I understand that base model Broncos aren't really what most people want, but the inability to find a model that's not priced over 50k is pretty demoralizing.

That prototype at the end is the Chinese market Ford EVOS.

Why does it feel like I'm the only one who appreciates the fact that I won't have to remove a silly engine cover to install mods?

Thanks for the video. I have a Outer Banks and really enjoy it. I went with the 2.3L and getting 23 MPG. I'm eventually going to swap out the tires for a little wider profile but do recommend for highly for daily driving!

Every time I see under hood shots of these Bronco’s, I just am shocked at what a mess of wires, hoses are running all around the engine.

9K miles on a 4-door 2.3L Outer Banks with soft top. 25 MPG overall so far. I drive mostly in the sweet sopt of 40-50MPH zones in suburbs. Took it on a trip with our family of 4 and it handled the trip great. Loud on the highway, but fine for occasional road trips like that and awesome for daily driving. Hard top looks better, but i would never trade my soft-top for one, it's just so awesome to be able to flip that top back any time i want.

Bronco for daily driving and Geo Metro for off-roading, only way to go 😉

@TFLnow: The Outerbanks trims is perfect for what you describe, on road driving. I love the pained fender flares and mirror caps. The price when adding the 2.7 EB and Lux brought it up to Lexus GX territory so I decided to go with that. Not as flashy but gets the job done.

I have 16K miles on my '21 Outer Banks soft top Bronco; 1 year and flawless so far! Way better than a Wrangler to daily drive, and I have the 2.3L I4 Turbo and it is great!

Tommy, another great review. After watching your pre view I ordered the OBX in Cyber Orange with the soft top and blue leather. I have had it a while, and use the OBX Lux for my daily driver. Two things you have wrong: one, "it's got these 1,800 dollar wheels" that's the 2.7 V6 cost. Those wheels are standard. two, this DOES HAVE lane centering! You have to turn it on in settings. When delivered, they don't have this turned on from the factory, but it's there and it works. Not full blue cruise, but lane centering with option of how aggressive it will turn to center. I can add that the 2.3 as a daily is also powerful at 300hp. I average 24mpg over 15,000 miles. 19mpg and 1800 is significant price to pay for 30 more hp. I would not complain about an engine being too smooth and powerful if I had the 2.7!

Good job Tommy, it's amazing how far 4×4's have come in just a few short years. I had a 1996 F150 4×4 that I lifted 3 inches & ran 35's, drove it every weekend down at the outer banks here in N.C, (fishing) mainly sand driving. One of these new Broncos would be perfect for that.

We just took delivery like 6 weeks ago of this exact bronco, same exact options and all and could not be happier, the 2.7l engine is quite impressive

Tommy, when you first came to TFL I said “who is this nerdy looking guy”? Man, your presentation skills are exceptional! I enjoy watching you. Thanks.

I own a 2022 Outer Banks Bronco that is almost identical to the tested Bronco in this video. Area 51, MIC top, 2.7L V-6, Lux package, towing, etc. I opted for the cloth seats instead of leather, though. The review was very fair. It is my daily driver, and I commute 70+ miles daily. I get better gas mileage than what is on the sticker, though. With just over 10K miles on the Bronco, I average 21.2MPG combined. (80% highway driving) The drive quality is every bit as good as my last sedan, and even with the 4 door, it has a fantastic turn radius....making parking very easy. I do NOT take it off road and never planned to. I bought it for Michigan winters. This is the first vehicle I have owned that has adaptive cruise control and all of the other goodies that come with the Co-Pilot 360 setup. I will never have another vehicle that does not have adaptive cruise control. It is so convenient on the highway....reacting to traffic slowdowns and easing. I don't even have to have my foot on the gas pedal for 95% of my drive to/from work....which is a real blessing as being able to move my foot/leg helps to alleviate sciatic pain. Just one of the perks I didn't know I would get when buying this vehicle. It is the best vehicle that I have ever owned. My only gripes are the wind noise above 70mph (and I really don't care that much...the B&O sound system is great) and the lack of power seats without opting for leather. I really like power seats but went with cloth seats so I wouldn't fry my legs when the top is off in the summer. Bottom line: Ford hit an absolute home run with the Bronco.

