2024 Ford Bronco Big Bend deserves more accolades
With Ford Motor Co. doing a great job in recent years reusing historic nameplates, the 4-door 2024 Ford Bronco Big Bend shows up to Grasso’s Garage and what a beauty it is. Boasting a $40K base price tag, we recognize the hype in the market as Ford makes a huge play for Jeep Wrangler buyers […]
With Ford Motor Co. doing a great job in recent years reusing historic nameplates, the 4-door 2024 Ford Bronco Big Bend shows up to Grasso’s Garage and what a beauty it is. Boasting a $40K base price tag, we recognize the hype in the market as Ford makes a huge play for Jeep Wrangler buyers abound.
As Ford’s primary focus for the Bronco was outlined to steal consumers from the Jeep brand in attempts to expand the off-road culture, instead they blew it out of the park with recent pricing reductions across the FCA footprint proving the 2024 Bronco Big Bend certainly takes the cake. The Jeep Mojave and Rubicon Wranglers are certainly big enough and do whatever Jeep-lover expect as its off-road presence, comfort and abilities top the chart, but the road noise factor always seems to be there. For Bronco, not so fast. The Bronco Big Bend had reduced road noise with all of the same usages as the Wrangler; win!
Powered by a 2.3L EcoBoost inline 4-cylinder engine, the 2024 Big Bend Bronco paired exceptionally nicely with the 10-speed automatic transmission. This combination was ultra quiet and a pleasure to ride/drive. Upgrades to our Bronco tester included, Big Bend Series, Sasquatch package, the hard-gray molded top with sound deadening headliner and LED signature lighting.
Similar height stance, drive modes, boxxy exterior, roof removal options, wheel upgrades and comfort, are all similar to the competition, but the Bronco does it better as the road noise is virtually gone. With an almost 19 miles per gallon enjoyment on our 400+ mile test, we recognized some appreciation for the 2.3 Liter engine which was peppy, powerful, had no issues getting up to speed and looking good while doing so. Great work Ford; now don’t go overpricing this thing in the future!
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2024 Ford Bronco Big Bend
MSRP: $40,370
MPG: 18 city / 17 highway / 18.9 as tested
As Tested: $54,920
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