2025 Ford Bronco Rewinds With Fantastic Retro Free Wheeling Package
In a sea of same-same monotone SUVs, this Bronco couldn’t be more different.
On the heels of the 1960s-themed Ford Bronco Heritage Edition, Ford has set the time machine for the disco era to cook up the Free Wheeling appearance package for the 2025 Ford Bronco. This tricolor burst of sunset hues will look familiar, because it’s basically the same stripe job applied to its little Bronco Sport sibling earlier. The larger, slab-sized big Bronco is an appropriate billboard for the model’s retro appeal, however.
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The Free Wheeling package is available on Big Bend trims with or without the Sasquatch off-road package. And, like its vintage ancestors, it is truly a dress-up job. There’s no additional hardware, tuning, that sort of thing … just vibes. Not that the Bronco itself needs many additional substantive upgrades; the underlying hardware is very capable, especially in Sasquatch guise.
No, instead, this is a loud, look-at-me statement. And that’s ok. The fat, bold stripes of red, orange, and yellow are ripped right off of the Fiestaware palette. Inside, there are equally bold splashes of the same color on the upper part of the seat inserts, as well as red and yellow seat accent stitching and a bold red “oh sh*t” handle accent. More red accents are found on the very retro 17-inch wheels on the Sasquatch version, which Ford’s photos show here. The non-‘Squatch Free Wheeling Broncos get gloss black steelies, which is also cool. Likewise with the silver accents and the Iconic Silver grille, which is tatesful and nicely contrasts the black paint on this example.
Ford says the Free Wheeling option will be available in January 2025. Pricing hasn’t been revealed yet. The Bronco Sport Free Wheeling, for comparison, is the same price as the Heritage trim; perhaps the same will be true for the big Bronco.
Like a lot of the other staffers here, Alex Kierstein took the hard way to get to car writing. Although he always loved cars, he wasn’t sure a career in automotive media could possibly pan out. So, after an undergraduate degree in English at the University of Washington, he headed to law school. To be clear, it sucked. After a lot of false starts, and with little else to lose, he got a job at Turn 10 Studios supporting the Forza 4 and Forza Horizon 1 launches. The friendships made there led to a job at a major automotive publication in Michigan, and after a few years to MotorTrend. He lives in the Seattle area with a small but scruffy fleet of great vehicles, including a V-8 4Runner and a C5 Corvette, and he also dabbles in scruffy vintage watches and film cameras.
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