2020 "Baby Bronco" revealed

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11-19-2018, 05:44 AM

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In my mind, if the baby Bronco is coming to us on the Focus chassis, then what's to become of the Escape? Will it not be a similar vehicle?

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11-19-2018, 10:10 AM

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oooops! but I did see a pic as posted on another forum.... not that big of difference.....hopefully it won't be that one either (a version of the edge IMHO)

Sounds like the Everest is what you’re writing about here. Won’t be that either. Go to the link provided again, look at the picture that has the 3 angles of the baby bronco pictured and zoom in on the middle picture and look at the shadow. Very much not the shadow of the vehicle being shown and very much a tease of what we are getting for the Bronco. A nice boxy off raider with a rear mounted spare tire.
Actually I have a screen shot of it here, hopefully this works. Can see that shadow is very much larger and boxier than the vehicle in front of it. Pretty exciting.

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11-19-2018, 01:14 PM

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In my mind, if the baby Bronco is coming to us on the Focus chassis, then what's to become of the Escape? Will it not be a similar vehicle?

The Explorer and Flex were built on the same Taurus chassis. The Escape would be the refined "city car" and the baby Bronco would be the "outdoorsy recreational vehicle"... Jeep did the same thing with the Compass and Patriot (but ditched the Patriot and stuck with the Compass). Honda had the CR-V and the Element on the same chassis also, with different degrees of refinement.

Hell, Subaru is basing all of its vehicles on the same modular global platform these days...from the compact car Impreza (Focus sized) to the 3-row Ascent (almost Explorer sized). And Honda is using a shared chassis for the Civic, CR-V, and now the Accord. So common chassis designs that can be stretched in both length and width are becoming more common to save development costs. Tweak the height, and you have cars and SUV's on the same platform.

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11-21-2018, 08:30 PM

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I sure hope we get at least another shadow teaser at LA auto show coming up.

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11-24-2018, 04:23 PM

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Only the Shadow Knows.... Was expecting something to compete against a wrangler, not a renegade/patriot/compass/commander.... Ford will go from zero cars to a whole bunch of CUVs... Where do all of the other Ford SUV/CUV's fit into this lineup? Of course only Ford knows it's line up game plan.

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12-19-2018, 02:22 AM

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From the text in this article, the vehicle in the projected slides is a baby Bronco and probably a crossover....

But it does have a more utilitarian appearance than I thought we'd see from Ford. Still waiting, I guess, for the bigger Bronco (based on the Ranger). Maybe they will use some of the same style cues to create an off-road SUV "family" kind of like Jeep with the Cherokee/Compass/Grand Cherokee having similar looks.

Edit--they talk about the "outline" of the new Bronco and it is a shadow behind the side view pic of the orange baby Bronco. Definitely squared off...

https://www.autoblog.com/2018/11/13/...Fzc8lUDmb_Ift4

Looks like Ford might be naming the baby Bronco a Scout? https://www.motorauthority.com/news/...he-baby-bronco

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05-03-2019, 12:46 PM

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Yuk. Why didn’t Ford utilize the Flex platform?

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05-03-2019, 03:08 PM

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Because they want the Baby/Maverick/Scout to be physically smaller than the Bronco, and compete with compact crossovers from Jeep etc. instead of with Ford's own lineup.

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05-03-2019, 05:36 PM

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Yuk. Why didn’t Ford utilize the Flex platform?

The Flex is based on a really long and heavy Taurus chassis and was Ford's "city minivan" replacement....why would they build a tough off-roader on that platform? Especially if they are slotting it below the new Bronco, which itself is probably going to be somewhere between the Escape and Edge in size.

Small unit-body vehicles can be tough...Subarus have proven to be really tough over the years, and the new Bronco Scout will likely compete with the Crosstrek.

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