Your 2025 Ford Bronco Sport Buyer’s Guide

A light blue 2025 Ford Bronco Sport Outer Banks Sasquatch driving on a forest trail.

When you’re looking for your next vehicle, you tend to have an idea of what style suits you. If you’d love to have a car with versatility, style, and high-end tech, you should probably be keeping an eye out for a 2025 Ford Bronco Sport for sale. This car is one of the most off-road friendly, aesthetically pleasing, rugged rides out there. It’s perfect for someone interested in exploring the great outdoors while also keeping safety and style in mind. If you want your car to fit the journey you’re on, there are few cars made ready for any ride like the Ford Bronco Sport is.

If you want to know how this impressive subcompact SUV can improve your daily drive and your weekend excursions, we’re happy to show you what the 2025 Bronco Sport has to offer. We love the opportunity to highlight this innovative vehicle and its incredible versatility so our customers can get excited to go for a test drive.

Rough and Ready

One of the Ford Bronco Sport’s main selling points is its off-road capability. With every 2025 Ford Bronco Sport, you’ll find it to be the most off-road capable option in the subcompact SUV class. Like its bigger sibling, the Bronco, the Ford Bronco Sport features the iconic GOAT (Goes Over Any Terrain) modes. With GOAT modes, this car offers five standard drive modes (Normal, ECO, Sport, Slippery, and Off-Road) that help you adapt to any terrain—whether that means dirt trails or rocky roads.

Furthermore, the Ford Bronco Sport prepares you for any pitfalls you might run into on your adventures. With up to 8.8 feet of ground clearance, Bilstein rear shocks, a locking rear differential, up to 24 inches of water-fording capabilities, and the available steel skid plates and recovery hooks, you have much better odds of getting yourself out of any sticky situation. No matter what you encounter out in the wild, off-roading has never been more secure in this compact SUV.

As we all know, the greatest adventures require equipment, too. Luckily, you don’t have to worry about whether the Ford Bronco Sport can handle your bikes or kayaks. Between the roof rails and optional Safari-style roof, this truck makes room for all your favorite outdoor hobbies. Moreover, if you need to tow a little trailer for your ATV, the 2025 Ford Bronco Sport can tow up to 2,700 lbs—just enough for a fun weekend adventure.

For the base engine, the Ford Bronco offers a 1.5L EcoBoost turbocharged I-3 that gets a solid 25 MPG in the city and 30 MPG on the highway. This engine also offers up to 180 hp and 190 lb-ft of torque. The second engine is the 2.0L EcoBoost turbocharged I-4, which is available on the Badlands. This engine offers 21 MPG in the city and up to 27 MPG on the highway. The enhanced power that this engine offers is obvious with its 250 hp and 277 lb-ft of torque. It’s not at the top of its class, but it is still very reasonable to fit your busy lifestyle. Considering the average pickup gets 15-20 MPG, the Bronco Sport is a huge step up as far as off-road-friendly vehicles go.

The Ford family is also dedicated to loving the Ford Bronco Sport just as much as you do. If you want a place to test your off-roading and connect with fellow Bronco enthusiasts, Ford provides Off-Roadeo experiences. Here, you can improve your all-terrain skills or play with the full range of your Bronco’s capabilities. This is included with the purchase of a qualifying Bronco Sport trim.

A person putting gloves into the under seat storage of a 2025 Ford Bronco Sport Badlands.

The Rugged Aesthetic

If you plan on driving one vehicle for years, you want it to mirror your personality. Few cars reflect the outdoorsy soul better than the Bronco. Following in its bigger sibling’s footsteps with boxy, rugged designs, every 2025 Ford Bronco Sport has the exact aesthetic to match your active lifestyle. This tough Ford model comes with five different trims, and each has its own flair:

  • Big Bend ($29,995[a]): The base model which comes in eight different colors. This model includes the five standard GOAT (Goes Over Any Type of Terrain) Modes: Normal, Eco, Sport, Slippery, and Off-Road. It sports the classic designs and a host of active safety and driver-assist features from Ford’s Co-Pilot360 Assist+ package.
  • Free Wheeling ($33,135[a]): Designed for the more retro driver, this trim includes the red, orange, and yellow graphics package, Race-Red painted accent wheels, and sunset weave cloth seats. This model also features the five standard GOAT modes and the Ford Co-Pilot360 Assist+ package.
  • Heritage ($33,39[a]): This style throwback to older Bronco models includes an Oxford-White hood and side decals, Oxford White-painted aluminum wheels, and plaid cloth seats. Apart from these style features, this trim is identical to the Big Bend model as far as all other standard features go.
  • Outer Banks ($35,195[a]): This trim is the mid-to-premium design. It includes a shadow-black roof and a black-painted grille with white lettering. It also adds premium-trimmed heated front seats and a heated steering wheel. Identical to the Big Bend model as far as all other standard features go.
  • Badlands ($40,115[a]): The highest-level model of the Ford Bronco Sport includes a steel-plated front bumper and underbody protection, and Matte-Black painted aluminum wheels. It gives you additional features such as Advanced 4×4 as well as two more GOAT modes: Rock Crawl and Rally. These both allow you further adjustable shift points, precise steering, and optimal throttle control for improved responsiveness.

Depending on your personal style, though, you can often mix and match certain features (Note: sometimes this costs an additional price). For example, Ford offers eight different wheel styles, so you can find the exact one to match your tastes. Or, you can toughen up your look with a front brush guard, steel-plated bumpers, and bash plates. You can also add graphics to your car, be it the Sasquatch or mountain elevation designs. What a fun way to add your unique style of outdoorsiness to your vehicle! If you buy a used Ford Bronco Sport, though, you can also spend a bit of extra cash to trade out parts like wheels to your heart’s content.

The steering wheel and infotainment screen in a 2025 Ford Bronco Sport.

Tech for Your Best Adventure

Even when thriving in the great outdoors, you need your vehicle to have the kind of tech that keeps you comfortable and safe. When looking at a 2025 Ford Bronco Sport, you’ll find this subcompact off-road-ready SUV has all the amenities you could ever need. Because of that, your Bronco could easily become a sort of home away from home.

Some of the best assistance and safety features include the auto high beams for those night drives and a BLIS(Blind Spot Information System) that can alert you to hard-to-see vehicles and objects. This system also includes a Cross-Traffic Alert to keep you safer when you use your car on more traditional roads. It helps you avoid minor collisions, so you don’t have to end your adventure before it’s even started. What’s wilder is that’s not the end of it. In efforts to keep you safe, Ford also installed rear-view cameras, parking sensors, a Lane-Keeping System, Pre-Collision Assist with Automatic Emergency Braking, adaptive cruise control, and so much more. For the full, comprehensive list of a 2025 Ford Bronco Sport’s safety features, check out Ford’s overview site or talk to us at Future Ford of Sacramento.

With comfort and ease in mind, any Ford Bronco Sport also comes with ways to keep you connected on those long drives. For example, the 2025 Ford Bronco comes with a 13.2″ Infotainment touchscreen, the largest in its class. Meanwhile, with voice recognition, you can make hands-free calls whenever you need to. Or, right before you get going, you can connect your phone to your car, making playing Apple or Android music or using navigational apps all the easier. Best of all, all of these convenient features come wireless, so you don’t have to make a tangled mess out of your front seat.

Then, of course, circling back to the outdoorsy vibes, the Ford Bronco Sport comes with optional programs such as Trail Technology (which includes features like Ford Trail Control and 1-Pedal Driving), which lets you customize and adjust your off-road experience. A Bronco Sport is made to make every adventure better.

The Bronco Sport is Born to Be Wild

If you are someone who loves the outdoors and can’t wait to get back out there, the Ford Bronco Sport is a great vehicle. You can balance the rugged vibes of the natural world and your honest comfort needs. That’s invaluable for any journey—be it a long road trip or the daily drive to work. Your life should be the most exciting adventure you’ll go on, and your Bronco Sport is there with you every step to support all your favorite hobbies. Though a Ford Bronco Sport works great on any road, it’s exactly what an active adventurer needs.


[a] MSRP may change without notice. See dealer for complete details.

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