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I attended the Moab off Roadeo Sept 12th in Moab. As others have said, it was great. They had 6 2025 BL Sasquatch vehicles. There were 4 couples and 2 single folks, one of those being me.
The guide wanted to ride with one of the singles as a passenger - my hand shot up. So I had the guide in my vehicle for nearly 8 hrs to pick his brain, run things by, etc. It was really nice. I have the same vehicle, and have been doing some off road travel around Silverton, CO, so I had some experience and a lot of questions. They all were answered.
As all have said who have been, these vehicles are amazing. Our guide had been off roading for decades, does the baja 500, and has been a guide for Bronco off roadeo since they started in 2001. He leads trips in both the big Bronco and the Bronco Sport. So, he had a lot of knowledge and experience. He said he likes the Sports as they are more comfortable and you don't get as beat up.
They ran the tires at about 22psi cold. It made the vehicle very comfortable off road with lots of traction, and were ok on the highway. We drove 115 miles, with 60 of that on highway, and 55 off road. The guide said he had never seen a Sport get stuck in the sand. The AWD/4WD in these things is amazing. There was some heavy rain squalls around us, on us, and some flash floods, but we didn't get too affected. Made for a cooler day and was fun to drive in different conditions. The Sports did great in all that was thrown as us. We did detour towards the end due to a large creek that was flash flooding and was too risky to go through.
Some photos for your enjoyment. As always with photos and videos, it seems to flatten things a bit. Nothing looks very hard from the photos/videos, but they were challenging and fun.
John, you will have a blast next month - the terrain is very similar to what you have in Arizona, so it will be fun for you.
We turned around here and went a different way. I know it doesn't look like much, but you can see where the creek had been about 20' further up the bank on each side. The ground there was saturated - I stood on it and tapped my foot, and the ground was quivering and my foot dropping down. Would not have been fun to get your wheels stuck in that.
The guide wanted to ride with one of the singles as a passenger - my hand shot up. So I had the guide in my vehicle for nearly 8 hrs to pick his brain, run things by, etc. It was really nice. I have the same vehicle, and have been doing some off road travel around Silverton, CO, so I had some experience and a lot of questions. They all were answered.
As all have said who have been, these vehicles are amazing. Our guide had been off roading for decades, does the baja 500, and has been a guide for Bronco off roadeo since they started in 2001. He leads trips in both the big Bronco and the Bronco Sport. So, he had a lot of knowledge and experience. He said he likes the Sports as they are more comfortable and you don't get as beat up.
They ran the tires at about 22psi cold. It made the vehicle very comfortable off road with lots of traction, and were ok on the highway. We drove 115 miles, with 60 of that on highway, and 55 off road. The guide said he had never seen a Sport get stuck in the sand. The AWD/4WD in these things is amazing. There was some heavy rain squalls around us, on us, and some flash floods, but we didn't get too affected. Made for a cooler day and was fun to drive in different conditions. The Sports did great in all that was thrown as us. We did detour towards the end due to a large creek that was flash flooding and was too risky to go through.
Some photos for your enjoyment. As always with photos and videos, it seems to flatten things a bit. Nothing looks very hard from the photos/videos, but they were challenging and fun.
John, you will have a blast next month - the terrain is very similar to what you have in Arizona, so it will be fun for you.
We turned around here and went a different way. I know it doesn't look like much, but you can see where the creek had been about 20' further up the bank on each side. The ground there was saturated - I stood on it and tapped my foot, and the ground was quivering and my foot dropping down. Would not have been fun to get your wheels stuck in that.