Own this exact model down to the Area 51 color except I have the heavy duty bumper. 6 months in and I have not found anything to complain about. I have the 2.7L and have upgraded the tires to more aggressive off road tread and the ride quality is great. Maybe the only gripe I might have is for $56k some of the plastic pieces bug me slightly. Power from the 2.7L is great and it’s great fun to drive! Fit and finish on mine is great so far.

I finally got my 2023 Outer Banks 2 door Lux with the 2.7 Eruption green. Waited nearly two years and I love it. Ordered in September of 21 and received it July of 23.

This model with the painted bits looks much more like a finished vehicle worthy of the price.

Great video. This is the exact package/trim I’m hoping to get.🤞🏾

Thanks. This is the version I hope to get someday...

Not bad For that price point I want ventilated seats and not as much plastic

We love our 2door OBX Area 51, 2.7, Lux package and Aux switches.

Totally love my 2.7L high pkg 4dr Outer banks, so I bought a 2dr 2.3L Lux pkg that was an abandoned order. My wife “claimed” the 2dr so once again I have my 4dr 👍🏽👍🏽

I have the two door outer banks and i like it,, its a nice ride lots of room. Other then it being a four bucket seater and the trunk room is smaller i still don’t mind it. It can get loud on the highway but nothing like the Sasquatch would be with the big tires. Stereos is really nice in it..

0:53 This! This is exactly what's wrong with the off-road segment these days. Remember when Jeeps were affordable back in the day and they offered vehicles that weren't destined to become concrete princesses🤦🏻‍♂️

i love it when are these coming to Australia?

Thanks for making this video! This is the exact trim and package I want one day. Did they get rid of the digital temp on the knobs and passenger power seats due to chip shortage?

I like the uncovered engine bay personally

I believe that car at 13:50 was a Ford Evos. Great catch!

That was the Ford Evos, it’s basically a far better looking Edge type of vehicle sold in China. Runs the 2.0T I believe.

They are still really well optioned with some great capability still. I do like the interior and day to day liveability of the Bronco over the Wrangler. Another feature of the side steps is they help care for the exterior. If you are wise enough to add mud guards as well, the door frames will stand up a long time. Climbing in using the steps saves the side of the seats from crushing as bad as just scrunching in. Depends on how much you like caring for your vehicles. Still far prefer the 2 door vs the 4 door. Even more so than in the Wrangler.

The outer banks is a great daily driver, 40k miles in just over 10 months. I have a 2 door OBX 2.7 advanced 4x4 with the Lux and Tow packages - and I wheeled it this weekend. The stock wheels are very good on the highway, but I am running on 33.5" tires usually. The stock OBX shocks and springs are more compliant on the highway, but I swapped them out for the Badlands shocks and springs for wheeling my mall crawler. The cloth seats are nicer than the leather, and $2200 cheaper. You have to add additional weatherstripping to get the wind noise handled.

Im 5'10 and the step is not needed when get into the car but get out of the car. It is not necessary for me but sometimes it helps

OK… Got to mention this. Holy P90X, Tommy! Glad to see you (all) getting healthy.

My build is scheduled for 10/10 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Finallyyyy

I’ve noticed that green MSRP stickers are custom orders and the blue ones are dealer orders.

OB Broncos also her the HOSS 2.0 suspension vs the 1.0 in the Big Bend. Personally I dont notice much of a difference between the two on surface roads but the 2.0 gets a little more suspension travel.

Do all outer banks come with rear lockers standard ?

This is my EXACT car with the trim, color, and hard top. It's been my daily since June 30 and I absolutely love it. It's perfect for my family and I. I didn't pay a cent over MSRP. I'll keep this car for a long time or until a hybrid comes out.

If you live in a place where you have to parallel park on tight city streets, I wonder why you would need a Bronco. It is kind of a cute thing, especially the Outer Banks model in that color. Marvelous review. Thank you.

Im just curious does the manual still get a key start?or is that push button too?

