OVERKILL
$100 Site Donor 2021
Was recently in NC for a little over a week and we had a bright blue Ford Bronco Sport as our rental. Looked like this (my apologies for not taking pictures):
Impressions from myself and the others that drove it? Not great.
- Storage room in the back is decent, though the glass/door opening buttons (which trigger manual operation of both, neither are electric) are not well labelled and people opened the wrong one a few times.
- Interior is a sea of cheap plastic. The "tablet" bolted to the dash looks gaudy and is trimmed in a bezel that looks like it's meant to be on a kid's toy from Walmart for $49.99.
- Button bar, which you are motivated to stab the S/S disable button on after the first time it engages, is in fact a one-piece bar, not buttons, so the entire thing deflects oddly when you press on it, which does not work to improve upon the impression of cheapness.
- Wireless car charger worked well, and is placed in a decent location
- Gauge cluster is better than the tablet, gauges are clear and reasonably well laid-out
- Seats are acceptable. Not much in the way of bolstering, but the materials seem durable. They are not great, but they don't make your bum numb.
- Sound deadening is limited. This wouldn't be a big issue at this price point except that the engine sounds like a diesel, particularly when cold, so the noise coming through isn't the pleasant song of a spritely power plant, but a raucous barrage of noise, while motivation provided matches the theme; is far from athletic.
- Ride and handling are about what you'd expect. Not luxurious, but not awful. Steering behaviour is good, body roll is minimal, but, due to the engine, that's where any semblance of "sporty" ends, which makes the "Drive Modes" knob mostly about suspension and tip-in, as even in "Sport" the engine makes it clear that this really isn't what you are getting.
Impressions from myself and the others that drove it? Not great.
- Storage room in the back is decent, though the glass/door opening buttons (which trigger manual operation of both, neither are electric) are not well labelled and people opened the wrong one a few times.
- Interior is a sea of cheap plastic. The "tablet" bolted to the dash looks gaudy and is trimmed in a bezel that looks like it's meant to be on a kid's toy from Walmart for $49.99.
- Button bar, which you are motivated to stab the S/S disable button on after the first time it engages, is in fact a one-piece bar, not buttons, so the entire thing deflects oddly when you press on it, which does not work to improve upon the impression of cheapness.
- Wireless car charger worked well, and is placed in a decent location
- Gauge cluster is better than the tablet, gauges are clear and reasonably well laid-out
- Seats are acceptable. Not much in the way of bolstering, but the materials seem durable. They are not great, but they don't make your bum numb.
- Sound deadening is limited. This wouldn't be a big issue at this price point except that the engine sounds like a diesel, particularly when cold, so the noise coming through isn't the pleasant song of a spritely power plant, but a raucous barrage of noise, while motivation provided matches the theme; is far from athletic.
- Ride and handling are about what you'd expect. Not luxurious, but not awful. Steering behaviour is good, body roll is minimal, but, due to the engine, that's where any semblance of "sporty" ends, which makes the "Drive Modes" knob mostly about suspension and tip-in, as even in "Sport" the engine makes it clear that this really isn't what you are getting.
