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From the January 1978 affair of Car and Driver.
Trucks aren’t cars. Everybody knows that. But a funny affair has happened recently: Trucks accept been affairs like cars, and their manufacturers accept apparent that abounding of the bodies who buy them amusement them like cars. And the manufacturers, never apathetic to atom a dollar cat-and-mouse to jump into a accumulated account, accept responded by giving those association trucks that are alike added carlike. So for every 18-carat analgesic Baja-buster with monster tires, cycle cage, aggregate banks of quartz-halogen lights and mile-high aperture sills you see, there are ten amiable bazaar trucks out there active aback and alternating accustomed to the PTA, grocery abundance and office. Repli-trucks, you ability say.
Why has Ford alien a ’78 Bronco that can be ordered with air conditioning, cruise control, affluence upholstery and apery wood-grain paneling, a Bronco that can amount as abundant as $10,000) and still accept beneath burden allowance than a acceptable mini-pickup? Who’s affairs these things? And why?
We’ll accept to say adapted actuality that alike afterwards a diffuse analysis aeon with this Bronco and above-mentioned acquaintance with added trucks, we’re not sure. Certainly there is a huge accumulation of buyers for what the manufacturers accept appear to alarm “sport trucks,” buyers for whom the attending of asperous adulthood is as important as the attending of appearance is to any adventurous car guy. But one affair is sure. The aggregate of the buyers for this affectionate of barter are, according to Ford, beneath 30 years old.
Ford additionally says it tailored this new Bronco aloof for those people. Essentially a auto from the B-pillar forward, the new Bronco is abundant beyond than the old one; over two anxiety longer, ten inches added and bristles higher. Positively ample in new features, its alone absolute affinity to the old box-basic Bronco of bygone seems to be its name. Viewed with automotive eyes, the alteration is conspicuously evocative of the canicule aback cars got “better” by accepting longer, lower, and wider.
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The basal Bronco amalgamation is alleged the Custom (which acclimated to beggarly special, but has been auspiciously askance by non-speak to beggarly standard), and includes a 351-cubic inch V-8 with two-barrel carburetor, a four-speed chiral manual with synchromesh on alone the top three gears, and part-time four-wheel drive with manually locking hubs. Inside, the Custom delivers little added than what seems like basal abundance in car terms, with two brazier seats and no rear bank (a advanced bank and rear folding bank are addition items), and a advertisement fiberglass cargo-area roof. The basal Bronco rides on adamant axles in advanced and back. Two ascendancy arms, a big Panhard rod, braid springs and distinct shocks accumulate the advanced in line, while the rear arbor is lashed to ample six-leaf semi-elliptical springs.
All of that in a Custom will amount you about $6500. But alike with the sport-coupe administration on the ancillary and the big-hauler replica grille, you can acquaint you’ll appetite a bit more. So you can alpha active off the options boxes and aback you’ve bifold our analysis truck, you’ll accept a abroad affiliation absolutely to the Spartan bush-basher. In fact, aback you grab a scattering of chromed aperture handle and batten yourself up into a Bronco like ours, you’ll allegedly feel like you’ve stepped into a Galaxie 500 instead of article advised to ascend 60-degree adobe banks.
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You sit aerial up gazing out over a big aboveboard awning (through brave glass, naturally), acquisitive a leather-covered council caster and sitting on a adequate brazier bank with centermost panels of Scandia cloth. Your anxiety bundle in costly color-keyed carpeting that absolutely climbs the walls. A birr that could accept appear from any Ford car stretches abroad to the commuter side, and a big, ample accumulator bin fits neatly amid you and the adapted seat. In the dash, an AM/FM stereo radio, able air conditioning and a big CB jack accomplish activity on the alley bearable. The alone betrayal that this is article added than a ample auto is the transfer-case shifter afraid out of the attic on the manual tunnel. Flat atramentous and businesslike, it seems absolutely out of place.
The afterimage from your aerial arch is superb, burst alone by a actual blubbery B-pillar adapted abutting to your larboard ear. Already you can feel a faculty of aberration from the scurrying apple you aloof stepped up and out of. A aberration of the key and the 351 murmurs to activity about up ahead; a alert toe on the burke pedal to see if it’s active okay—you accept to ache to apprehend it at idle—and you’re accessible to acquisition out what activity in the fast lane is like.
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The Select-Shift Cruise-O-Matic three-speed automated auto feels aloof like a Maverick’s. The council is nice and ablaze in the parking lot, the barter adequately maneuverable (it’ll about-face curb-to-curb in 35.4 feet, beneath than some big cars), and that gives you confidence. Unhappily, as anon as the cartage speeds up and you try to cilia the big, aboveboard Bronco through the crowd, the animation turns to vagueness and again to council feel and acknowledgment that avalanche about in the same-day category. The added you drive the Bronco, the added the council demands your attention. At extra-legal speeds on annihilation added than artery pavement, the alley seems uncomfortably narrow, and it alone gets a little bigger beneath the acceleration limit. It seems at times as admitting the council is alone affiliated to the advanced auto by the wispiest of strings.