As some one who is currently daily driving a 1990 F150 this may have to be a knew purchase for me to keep some mile off the old F150

Oh man the TFL crew literally passing my house and I missed them... devastating 😪

As someone with a little experience, as long as there are widows your car is never secure: soft or hard top.

Does the hard top vibrate at highway speeds?

Ford did a great job on the Bronco. It's well worth considering.

Excellent content right here. (at least for me) This is what a review should be about. Detailed walk arounds are nice, but let's face it for those that are doing serious cross shopping and getting ready to go out for their own test drives, it is great to have a perception already given. As stated here the 4R ride is a bit nicer. IF I were cross shopping for a daily SUV between the jeep, 4R, and Bronco today, I would still take the 4R for long term ownership. However, as nice as this Bronco seems to be, I would think the Bronco Sport would be a better on road experience as a commuter. And from the reviews on it, it seems to be very very capable to take you off the pavement on the weekends for hiking, camping, etc. There are certainly more plush on road rides and more economical on road SUV/CUV's to choose from, but this is not horrific I suppose. A 5 out of 10 daily driver. (figuring the Sport would be closer to a 7 out of 10)

A LOT of SUVs grow up to be snow cars I think. I bet a lot of people buy four-wheel drive and all-wheel drive for the snow. It doesn't snow a lot where I'm at but that's kind of what I think... Otherwise why make something with four wheel drive with poor ground clearance (happens a lot).

3:05 tommy being tommy, saying tommy things. They left the engine cover off to save costs, and now its easier to work on/upgrade your Bronco.

I am nowhere near close to buying a bronco, but this is the one I would get in my imaginary world of owning one

I love the bronco. I have had my outerbanks for about a year and I enjoy driving it daily

Oh yes, hands down, the Bronco is a much better daily driver than the Jeep Wrangler. At least with the Bronco, it has predictable body-on-frame S.U.V. driving manners whereas the Wrangler is darty, unrefined, loud, and awkwardly seated. And yet most are bought as pavement princesses and never used for what they were built for. I don't get why so many people put up with it, the look maybe? Sure, the Bronco buyers are no exception in terms of intended purpose but at least it was built with on-road driving manners in mind rather than the solely off-road focused Wrangler. However, the best daily Bronco is the Bronco Sport. What is essentially a Ford Escape unibody crossover with a Bronco-style body on top. This vehicle truly represents what most Bronco owners will be using theirs for; on-road daily drivers with light-duty off-road capability at their disposal.

How is the MSRP on par with my 2022 Big Bend

Yes

Pricey, when my 2 door manual Badlands was $48,000

I guess Tommy went to deerborn for the super duty event

Is it louder on highway than the wrangler

12:55 when the exact same car drives by in the background

As a dog owner, how is the AC cooling power for the rear seat area? Thanks for all the great information!

I had an OBX i4 for a year. Great performance. But not a great daily driver for these 3 reasons: very noisy on the inside, back seat not comfortable for the kids, and the tailgate is a pain in the ass to operate.

my 22 badlands finally gets build week of 10/10! i can't wait!

Is this still a good capable trim for off roading? Not like overlanding or anything. Just normal/rough dirt roads

Hard to jjustify that much money with no rear AC events living in Arizona. Makes it undrivable for 3 to 4 months out of the year.

Just wait for the new 4Runner

I love the blue piping and accents. Maybe a coup-ish Escape or Edge? Looks to be Edge sized.

It just hit me, what you all need is a mom. Daily driver? How can you test this without doing the school pick up and drop off line? Did you try to put in more then one car seat? Did you take a trip to Costco or get groceries? Can you clean up vomit or poop easily? How many dogs will this fit? Not all moms drive minivans. A new perspective might help TFL....

The white SUV crossover that you saw was a Ford Mustang SUV

I would love to see more comparisons against the 4Runner. That seems like a much closer match than the Wrangler.

I should hope so since its my only vehicle lol

Lmao I have been driving for 45 years I drove some real piles of shit in my time , so to question any modern made car as a daily driver is laughable. That being said I love my base model 2 door Sasquatch. It don’t have half the shit my fully loaded rocky ridge F150 has but it has enough. And it is a joy to drive in the mountains try driving a full size pickup on some mountain rds lol. Also I had a 69 bronco I paid 200 bucks for when I was younger and it was my daily driver , you people don’t know what rd noise is lol. The wipers broke so I had string running through the windows to pull them back and forth till I could get a motor at the junk yard. Great times !

