2024 is definitely an exciting year for off-road enthusiasts, because the hottest "Internet celebrity" off-road vehicle in North America, the Ford Bronco Horse, is finally going to be made in China! Its arrival will have a big impact on both domestic and imported off-road vehicles, especially the tank family and the Jeep Wrangler.
The car has a history of nearly 60 years, and has endured, but it is relatively niche in the domestic off-road circle, but after the domestic production or will change the previous situation, after all, the first down, it is understood that the starting price or around 300,000 yuan.
As a hard-core off-road vehicle based on a non-load-bearing body structure, the Ford Liema, which is positioned as a mid-size SUV, has excellent off-road ability. And the domestic version of the Ford Flame almost authentically maintains the design of the overseas version of the model, the overall body shape is very square, and the front face adopts retro round headlights and is embellished with horizontal LED light strips in the middle; The through-design grille is connected to the headlight clusters on both sides, and in the middle of the grille is the English letter logo "Bronco", which can be said to be highly recognizable and unforgettable.
Unlike previous generations of the Bronco, which was built on a full-size pickup platform, the sixth-generation Ford Bronco is a mid-size model based on the Ford Ranger pickup platform. In addition, the new car inherits a lot of design elements from the original Bronco in terms of exterior design, and whoever wants to say that this is not a tribute to the classics, I'm afraid no one will believe it at all.
At present, the unveiling is the Wasteland and the Everglades two versions of the model, the former is high-end, and the latter is reported to be on sale in the form of a limited edition, and the specific number of sales has not yet been announced. Among them, the 35-inch outer diameter large tires directly assembled with 315 70 R17 are directly assembled in the Everglades Edition, which is a medium-sized SUV with a total length of less than 5 meters and a length of only 4 meters after removing the spare tire. Moreover, the Everglades version is also equipped with Bilstein nitrogen shocks, 47-speed ratio, front and rear differential locks, etc., can be legally on the road without modification.
What's even more surprising is that the minimum ground clearance of the Everglades version can reach 273mm, the approach angle is 45 degrees, the departure angle is 37 degrees, and the passing angle is 26 degrees, and there is a maximum wading depth of 925mm after installing the wading hose. If you don't have a concept of these data, you might as well compare the performance parameters of the tank 300, tank 400, and the equation leopard leopard 5, and you can know the cross-country parameters of the domestic bronco horse.
Although it is a hard off-road, but the configuration of the domestic bronco horse did not disappoint everyone, and even learned the essence of its own brand to make new energy vehicles, although the overall style of the car is rough, but the materials are real, the central control, seats, door panels, etc. are wrapped in a large number of soft materials, with delicate touch and no lack of luxury texture.
At the same time, the interior of the car is also equipped with 123-inch LCD instrument cluster + 12-inch LCD central control screen, and equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 high computing power chip, running memory and storage space (16G+256G), fully meet the OTA upgrade redundancy in the next 3-5 years, the performance is fully holdable, and the car machine system also supports wireless Carplay and other functions, and the practicality is not compromised.
After the domestic production of the bronco horse not only continues the strong off-road strength of the imported version, but also goes further in comfort and intelligent strength, the key is that the new car "increases the volume and reduces the price". In the past, the price of the imported version of the bronco was as high as more than 500,000 yuan, and now the starting price of the domestic bronco horse is likely to be around 300,000 yuan. In the face of competing models of independent brands such as the Tank 300, BAIC BJ40, Formula Leopard Leopard 5 and Jet Traveler, the Ford Blancco may attract the attention of more off-road players with its more pure-blooded off-road genes.