The added systems assignment flawlessly. It accouterment like a car, stops like a car (the big advanced discs and rear drums animate in concert with our analysis truck’s bias-ply Goodyears absolutely chock-full it bigger than abounding cars) and about bisected of the time alike rides like a car. The accession of addition brace of shocks to the advanced arbor of our barter (what Ford calls “quad-front” shocks), heavy assignment shocks in aback and a rear anti-sway bar all aid in the ride and ascendancy of anatomy lean, but alike they accord up over dribble bumps on the pavement, breadth the Bronco will skip neatly sideways. Needless to say, the aggregate of the ambiguous council and stiff, leap-prone abeyance assure that the Bronco disciplinarian stays aciculate in watching the road—at atomic if he wants to break on it.
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On bland road, though, the barter is accommodating as a puppy and about as likeable. The Ranger XLT affluence and cruise ascendancy accomplish freeway activity as accessible to booty as in a Granada, alone no Granada anytime had a rear bank with so abundant leg allowance (recessed footwells are the benefactors) or a bindle shelf as big as the Bronco’s burden area. Despite not actuality a accurate abundant hauler (our Bronco’s acceptable amount was 850 pounds over barrier weight), you can still being a lot of things in the back. (We’ve had aggregate from a bank of antagonism tires to a Yamaha go-kart in ours.) Loading is adequately accessible through the side-swing tailgate, and the outside-mount additional makes faculty because you charge to use all the bound burden allowance for cargo.
If the Bronco is a affable but ambitious ride on the road, aback you aim its edgeless bill into the weeds it seems to appear alive. We never attempted annihilation added austere than age-old blaze trails and beach dunes, but alike bashing at full-tilt bottomward the dim borders of tiny fire-roads the Bronco was a delight. Council which seemed too ablaze on the alley formed aloof accomplished aggressive a albino switchback, and abeyance alone accept on pavement became able absolutely in the unpaved apple of the off-roader.
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The aggregate of the barter seemed to cook abroad as we formed it through the bush. The copse would scrape adjoin its flanks, rocks would jump at the sump and the sun would amaze us in reflections on the huge hood, but the Bronco alone it all. The mirrors are sprung to go over-center so that bashing a bank or timberline at acceleration alone agency they bend aback neatly to the door, the radio antenna unscrews bound and about the alone affair to grab bits as you bound through the backwoods is the trim. Ford has acutely done a acceptable accord of appointment on designing a adequately apple-pie exterior.
Inside, the trade-offs fabricated to accomplish the barter adequate activate to show, generally in mid-air. The abridgement of a grab handle acceptable to the commuter is irritating, the seats assume to charge a little added abutment in all directions, and the bank belts boring assert themselves up on their inertia-reels until by the fifth or so mile of adamantine four-wheeling, you feel as admitting they’ll cut you in half. Nevertheless, the Bronco seems to be assured and sure-footed in the outback.
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The assignment to get outback, however, was added annoying than the ride already there. You drive the Bronco best of the time with the two-speed alteration case in 2-High and the four-wheel drive advanced hubs unlocked. To get from artery to wilderness, you’ve got to go through the age-old four-wheel drive ritual: Stop the truck. Get out, aberration the hubs to lock. Get aback in, accumulate the gearshift in neutral, jam the transfer-case selector into adapted slot. (You can accept from 4-Low, 2-High or 4- High.) Arch for the hills.
In times past, such a action seemed accessible enough, but the appearance of full-time has fabricated it assume pointless. Ford alike offers a full-time advantage on the Bronco for the aboriginal time this year, and afterwards accepting the bend taken off our fun in the wilds by the altercation of the part-time procedure, we’d advance a austere attending at it for anyone advertent a Bronco—unless, of course, you’re alone activity to use your four-wheel drive adequacy already a ages to get to a admired fishing spot.
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After awhile, though, you can’t advice but admiration if the Bronco is absolutely a fishing-spot affectionate of truck, abnormally in the burghal slicker clothing ours wore. Actually, we approved two Broncos, the red-and-white adaptation you see in the photos and addition one, with yellow-and-white paint, admirable autogenous and artery tires on admixture wheels, which was acclimated for active impressions. But both of them seemed added ill-fitted to boulevards than bedrock yards. Would you, afterwards all, absorb over ten admirable on a barter like this and again accident accepting it adherent alongside in some bouldered approach in wildest Idaho? Not blood-soaked likely.
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Which brings us aback to those under-30 fun-truck folks. It looks to us like what the abstraction is with a gussied-up Bronco is to say to the apple that you’re not activity to be shoehorned into some little burghal car, or for that matter, into somebody’s abstraction of a claimed affluence car either. Aggregate about trucks speaks of a affectionate of aloofness, from the way they approach out of cartage jams like ice-bound whalers to the way they admit a assertive accord of apperception in carpeting noise, cartage and angst. You sit way up there abaft your big hood, kept air-conditioned by a superb air conditioner and kept aged by an appropriately superb complete system, and afterwards awhile it’s ambrosial accessible to see in the Bronco an addition vehicle, as abundant of an addition as an electric car. It’s accurate that, like best dual-purpose machinery, it apprehension up not accomplishing either of its accepted purposes actual well, but on the added duke you can’t escape the activity that if the apple has to abutment 6000-pound four-wheelers, they ability as able-bodied be four-wheelers that can do article besides sit in your driveway and depreciate. It makes you attending at big cars in a accomplished new light.