Want a nice on road suv? Save 10k and buy a Kia telluride. This is almost Lexus GX460 money! This should be mid 40s.

I love this vehicle, but I really dislike how Ford is catering less and less to mainstream working Americans and more toward people with deep pockets (or who take on an obscene amount of debt) willing to double the base price with frivolous beauty packages. It's a telling sign when Fords are costing more than comparable Toyotas. Silly money. For $60k+ give me a Toyota Sequoia. A lot more vehicle for the money and no doubt better reliability.

Those painted fenders…. Hmmmm. I don’t hate it as much as I thought I would.

Price on the Bronco is showing it's too high in my area. (Eastern Canada) They are staying on lots not sold right away. Most Bronco are well over 60-70K here.

Was that not a Mach E?

Knowing what you know now would you buy it again? I'm supposed to pick up my Outer Banks next month

really what is with the stitching, even on the car builder page, nowhere does it say blue stitching

Dude has put on healthy weight. A damsel must be around somewhere 😉

Feel like the higher end models should have had the body colored handles…..imo

What is the point of a six cylinder turbo if you're still looking at 19 overall MPG??? At lease with a V8 you'd have the authoritative rumble and bragging rights to go along with it. Also, 3500 towing? My 2 door Wrangler JK is rated for the same. I have been wanting a new Bronco since they came out with the concept car nearly twenty years ago, but so many sacrifices for the nameplate, I think a Chevy would be a better fit (for anyone not driving the Baja 1000).

Wait a second...I have a crew cab F150 with a 5.0 liter V8 and get the same gas mileage, probably better...has a ton more room and way more function with a BED.

Translation" "A little bit loud" means loud as a blender.

For the first minute thought it was a bronco sport lol

What’s hysterical is I don’t see it surviving on the beaches of the “Outer Banks” and… it’s definitely not a wrangler.

I actually might be selling my '21 Bronco Outer Banks... I currently have a 2021 Ford Outer Banks 4 cylinder, advanced auto 4x4, with 4.27 Gear Ratio, Rear Locker, Aux switches, High Package and more. Soft Top Velocity Blue w/ Roast Cloth Interior. Mint condition with 8,400 miles. It has stock wheels with upgraded Nitto Ridge Grappler tires P275 70R18. It also has a fully custom sound system. It's a 7-speaker Kicker setup w/ 400 Amp, Sub, and controller. It was a professional / custom install & it blows the Lux (Bang & Olufsen) setup out of the water. If you're near NorCal and you're interested shoot me an offer or a message...

Why would you hide the engine with a cover? So, they can change $5000 for that option? That sounds like a city thing to sound.

Wasn't the entire point of not covering the engine so people can service the engine out in the field?

About the only thing I have to add is that dash color is Much better than the white one that comes on the Raptor 🤮

It’s a good Wrangler competitor. Can’t say I care for that rats nest wiring and duct work. The upside of a NA engine is it’s easier to work on.

Still not a fan of these Broncos. I am keeping my Toyota FJ Cruiser for life. 🙂

it needs ecoboost v8.

Why does the guys driving the benz in min 14:06 look like Vector from the Minions LOL

No one would want to daily drive something as big as this

Damn. So much wiring under the hood you can't even see the engine.

if you are a rural VET then look out.. an urban Hummer jockey not so much= Seriously Tommy wait. Try a real world 7 spd test.. We could off hand a stick shifty thru the important things liek a DQ w a melting cone. up a parking ramp and nasty low departure company lots in a Eagle Talon, Jetta and a Cad Cimarron 5spd

Better than a jeep?

If only you could find one for 55k

Here in Houston Texas, there's a almost new Ford bronco sitting for sale used on almost every lot you go to, I've never seen anything like it? Can you say massive engine failures?

Yes it is. Better than the Wrangler.

Non-sasquatch broncos look weird. I'd rather go with sas even knowing its drawbacks

I don't think so