Bronco Sport Gets Chunky Sasquatch Off-Road Package for 2025

Ford is bestowing upon its baby Bronco-the Bronco Sport-a new Sasquatch package that will make the little ute even more capable where the blacktop ends. For 2025, the new pack will be available as additional equipment on the Outer Banks and Badlands versions.

If the package sounds familiar, you're not crazy. The larger Bronco famously offered a Sasquatch package which netted full-size Bronco owners locking front and rear differentials, massive 35-inch tires, 17-inch beadlock-capable wheels, and higher-clearance fender flares to up the off-roader's already impressive off-road chops. On the larger Bronco, however, that package could be fitted to any trim level, whereas here on the Bronco Sport, it's available exclusively for the two most expensive trims.

So, what does a Sasquatch package get you on the Bronco Sport? Well, that depends on which trim you start with. On the Outer Banks version, you'll gain a twin-clutch rear-drive unit that can close both clutches to simulate a locked rear diff. It's the first time Ford has offered this hardware on a Bronco Sport equipped with the smaller, 1.5-liter three-cylinder engine. The Badlands, meanwhile, has offered that equipment since the outset and retains it for the Sasquatch package.

As for the top-trim Badlands, Sasquatch-package-equipped models get new Bilstein rear shocks that feature a piggyback reservoir. The new shocks will "provide a wider range of compression and rebound damping capabilities, to absorb extreme events at higher speeds," says Ford.

Thanks to new front and rear springs, the Sasquatch-equipped Bronco Sport Badlands will offer 8.3 inches and 8.7 inches of suspension travel front and rear. Both Sasquatch models will get new underbody armor, including a front brush guard, steel skid plates, and modular, accessory-ready front and rear bumpers with steel bash plates. Along with the bash plates, the front and rear bumpers will each feature two recovery points-hooks up front and D-rings in the rear.

In typical Sasquatch fashion, you'll also get upsized tires. Both versions will boast 29-inch Goodyear Territory All Terrain tires measuring 235/65/R17. These rollers were specifically developed for the Bronco Sport Sasquatch, says Ford.

In addition to the new shoes, there's a new setting for the G.O.A.T. Mode controller: Rally. The new feature holds gears for longer, sharpening the throttle responses, and increasing feedback from the steering, says Ford. (Only Sasquatch-equipped Bronco Sports will get the Rally mode, but every 2025 Bronco Sport will now come standard with a new off-road G.O.A.T. mode.)

Along with the new drive mode, a few other tech tricks aim to make off-roading easier for these little scramblers. Trail One-Pedal Drive is new and allows the driver to navigate obstacles using only the throttle pedal, leaving brake control to the car's computers. A 360-degree trail cam will display your surroundings on the center screen and overlay width-accurate tire overlays so you can see exactly where your wheels are headed.

"Bronco Sport customers love the outdoors and go off-roading 3.5 times as often as the owners of competitive vehicles, and camping twice as often," said Matt Simpson, general manager of Ford's enthusiast vehicles. (That sound you hear is Subaru owners roaring in objection.) Adding a Sasquatch package to the Bronco Sport-one that looks like it will offer serious benefits off-piste-should enable more of that fun that these owners allegedly chase so earnestly.

Ford says the 2025 Bronco Sport will arrive in dealers in November, and that Sasquatch-equipped versions will be available in Q1 of next year. Pricing will be announced at a later date.