Ford teased a conceptual design sketch of a brand new Bronco pickup Wednesday in a video detailing a number of the processes that introduced the outside and inside of the revived 4×4 nameplate to life. The pickup design, noticed by Bronco6g.com, reveals up briefly in a storyboard utilized by designers who have been attempting to brainstorm concepts for making the Bronco extra helpful in on a regular basis duties.
The sketches seem (conveniently) on the 2:00 mark within the above video, exhibiting a few angles of an idea four-door Bronco with a pickup mattress and another equipment, together with a tailgate extension. The unique Ford Bronco was provided in a pickup variant, so it is no shock that the notion has been floating round Ford’s design studios. It is particularly vital contemplating that the Bronco’s solely actual rival, the Jeep Wrangler, lastly spawned a pickup variant within the Gladiator. A corresponding Bronco (or spinoff mannequin) looks as if a no brainer in that context.
On the opposite aspect of that coin, Ford provides much more pickups than FCA. The Gladiator’s solely inside competitor with a mattress is the Ram, which is in a completely completely different measurement class. Ford provides the Ranger, which shares the Bronco’s proportions as a result of the 2 are mechanical siblings, and can also be anticipated to promote the Maverick — a unibody, front-(and certain all-)wheel-drive mannequin to fit beneath the midsize Ranger — right here within the States.
Ford has made fairly a little bit of noise in regards to the Bronco’s modular physique, which permits for fairly a little bit of customization, whether or not from the manufacturing facility or aftermarket. It is attainable {that a} light-duty accent mattress might be provided with out Ford having to go to the difficulty of fidgeting with the Bronco’s wheelbase. Actually, the wheel arch in these sketches seems to be in the identical spot it’s on the manufacturing 4-door mannequin. Ford even highlighted that potential versatility on this very video.
How (and even whether or not) they determine to comprehend this idea stays to be seen, however we will not assist however discover that Ford likes to cover future ideas in plain sight like this. It did the identical with the launch of the ultimate era of the Ford Fusion, the place the eventual Sport mannequin was teased with an ST badge. We’re not saying it is best to get excited, merely that you simply should not rule it out.
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