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2021 Ford Bronco WildTrak
This week Two Guys And A Ride got the chance to review the 2021 Ford Bronco Drivers Information Screen and the Infotainment System for our YouTube Channel Two Guys And A Ride.
The Drivers Information Screen
This particular 2021 Ford Bronco WildTrak edition was fully loaded including the Sasquatch package, the only thing it did not have was the leather powered front seats. So the Drivers Information Screen is partial analogue and partially digital. The speedometer sits to the left with an engine temperature gauge at the bottom of it, and the rest of the screen is all digital. The way it is designed is that the main part of the screen is not configurable, but the very left side of it is. The portion that stays static contains the fuel, digital speedometer and tach and driver safety systems display. THe very left side of that window contains a lot of information such as a “My View” settings were you can toggle through about 6 different screens of information. Now that information can be personalized by the driver as they can select which six screens they want to show as there are more than six items you can choose from, and the range from standard items such as fuel economy, Tire Pressure and so on to Off Road gauges. This way the driver can preselect these screens and then easily get to them with just a couple clicks. The rest of the information in that area, then gets very specific. So if your just looking for Off Road gauges, there’s a spot you can go to where that is all it will show you, same goes for FuelEconomy and Trip Information. So basically you can access the “My View” area and see everything at once, or go into each specific area, which then limits what you see, and what you will see only pertains to that specific area. In some ways its just two different ways to access the same information.
The Infotainment System
The Infotainment System on this particular Bronco had the large 12” horizontal screen that was powered by Fords new Sync 4 system, which really is a Hugh improvement over the former Sync 3 System. In General it is much faster, and a much cleaner, easier to figure out manner. It also had the 10 speaker (including subwoofer Bang & Olufsen sound system.
The way the screen is laid out you’ve got 3 basic areas. The first is what I would call the main screen, as it takes up most of the space. This is where all your apps appear when you click on them such as Radio and Navigation. The second area is just to the left of the main screen and it contains several different screens that you can access with just a swipe up or down so you can have two pieces of information displayed at the same time. The third portion of the screen are the dedicated shortcuts to all the features in the system. So you have a button for Audio, Phone, Navigation, Apps, Settings, and Features.
So the basic Apps such as Radio, Phone, Navigation etc work pretty much like any other modern infotainment system, what is unique here is that Ford has done away with the traditional Home Screen, and has instead made all categories available through the buttons at the bottom of the screen.
I liked the way Ford has classified or categorized the buttons at the bottom of the screen. It is intuitive figuring out which one to push to access certain features. For example if you want to change a setting on something, you click on the only button that makes sense “Settings”, where as if you want to access a feature of the truck such as the perimeter lighting, you would click on the Features button.
And last and I do like the way you can expand the navigation app to full screen, as you can’t do that to all the app windows.
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