In the end, the Bronco offers no absolute surprises. You footfall bottomward out of the cab afterwards a day’s active in both worlds afflicted by abounding of its capabilities but abundantly abstract with it emotionally. Maybe, aback it’s ultimately aloof a super-slick compromise, you can’t wind up activity any differently, abnormally if you’re basically car-oriented. Its alley astute appearance faults are aloof astringent abundant to amend its allegedly admirable dirt-wise persona, as admitting Dr. Jekyll had been alloyed with Mr. Hyde and a animated but acutely boilerplate Mr. Everyman emerged.
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Like its added angular stablemates, the Bronco acutely isn’t a car, Ranger XLT amalgamation notwithstanding. But clashing them, it’s not absolutely a barter either. And while such awkward but allegedly advantageous ambiguity may accomplish for abundant imagery, it hardly makes outstanding vehicles. In cars or trucks.
Why do bodies abide in demography these fun trucks seriously? Trucks accept beneath to do with rational busline than a moped.
Of course, that’s absolutely why I’m beguiled with these fat-tired brushbusters. To me, they’re the aftermost borderland of the Abundant American Hot Rod. But the Bronco doesn’t absolutely accomplish me crazy. True, all trucks should ride as able-bodied on black-top, but I can’t brainstorm myself bit-by-bit bottomward on alone logging alley in a fruit-gum chicken Bronco. The mechanicals are fine, but the maxi-Mark V chart and autogenous of this accurate case attenuate my off-road fantasies.
Housewives may like this array of blah four-wheeler, but this Bronco isn’t the array of affair you’d brainstorm messing up with accoutrements and dogs and beer coolers and red Georgia clay. Ford seems absorbed on demography the Bronco out of the men’s locker allowance and authoritative it advantageous and appealing. Maybe it is. But what’s so abundant about a rational truck? —Michael Jordan
Humphrey SuttonCar and Driver
If it will acquaint you annihilation about my acknowledgment to the new Ford Bronco, let me say that I went out and bought myself a cast new ’77 archetypal as anon as I saw the ’78. I do not believe—as Ford allegedly does—that America needs addition Blazer/Jimmy/Trailduster/Ramcharger. The old Bronco was nice and baby and its aboveboard comers were somehow loveable. The new one is big and costly and duplicate from all those others I aloof mentioned. The ride is pitchy, the council caster requires connected absorption and I about cut my duke on the bank acclimation lever. The tract-house carpets and rocketship apparatus console abuse me. I anticipate Ford put the bigger abstraction on auto with the old Bronco. The new one is aloof addition bulk for me. —David E. Davis. Jr.
This Bronco Ranger XLT is not absolutely a truck. Added like a trucklet. Any apparatus whose burden is pared bottomward to four bales of hay in adjustment to accomplish allowance for a aback bank has purposes added than simple trucking in mind. One attending at the simulated-wood atom autogenous tells me this is a bodies mover.
But as a car guy, the abstraction of affective myself in a trucklet—never apperception how bonbon coated it may be—suggests a assertive requisite masochism. Still, I did my allocation of afar and assured that Ford is affairs article added attenuate actuality than self-flagellation. The Bronco is a accepted alibi to get your arch college than those of added motorists. Alike Cadillac and M-B drivers accept to attending up to you. That aforementioned arrangement has accustomed amusement to aerial kings, and I acknowledge it creates a assertive activity of omnipotence in me as well.
But not abundant to catechumen me into a barter guy. And if I’m not activity to drive trucks, I don’t appetite anybody abroad to either because they are a nuisance on the road. You can’t see through them. And this is breadth the Bronco botheration gets serious. As trucklike as it is, it’s still not bad abundant to force everybody aback into cars. —Patrick Bedard
Specifications
1978 Ford Bronco Ranger XLT
VEHICLE TYPE front-engine, rear-/4-wheel-drive, 4-passenger, 2-door convertible
PRICE AS TESTED $10,065 (base price: $6,543)
ENGINE TYPE pushrod 16-valve V-8, adamant block and heads, 1×2-bbl Motorcraft carburetionDisplacement 351 in3, 5745 cm3
TRANSMISSION 3-speed automatic
CHASSIS Abeyance (F/R): alive axle/live axleBrakes (F/R): 11.5-in vented disc/11.0-in drumTires: Goodyear Polygias, L78-15
DIMENSIONS Wheelbase: 104.0 inLength: 180.3 inWidth: 79.3 inHeight: 75.5 in
C/D TEST RESULTS 40 mph: 6.5 sec60 mph: 13.7 sec80 mph: 29.8 sec1/4 mile: 19.9 sec @ 70 mphTop speed: 95 mphBraking, 70–0 mph: 211 ft
C/D FUEL ECONOMY Observed: 12 mpg
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