Ford Reveals 2025 Bronco Sport – Sasquatch Off-Road Option

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Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) said today that the 2025 Ford Bronco Sport will have an off-road option with so-called Sasquatch Capability, as well as new technology both as standard equipment and available as options. All 2025 Bronco Sport models come standard with what’s claimed as the largest center display in the class, a 13.2-inch touchscreen with the SYNC^(R) 4 system, Bronco Raptor-inspired 12.3-inch digital instrument display and Co-Pilot 360 Assist+. (read AutoInformed on: Shareholder Warning – Ford Delays Next Gen Electric Truck) 

“Bronco Sport customers love the outdoors and go off-roading 3.5 times as often as the owners of competitive vehicles, and camping twice as often,” claimed Matt Simpson, Ford Enthusiast Vehicles general manager. “They want to know they can overcome obstacles that come their way, which drove our designers and engineers to push Bronco Sport to a new level of capability and performance to let our customers do more and have more fun off-road.”

As with the larger Bronco model Sasquatch, Sasquatch for Bronco Sport also includes bigger tires –  29-inch 235/65/R17 Goodyear Territory All Terrain tires. Developed specifically for Bronco Sport Sasquatch, the tire was adapted from the Bronco with an open-tread design and reinforced sidewalls to provide traction across a variety of surfaces.

The Bronco Sport Badlands and Badlands Sasquatch have a new Rally G.O.A.T. (Goes Over Any Type of Terrain) Mode. Rally Mode at higher speeds in sand holds gears longer for increased power on demand, sharpening the throttle response with increased feedback through the steering. Rally Mode is standard on Bronco Sport Badlands and Badlands Sasquatch. Other Bronco Sport models comes standard with a new Off-Road G.O.A.T. Mode.

In addition to G.O.A.T Modes, Bronco Sport adds class-exclusive* off-road technologies that have been proven out in Bronco and the Raptor family of high-performance off-road vehicles. Trail One-Pedal Drive joins Trail Control and provides more precise and confident behavior while rock crawling. When Trail One-Pedal is engaged, the driver only has to use the accelerator pedal to control the speed of the vehicle. Easing off the accelerator engages the brakes to automatically slow the vehicle and releasing the accelerator completely will bring Bronco Sport to a controlled stop.

The 2025 Bronco Sport SUV has an optional 360-Degree Camera with a claimed class-exclusive Trail View, which activates automatically in Off-Road and Rally G.O.A.T. Modes, functions at high speeds, and shows width-accurate tire overlays. Bronco® Sport Badlands® model andt he Sasquatch Badlands package offer an optional 360-Degree Camera with  a so-called Split View that shows the front tires using the cameras under the side-view mirrors.

Included with Sasquatch are Bilstein rear shocks with position-sensitive damping and piggyback reservoirs replace Bronco Sport Badlands’ standard monotube off-road dampers. The Bilstein shocks provide a wider range of compression and rebound damping capabilities, to absorb extreme events at higher speeds.

New front and rear springs increase ride height four-tenths of an inch over the current Bronco Sport Badlands, while Bronco Sport Badlands Sasquatch has up to up to 8.3 inches of front suspension travel and 8.7 inches of rear suspension travel. That’s six-tenths of an inch of additional suspension travel compared to the Bronco Sport Badlands.

Bronco Sport Sasquatch matches its upgraded suspension equipment and off-road technology with a standard front brush guard, steel skid plates, and modular, accessory-ready front and rear bumpers with steel bash plates as the first point of contact. Four recovery points – two cast accessory-ready tow hooks in front and a pair of cast D-rings on the rear bumper – are designed to meet Ford’s off-road recovery requirements.

“While other small SUVs simply look rugged, Bronco Sport is engineered rugged from the inside out and top to bottom,” said Eddie Khan, Bronco Sport Vehicle Engineering manager. “Bronco Sport has earned the right to call itself Built Wild with Sasquatch.”