The Ford Bronco is worth big bucks to some owners.
Not the mainstream model, which has starting prices ranging from around $40,000 for a Big Bend to $90,000 for a Raptor, but the Bronco DR.
The Bronco DR is a factory racing version of the Bronco that was designed and built in collaboration with Multimatic, the same company behind Ford’s sports car racing efforts, the Ford GT supercar and the upcoming Mustang GTD.
Just 50 were built last year featuring a 400 hp 5.0-liter V8 with a rear-mounted radiator, a 10-speed automatic transmission and a long-travel suspension with a set of Multimatic’s signature DSSV shock absorbers equipped with finned cooling elements for extreme competition duty.
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The Bronco DR has 15.8 inches of front suspension travel and 17.4 inches in the rear, 11.8 inches of ground clearance, a full safety cage, Sparco racing seats, a 65-gallon fuel tank and MoTec electronics. It’s a turnkey racer ready for events like the Baja 1000 and had a starting price of $295,000.
A white one was listed on the Bring A Trailer auction site this week and was bid to $305,000, but that wasn’t enough to meet the seller’s undisclosed reserve price.
Last month another one painted in Ford’s iconic Mystichrome color received a high bid of $365,000, but the owner was also looking for more.
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At least one person was willing to pony up, because a Bronco DR with the model’s red, white and blue signature livery was sold at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction in January for $440,000.
That’s the highest price paid for one and, well, the only publicly known sale so far, according to Classic.com.
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Despite the original sell-out, Ford hasn’t announced plans for a follow-up yet, but will be launching the Mustang GTD later this year.
The $300,000 supercar has an 800 hp supercharged 5.2-liter V8 and bodywork based on the Mustang GT3 race car that competes in IMSA and WEC. Ford hasn’t said how many will be built, but word on the street is that it could be as many as 2,000.
That probably doesn’t matter to you, however, because Ford CEO Jim Farley told American Cars And Racing that it’s pretty much sold out already.
