears a mile away (yes, it's loud) when she drives it.

She absolutely loves the Bronco and might even consider getting one when her current lease is over. Her favorite is when the doors are off. She's only 5'2" and tiny, but loves jumping up into the Bronco and the way it drives. Yeah...she's probably going to want one when the Pathfinder lease is over.

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[Murraydog11]

I tried to get her drive it. She did once, and it freaked her too much.

 

[jlj4660]

My wife has her own to drive. She's loves them almost as much as me

 

[zoober]

My wife doesn't drive my Bronco, and I don't drive her Jeep.
If one of ours are unavailable for any reason, (shop, etc). We take the Buick.
But my wife is the one that told me to go get a Bronco, when we sold the RV and got tired of the F250 hard ass ride. So I did.

 

[vbrad26]

Technically, the bronco IS hers....

 

[KDWright5407]

My wide really loves her car: 23 Hyundai Palisade Caligraphy. Pretty much a luxury car, priced lower than my Bronco. She likes riding in the Bronco, but really likes driving her car with cooled, massaging, leather seats, a heads-up display, color changing ambient lighting, good gas mileage, and true lane-centering and stop-and-go adaptive cruise control (heck, I use that last bit more than here...almost a self-driving car at that point).

 

[WillGoesBoing]

When we first bought it she drove it a few times, and said she hated it because it felt too high up and wide for her. Plus there's no front parking cam/sensors and she doesn't know how to back into a parking spot. Every now and then I'll convince her to drive it on short easy trips.

But I have to say that a part of me is glad she doesn't drive it because in 2017 we bought a brand new Toyota Highlander top trim, fully loaded, and in the first week she wedged the side of the car against the side of the garage. Scraped up the rear passenger door and rear quarter and took out the plastic trim.

 

[Danielsand]

In my case......I AM the "significant other" (Bronco is hers), but I drive it 90% of the time (I'm just a selfish bastard as some of you know).

 

[zoober]

Technically, the bronco IS hers....

Naw. She don’t want it. The only way it becomes hers is if I croak.
She’s been a stay at home mom/wife for the 38 years we’ve been married. She knows who buys everything. For me and her.

 

[box986]

I got it for the wife since her Bronco Sport was up on lease. She realized she could never drive it after I became obsessed with the truck while waiting for it to arrive, so it's now my toy and we bought out the lease on the Sport. She claims she will never drive it as she is afraid to wreck my toy lol. Sport is perfect for her, she ain't much of a truck person we realized.

 

[contented]

I drive it when in Moab, but this sign says it all otherwise.

 

[Danielsand]

I drive it when in Moab, but this sign says it all otherwise.

I bet you get a lot of looks when you drive it alone, huh?

 

[contented]

I bet you get a lot of looks when you drive it alone, huh?

The sticker has generated its fair share of thumbs up. In all honesty, I drive it about half the time. She was the one who decided she wanted it initially. I resisted for a while, but figured she let me get my M2, so why not get what she wants. Turns out I really like the Bronco and wheeling. Making our third trip to Moab in two weeks. It will be three years old next week and has 59k miles.

 

[CarGuy]

One of my daughters drove it for the first time today to get coffee - had it for 3 years and they can take any of my cars when they want, but don’t. They like their cars

 

[vbrad26]

Naw. She don’t want it. The only way it becomes hers is if I croak.
She’s been a stay at home mom/wife for the 38 years we’ve been married. She knows who buys everything. For me and her.

Lol congrats on approaching 40 years!
My wife and I have been together for about 18 years, married for 11.
She "stays home" too, but is still quite busy with chauffeuring our kids around for various activities.
So the Bronco is the kid hauler, and she's the primary driver, but I drive it occasionally.

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