MARYVILLE, Tenn – Adding a Sasquatch package to the 2025 Ford Bronco Sport sounds a touch silly at first blush. If you truly want off-road capability, just go buy the regular Bronco, right? Well, yes, this is still the answer I’d give you, but the Bronco Sport is undeniably more tantalizing this year for the light off-roading crowd who might not want to deal with the compromises of a body-on-frame, single-minded, off-road SUV.
You can get the full skinny on what Ford’s changed for 2025 here, but alongside telling us about what’s new, Ford let us drive the Sasquatch in prototype form. It was only for about 20 minutes on the company’s Tennessee Off-Roadeo property, but it was enough to discover that the Sasquatch is going to surprise you with the type of terrain it can clamber over.
The Sasquatch builds upon the Badlands, one of two trim levels it can be added to, but we’ll get to the other in a minute. The list of added features is lengthy. Ford tacks on Bilstein rear shocks with position-sensitive damping and piggyback reservoirs that better absorb more extreme, high-speed events. New front and rear springs increase ground clearance by 0.6 inches over the Badlands to a very Subaru-like 8.7 inches, and extends suspension travel by the same amount. Trim-specific 29-inch Goodyear Territory all-terrain tires come standard and were developed specifically for this model with much more aggressive tread – they sure do look the part. Protection is ramped up significantly with a front brush guard, front and rear bumpers with steel bash plates, even more underbody skid plates, and additional, stronger recovery points. Said bumpers are now modular, too, with the ability to fit a range of accessories to them like light bars, dune flags and more.
All of the above comes in addition to the Badlands’ extra equipment, which means most of that (with one big exception) is also added to the other Sasquatchable Bronco Sport: the Outer Banks. That includes the twin-clutch, torque-vectoring rear drive unit and locking rear differential that had previously been exclusive to the Badlands. It does not include the 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine upgrade, however. The Outer Banks continues to have the 1.5-liter turbo three-cylinder, but regardless of powertrain (both of which receive a slight downgrade in total output due to emissions requirements), Ford says the rear differential is upgraded for 2025 with greater thermal capacity….
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