[Auto/Moto] The 2025 Ford Bronco Sport Sasquatch Wants to Prove You Wrong

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The Ford Bronco Sport is a Ford Bronco, but it's also not. It’s the mini Bronco, styled and named so that the big Bronco’s off-road reputation might help woo casual buyers. But that also makes you wonder: Is the Bronco Sport worthy of its name? The 2025 Ford Bronco Sport Sasquatch is here to prove that it is.The big Bronco is a hardcore off-roader that competes with the Jeep Wrangler. It rides on a modified version of the Ford Ranger’s body-on-frame platform, which makes it more flexible for off-roading. The Bronco Sport, meanwhile, is more about on-road driving. It doesn’t have all the fancy perks of the big Bronco, and it’s based on the unibody Escape crossover, which is more fuel-efficient and car-like.For 2025, the Bronco Sport comes standard with four-wheel drive and an eight-speed automatic transmission. It also has five trims and two engine options: a 1.5-liter three-cylinder engine making 180 horsepower and 200 pound-feet of torque, and a 2.0-liter four-cylinder with 238 horsepower and 277 pound-feet. The Sasquatch off-road package makes its way from the big Bronco to the smaller Bronco Sport. It’s an optional add-on on the top-tier Outer Banks and Badlands trims for 2025, and it has features like a twin-clutch rear-drive unit, a locking rear differential, steel underbody protection, Bilstein rear shocks, and 29-inch all-terrain tires.Those upgrades give the Bronco Sport Sasquatch 8.3 inches of suspension travel up front and 9.0 inches in the rear, and the ability to ford 23.6 inches of water. That’s pretty good compared to the big Bronco’s maximum wading depth of 33.5 inches. Ford hasn’t said how much the Sasquatch package will cost on the Bronco Sport, or how much the 2025 Bronco Sport will be. But in 2024, the base price for the Bronco Sport Outer Banks is $35,500, the Bronco Sport Badlands is $40,000, and on the big Bronco Badlands, the Sasquatch package costs a minimum of $5,000. The 2025 Bronco Sport Sasquatch won’t be available until early next year, but Ford brought us out for a 15-minute drive on its new off-road course in Maryville, Tennessee. We were in pre-production cars on a course of Ford’s choosing—some dirt, mud, divots, and 20-degree tilts—but the Sasquatch still felt plenty capable.

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