Despite reports that the 2016 Ford Bronco is as real as can be and that it is about to come out soon enough, the absence of confirming information from the American car manufacturing company in the past couple of months have lend credence once again to the fact that the off-road vehicle was the biggest April Fool’s Day prank since last year until now.
Inside Car News reports that now Bronco fans are beginning to realize that the 2016 edition of the Ford off-roader was merely a ruse, they were certainly not pleased and gave their pieces of mind to the online news website that posted the story on April 1, 2014.
They have likewise gave the associate editor of the same site choice words for running the story and making them believe that it was true.
Despite these latest report that the 2016 Ford Bronco is a merely a hoax or a figment of a creative imagination, the rumors of its upcoming roll out will continue to persist until Ford officially makes an announcement to either confirm or deny its existence.
If indeed it was a joke or a hoax, Ford Motor Company would certainly not allow car enthusiasts believe and follow a pipe dream because it would be its reputation and credibility that would be at stake more than any other entity. If the 2016 Ford Bronco was a hoax, and Ford simply allowed the fake reports to perpetrate without the company doing anything about it, then the carmaker would really look bad in the eyes of the public.
A hoax could stain its reputation terribly that the backlash would be tremendous. So, from the business perspective, it would be very uncanny and illogical for Ford to keep mum about it.
A smaller crossover
Looking from the other side of the fence, from the side of Ford that is, it could also be that the 2016 Ford Bronco that many were harping about is not the one based on the F-150 pickup truck, whose images came at the height of the supposedly hoax news about the vehicle.
Early last month, it was reported that the 2016 Ford Bronco may not be the SUV-type of vehicle that the newsmakers were trumpeting about. Instead, it could be a smaller crossover vehicle more to the resemblance of the Ford Escape or the Ford Edge.
However, of late, there is now a report that the 2015 edition of the Ford Troller T4 is in fact the modern Ford Bronco that a number of people were talking about, according to the website called Bronco Legend.
The Ford Troller T4 has the appearance of its closest competitors including the Cherokee Jeep, the Jeep Wrangler, the Toyota FJ Cruiser, and the Land Rover.
This is an interesting new twist on the speculations about the 2016 Ford Bronco but this report already came out last year too, when rumors about the 2016 Bronco spread and cited that it would look like an all-terrain jeep similar to the Wrangler.
In the absence of an official announcement from Ford regarding the 2016 Ford Bronco, one thing may be clear at this point, the vehicle appears to be real and forthcoming but until the American carmaker makes an official statement and showed to the whole world what the vehicle really looks like, everything remains speculation at the moment.