Cars we wish were sold here: Ford Bronco Sport

Ford’s Bronco Sport is highlighted as a missing piece of Australia’s lineup, filling the gap left by the brand’s reduced medium-SUV range. Ford sold 135,000 Bronco Sports in the U.S. in 2025, while Australia has fewer comparable offerings compared with brands’ earlier Escape-era presence. The Bronco Sport is a smaller SUV than the full-size Bronco, sharing retro styling cues like round headlights and a boxy, upright rear profile, but using a different platform. It rides on the C2 platform underpinned the Escape and the previous Focus. Pricing in the U.S. starts around US$32,000 for the Big Bend and rises to about US$42,000 for the top-spec Badlands. It comes with turbo petrol engines: a 1.5-liter 134kW/270Nm setup for most models and a 2.0-liter 186kW/380Nm unit for Badlands, both with an eight-speed automatic and standard all-wheel drive.