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2025 Ford Bronco Stroppe Edition

The sole two-door V-6 in the Bronco lineup aims to reacquaint the off-road world with the Bill Stroppe Baja glory days.

It is a safe bet that most owners of the 2025 Ford Bronco Stroppe Special Edition will have no idea who Bill Stroppe was. That's not any fault of Stroppe's, who was integral to Ford's desert-racing efforts as a builder in the 1960s and '70s, but the man was born in 1919 and his heyday was about, oh, 20,000 days ago. But that's fine. Even when a name is attached to a big personality and widespread fame—see Shelby, Carroll—at some point the original human connection transmogrifies into a brand. We all know what it means when a Mustang wears a Shelby badge, so what can we expect from a Stroppe Bronco?

Well, a flashy paint job, for one. The Stroppe pays homage to its Baja-racing ancestors with a four-color livery: Code Orange (a.k.a. Raptor orange) from the bottom of the truck up to just above the door handles, then a layer of Oxford White below an Atlas Blue hardtop. The hood is matte black to cut glare from the sun on the Warp Zone section of the Mint 400 and also tame the overhead lights of the Taco Bell drive-through. The tailgate is matte black, and the grille is yet a different shade of white—Frozen White. You'll know a Stroppe Edition when you see it, and not just because badges on the fenders read "Stroppe Edition" alongside an icon of a cactus.

As for Stroppe-specific hardware, that's a pretty thin list. The primary distinguishing characteristic of a Stroppe is that this is now the only V-6 two-door Bronco you can buy, while last year you could get a Badlands, Wildtrak, Black Diamond, or Heritage Edition in that configuration. So the Stroppe is special in that respect, but the Bronco's 330-hp 2.7-liter V-6 is not exactly a towering upgrade over the base 300-hp 2.3-liter four-cylinder. When we tested a 2021 two-door V-6 First Edition with the 10-speed automatic, it hit 60 mph in 6.3 seconds, while a four-cylinder manual 2021 Black Diamond two-door required 7.0 seconds to reach 60. That delta shrinks even more if you install the $850 Ford Performance 330-hp tune, which enables the four-cylinder to match the V-6's horsepower and knocked 0.4 second off our long-term Bronco's 60-mph time. It's also worth mentioning that the four-cylinder is available with a seven-speed manual transmission while the V-6—and hence, the Stroppe—is automatic-only.

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