Posted on 02/22/2022 6:16:31 PM PST by dynachrome
Bronco fever hasn't abated; buyers are still clamoring for the world's most recent hardcore off-roader. We'd normally consider this a good problem for Ford to have, but these aren't normal times and the Bronco isn't a normal vehicle. Two years of industry disruptions have dropped continuous bombs on delivery times, on top of Bronco-specific ailments like the defective tops that led to huge backups last summer — and all this for a rig that some buyers first signed up to buy in 2020. Automotive News reports that the chip shortage is biting especially hard into Bronco deliveries at the moment, with trucks stacking up in a lot outside the Michigan Assembly Plant that online watchers dubbed "Dirt Mountain," the coming of a snowy Michigan winter changing the name to "Ice Mountain."
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A guy at work bought one and the roof leaked immediately.
He took it back and surprisingly he got his money back.
Every time I see one of these on the road I think of OJ.
They'll fix the roof and probably sell it for thousands more.
But… but… but… I thought it was the blockades of the Canadian bridges that was holding everything up. /sarc
Nothin but trouble from my two Ford trucks. And the “engineers” are retards for how hard they make it to remove the most basic senors and parts. 25% of Ford Explorers from 2008-2010 have failed transmissions (”Exploders”) and they refused to do a recall. Bastards.
But they had to get the Canadian trucks off Windsor Bridge so they didn’t stop production.
Is OJ on the waiting list?
I didn’t see it but he said it had stained up the interior.
Every time I see one of these on the road I think of OJ.
“And I see OJ.......”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLmoqbR3gto
Then I can be like John Elway.
Forcast of the future wars!
” 25% of Ford Explorers from 2008-2010 have failed transmissions (”Exploders”) and they refused to do a recall. Bastards.”
Source?
I have seen a few of these on the road.
Nothing about them seemed “iconic’ or awesome.
Pass
Remember when cars didn’t need no stinkin’ “chips”?
And you didn’t have to be an “expert” to work on the car.
I’m not buying the chip excuse.
The factories are still running.
The dealership lots are almost empty.
Something bad is going on.
An aside on said vehicles:
So they’ve sort of brought Bronco back to its pre-fame Jap-looking days of the ‘70s. Except tried to make it look more like a Land Rover.
I still prefer the solid tough American look (of the regular truck).
“Nothing about them seemed “iconic’ or awesome.”
(See 1960s original Bronco)
Wow, that’s really bad. It is one of the nicer looking SUV’s out there and pretty good remake of the classic. That’s disappointing news.
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