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Ford Gives Us the Manual Bronco Sasquatch We Deserve

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2021 Ford Bronco Sasquatch package available for seven-speed manual
You asked, Ford delivers, and now the Sasquatch gets a manual
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One of the questions folks have asked most about the 2021 Ford Bronco since its reveal is whether they can pair the Sasquatch package with the standard seven-speed manual. Up until Monday, the answer to that question was no. And now, with its thumb firmly on the pulse of what the people demand, Ford is reversing course.


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“The Bronco community spoke and we heard them,” said Mark Grueber, Ford Bronco consumer marketing manager. “Our team moved quickly to add Sasquatch with a manual transmission — another example of our focus on giving customers the best possible off-road vehicles and accessories that we can.”

To drive home the idea of how much they got asked this question, Ford produced a short little video that includes real tweets from real peeps asking for a Bronco Sasquatch with the class-exclusive seven-speed manual. You even get a glimpse of a conspicuously hairy hand shifting the Bronco in to gear. WHO COULD THAT BE?

The hand aspect of the video alone raises a few questions. First, who taught Bigfoot how to drive stick? Is it an innate ability that comes with being a supernatural creature? Also, where is Bigfoot getting the scratch for a new Ford Bronco? Sponsorship deals? Was he part of Ford’s test group? Did he get a pre-production model to make his trips through the American backwoods easier?

Bronco Sasquatch package gets more ridiculous

2021 Ford Bronco two-door interior | 2021 Ford Bronco Sasquatch package available for seven-speed manual
Ain’t it just a thing of beauty?
Photo: Ford

Ford offers its Sasquatch package on every trim of the new Bronco, including making it standard on the Bronco Wildtrak (and the super-sold-out First Edition). The package makes the two- and four-door Bronco, already off-road-capable out of the gate, even sturdier.

The Sasquatch package includes 35-inch Goodyear mud-terrain tires, 17-inch black-painted beadlock-capable wheels, Bilstein shock absorbers, electronic-locking front and rear Dana axles, and a 4.7:1 final drive ratio.

As Ford Icons Global Director Dave Pericak notes, equipping the Bronco Sasquatch package with the manual and advanced 4×4 system also means a maximum crawl ratio of 94.75:1. In a word? Yikes. Wowzers also works.

Ford says that the Sasquatch package will be available for Bronco models with the seven-speed manual starting late next year. The first wave of Broncos will start hitting by next spring. Ford is also promising that the long-awaited Bronco build and price site will go live in October ahead of ordering kicking off in December.

And, yeah, don’t worry, Ford’s also already teasing a Bronco Raptor/Warthog, too.


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