The Ford Bronco Sport is one of the most capable compact SUVs in America. Everyone thinks so. Engineers. Cryptid monsters. Automotive journalists.
OK, maybe not the National Park Service. But their favorite 8-foot hairy customer does.
Ford will bring its famous Sasquatch package to its little off-roader later this month. Bigfoot told the world himself in an Instagram post this week.
The Bronco Sport, in case you haven’t needed to know until now, is not the boxy, rugged Bronco that takes the mud fight to the Jeep Wrangler. It’s a smaller, compact SUV that shares some bones with the Ford Maverick pickup.
It uses all-wheel drive (AWD), not 4-wheel drive (4WD). But despite what might seem like a handicap, it can hold its own on some of America’s most challenging trails with its Goes Over Any Terrain (yes, GOAT. Not kidding) terrain select system.
The Bronco Sport starts at $31,390, including delivery fees, though we expect a Sasquatch edition to carry a starting price closer to $40,000.
Sasquatch is a playful term and package that Ford introduced for the most off-road capable version of its big brother Bronco. On the big Bronc, it adds 35-inch mud tires and big fender flares to cover them, front and rear locking differentials, Bilstein shocks with added reservoirs, and more.
Most of that equipment would make sense on the Bronco Sport, save the differentials. We’ll have to wait to find out what Ford adds to a Sport ‘squatch, but not long.
In the announcement video posted to Instagram, a Bigfoot arm scratches “8/26” into the mud on the tailgate of a Bronco Sport. So we expect details later this month.
