Ford's 2022 Bronco Everglades
While the Ford Bronco and Jeep Wrangler battle for off-road supremacy, the third member of the Detroit 3 has no plans to join the fight. For now, anyway.
"I'm not gonna do a Bronco," General Motors President Mark Reuss told The Drive at the 24 Hours of Daytona race recently.
But Reuss later clarified that he was only ruling out a gasoline-powered, two-row, body-on-frame SUV. Asked if GM was opposed to building an electric Bronco challenger one day, he replied, "I didn't say that."
Reuss: Not joining battle
GM has an SUV version of the GMC Hummer EV coming to market this year, though that's considerably larger and pricier than the Bronco and Wrangler.
Reuss said any off-road combustion SUV that GM brought out would be "late to the party." It also would hurt the company's efforts to improve its corporate average fuel economy numbers, he added.
At least one forecaster believes Ford is working on an electric Bronco to be released toward the end of the decade. In the meantime, it's expected to roll out a hybrid version, to compete with Jeep's Wrangler 4xe plug-in hybrid, next year.
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