Ford Bronco vs Land Rover Defender: US and UK 4x4s face-off
was a late-1940s creation in the mould of the Jeep: light, cheap to make and unstoppable off road. It was developed and enhanced and grew in size and versatility over the decades but, like the Bronco, didn’t keep pace with the world around it. By the time production finished at the beginning of 2016, it was too labour-intensive to build, too thirsty to run and too dangerous to crash. And as with the Bronco, it was reborn for the 2020s as a very different machine.
The mode system is called Terrain Response in the Land Rover, GOAT in the Ford. Manual Broncos get a trick crawler ratio that this 10-speed automatic does without, while the Defender is an eight-speed auto.Which is best off road? This, alas, I can’t tell you with absolute certainty. Partly because this Bronco is already sold, so we couldn’t take it that far into the rough, but also because what works in one bit of rough might not translate to another and because the cars’ tyres aren’t the same.
The soft top doesn’t help the Bronco’s isolation, it must be said. But on a spring day in a Californian desert, doors off too, I probably wouldn’t mind that. The Bronco can take you outside in a way that the hard roof-only Defender can’t. In February rain in Wiltshire, I will take every bit of isolation the Defender has to offer. And there’s a lot of it.This Defender is a diesel to the Bronco’s petrol yet is easily its match in terms of engine quietness.
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