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Sasquatch packages may be fitted on the Outer Banks or Badlands fashions
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Sasquatches add Bilstein shocks, all-terrain tires, skid plates, and different off-road equipment
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Each 2025 Bronco Sport comes with a 12.3-inch instrument cluster and a 13.2-inch touchscreen
To mythologists, the Sasquatch is a big bi-pedal primate lurking in North American forests. To Ford, the Sasquatch is an off-road package deal meant to trace down or grow to be this legend, by means of dell and dale. This yr, the package deal migrates from the big-footed Bronco into the smaller monitor of the 2025 Bronco Sport.
It’s not a like-for-like improve between the 2 distinctly completely different fashions, but it surely’s an analogous method. Each have 17-inch carbonized alloy wheels, however 29-inch Goodyear Territory All-Terrain tires (235/65/R17) fill the Bronco Sport’s smaller wells. With equally bolstered sidewalls and open treads because the 35-inch Goodyear Territory Mud Terrains on the Bronco, the Bronco Sport Sasquatch mucked by means of muddy ruts deep within the shadowy forest of Tennessee’s Nice Smoky Mountains.
In a short, curated check drive of pre-production Badlands fashions in Ford’s newest and fifth Bronco Off-Roadeo location outdoors of Knoxville, the brand new Bronco Sport Sasquatch proved extra succesful than the 2025 Subaru Forester Wilderness and extra promising than what stays of Jeep’s compact crossover lineup, which is all the way down to the Compass Trailhawk.
2025 Ford Bronco Sport with Sasquatch Package deal
2025 Ford Bronco Sport with Sasquatch Package deal
2025 Ford Bronco Sport with Sasquatch Package deal
Ford slaps 5 metal skid plates beneath the physique of the Bronco Sport Sasquatch, which sits 0.6 inches greater than the Bronco Sport Badlands to eight.8 inches. An adjunct bar arcs from the entrance bash plate, two built-in tow hooks are bolted to the subframe, and the raised rear bumper has restoration D-rings that sit at knee degree. Even with the Sasquatch’s normal tow hitch and the Badlands’ 2,700-pound towing capability, the modular bumpers have an method angle of as much as 31.2 levels (30.0 on Badlands with out the Sasquatch package deal) and a departure angle of 27.9 levels (26.7 normal on Badlands).
With out the good thing about rock rails, Ford had no drawback displaying off these barely improved angles over a pile of rock. The Sasquatch steadied with three wheels down, and lifted its skirt to point out the skid plates overlaying the engine, transmission, and gas tank. The Bronco Sport’s skid plates on show have been a lot heavier than the Toyota RAV4 TRD’s, and so they made the plastic cowl of the Subaru Crosstrek Wilderness look like a joke.
2025 Ford Bronco Sport with Sasquatch Package deal
The Sasquatch scales both the Outer Banks mannequin and its turbocharged 1.5-liter 3-cylinder or the Badlands and its 2.0-liter turbo-4. The turbo-3 nonetheless makes the identical 181 hp and 190 lb-ft of torque, and the 8-speed automated sends energy to all 4 wheels. Ford says enhancements have been made to the tuning of the ability switch unit on all Bronco Sports activities. The turbo-4 nonetheless charges at 245 hp and 275 lb-ft, although premium gas can shake it to 250 hp and 277 lb-ft.
The massive change to the Sasquatch model of the turbo-4 is a bigger cooling fan, from 650 watts to 850 watts, so the Badlands Sasquatch can run more durable, sooner, and longer at velocity, seemingly in Rally mode. For the primary time, the Outer Banks Sasquatch will get the Badlands’ twin-clutch rear-drive unit and locking rear differential to divert torque to both rear wheel.
MacPherson entrance struts stay, whereas Badlands Sasquatch enhancements to the rear suspension embody Bilstein shocks with three-position passive damping that promise to higher take in compression and rebound at greater speeds whereas nonetheless giving it crossover-like experience consolation on the street. We didn’t get to check out this promise.
2025 Ford Bronco Sport with Sasquatch Package deal
2025 Ford Bronco Sport with Sasquatch Package deal
2025 Ford Bronco Sport with Sasquatch Package deal
2025 Ford Bronco Sport with Sasquatch Package deal
The lark by means of the woods within the Badlands Sasquatch lasted about 12 minutes, sufficient to flick by means of the cool show graphics on the newly normal 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster. The Badlands Sasquatch has seven modes to toggle by means of on the console selector, and the console’s now flanked by seize handles. The graphics change for every mode so that you don’t must depend on wanting on the dial for every notch. It provides Rally and Rock Crawl to the Regular, Eco, Sport, Slippery, and Off-Highway modes on different fashions.
With a cool pitch and roll meter and different key off-road graphics centered within the show, a number of the smaller iconography can get misplaced. As an example, a brand new One-Pedal Drive mode that acts as a crawl management helps you to simply press the throttle to scale up or down a steep, slippery incline; let off the throttle and the brake holds the Bronco Sport, even on a tilt, with out the driving force urgent the brake. To comprehend it’s on, there’s slightly inexperienced icon within the backside proper of the show.
2025 Ford Bronco Sport with Sasquatch Package deal
2025 Ford Bronco Sport with Sasquatch Package deal
2025 Ford Bronco Sport with Sasquatch Package deal
2025 Ford Bronco Sport with Sasquatch Package deal
The locking rear differential mild is equally sized, illuminated in orange on the mid-left a part of the show, reverse the soundness management icon on the fitting facet. It’s good to know what to search for, but it surely retains it neat, and homeowners ought to get used to understanding the place to look to see what’s lively.
In Off-Highway or Rally modes, an off-road digicam system prompts on the 13.2-inch touchscreen that’s now normal all through the lineup. New angles allow you to see beneath the entrance axle, and even Bronco Sports activities with out the Sasquatch package deal however with a surround-view digicam system allow you to see down by the entrance wheels.
The hood nonetheless has twin peaks however lacks the nook sights of the bigger Bronco. The ridges are sufficient to see the place the hood ends, then something left to probability may be verified by the digicam system. Twin entrance fender tie-downs additionally come out of every fender close to the entrance doorways. Every one can strap down 150 kilos on the roof and certain add extra stability for longer roof gadgets similar to paddle boards and canoes. There are 4 auxiliary switches on the within roof, too, to activate any of the various equipment provided by Ford, from driving lights to compressors.
If deep off-roading on the hunt for the Sasquatch isn’t your jam, a Black Diamond package deal on Large Bend fashions provides the look of the Sasquatch however with out the Bilstiens or the rear locker.
The 2025 Bronco Sport goes on sale late in 2024 for $31,590 with a $1,595 vacation spot, with Sasquatch packaged fashions to observe early in 2025. The Outer Banks Sasquatch prices $3,535 additional, but it surely should be bundled with the Tech package deal, bringing it to $5,230 additional. That provides as much as $41,810 for the Outer Bands Sasquatch. The Badlands Sasquatch provides $2,990 to high the vary at $44,580. Order banks open at present. The Sasquatch is on the market.
Ford paid for Motor Authority’s 3-hour sojourn into Sasquatch nation.
