Vehicle
Ford Bronco
The body-on-frame off-roader, revived in 2021 on the Ranger's T6 platform after a twenty-five-year gap — so Ranger information covers most of the chassis and powertrain. Worth separating carefully from the Bronco Sport, which is a unibody crossover on the Escape's platform and shares nothing with it but a name. Off-road duty puts wiring, sensor damage and water ingress at the front of the diagnosis rather than the back.
Generations
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Third and fourth generation 1980–1991
The full-size truck-based Bronco on the F-Series chassis — a different vehicle in kind from the 2021 car that revived the name.
- AOD 4-speed automatic
- Borg-Warner T18 / T19 4-speed manual
- C6 3-speed automatic
- NP435 4-speed manual
- Tremec RTS / T170FT (TOD) 4-speed manual
- Body styles
- SUV
- Platform
- Ford F-Series
- Engines
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- 4.9 straight-six — petrol
- 5.0 V8 — WINDSOR · petrol · Windsor
- 5.8 V8 — WINDSOR · petrol · Windsor
- 2.8 — petrol · 6-cylinder, US market 1984-1985 — the compact Bronco II, which has no page here
- 2.9 — petrol · 6-cylinder, US market 1986-1990 — the compact Bronco II, which has no page here
- Transmissions
- 4-speed Borg-Warner T-18 manual · 4-speed New Process NP435 manual · 4-speed Tremec RTS OverDrive · 3-speed C6 automatic · 5-speed M5OD-R2 manual · 4-speed AOD automatic · 4-speed E4OD automatic
- Drivetrain
- Part-time four-wheel drive with low range
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Fifth generation 1992–1996
The last of the original run — a full-size body-on-frame truck with pushrod V8s and no electronics worth speaking of.
- Body styles
- SUV
- Platform
- Ford F-Series
- Engines
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- 5.0 V8 — WINDSOR · petrol
- 5.8 V8 — WINDSOR · petrol
- Transmissions
- 4-speed AOD-E automatic · 4-speed E4OD automatic · 5-speed M5OD-R2 manual
- Drivetrain
- Part-time four-wheel drive with low range
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Sixth generation 2021–present
Revived on the Ranger's T6 platform — Ranger information covers the chassis, and the Bronco Sport is a different vehicle entirely.
- Body styles
- SUV
- Platform
- Ford T6
- Engines
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- 2.3 EcoBoost — petrol · 224 kW (300 hp) · 441 Nm (325 lb-ft)
- 2.7 EcoBoost V6 — NANO · petrol · 246 kW (330 hp) · 563 Nm (415 lb-ft)
- 3.0 EcoBoost V6 — NANO · petrol · 312 kW (418 hp) · 597 Nm (440 lb-ft) · Bronco Raptor
- 1.5 turbo — petrol · 3-cylinder, US market 2021-2026
- 2.0 turbo — petrol · 4-cylinder, US market 2021-2026
- Transmissions
- 7-speed Getrag MTI550 manual · 10-speed Ford 10R60 automatic
- Drivetrain
- Part-time four-wheel drive with low range
Service information
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