Ford’s swamp monster has arrived in the form of the Bronco Everglades edition. We drove it through the wet, muddy, rocky, and buggy trails of Northern Michigan to see if it is as capable as it looks.
They say the bugs are as big as birds in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, otherwise known as the UP. Flies are as mean as piranhas and as hungry, too, circling human prey to bite. Mosquitoes swarm in blinding clouds.
It’s swampy on Drummond Island, a rock skip from Canada and a hop along the Michigan archipelago straddling the line between the United States and our neighbors to the north.
However, the bugs are no match for my beefy grille, and the windows are rolled all the way up in the Bronco Everglades I’m driving. This is no place for rolling back the soft top or pulling off the modular panels above, unless you want to be overrun by the insect population, trust me.
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Draped in Desert Sand, an exclusive color to this iteration of the new Bronco, the Everglades version powers through the muddy terrain without blinking. If the characters in Jurassic Park would have had a Bronco Everglades, I’d bet they could have escaped the T. Rex by splashing through the giant puddles left in its footprints.
It’s clear that Ford’s popular 4×4 vehicle is an off-road star, and the Everglades edition smashes through the forest more capably than all its siblings, sans the Raptor edition in most ways. This is especially true on terrain that matches its namesake: marshy, muddy wetlands.
2022 Bronco Everglades Review
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Mudding Accessories Included
Ford has done an admirable job creating a Bronco lineup that meets just about every customer’s needs, including eight trim levels and providing 200 accessories straight from the factory. The options are pretty much unlimited, but some customers don’t want to dig through a set of options, they just want something straight from the factory.
In the simplest terms, the Everglades model is a four-door Black Diamond that has received the Sasquatch treatment and gained a winch and a reversible snorkel.
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Warn Zeon Winch Included
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Ford First: Snorkel
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Bronco Everglades Driving Impressions Off-Road
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2022 Bronco Everglades Pricing & Specs
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2022 Ford Bronco Everglades Specs
- Engine: 2.3L EcoBoost generating 300 horsepower and 325 lb.-ft. (on premium fuel)
- Transmission: 10-speed SelectShift automatic
- Maximum crawl ratio: 67.8:1
- Approach / Breakover / Departure angles: 37.8 degrees / 26.3 degrees / 37.1 degrees
- Minimum running ground clearance: 11.7 in.
- Maximum water fording: 36.4 in.
- Terrain Management System with G.O.A.T. Modes: Standard — with 7 modes, including Normal, Slippery, Tow/Haul, Sport, Off-Road, Rock Crawl, and Baja modes
- Trail control, turn assist, and hill-start assist: Standard
- Tires: Goodyear Territory 35-in. 315/70R17 M/T