OK, Ford, make me cash in my life insurance and withdraw the balances in my IRAs by offering this:

1. Body-On-Frame

2. Two doors with removable windows

3. Removable roof with a liftback

4. 5-speed manual driving a dual-range transfer case

5. Solid axles front and rear

6. Front & rear 9" differentials (with pinion shaft bearings at each end and integral pumps to force-lube those bearings) on more rugged axle housings (I've bent mine too often)

7. Front & rear lockers that are manually engaged/disengaged--ARB Air Lockers would be my recommendation

8. All steel locking hubs--standard on the front axle, optional on the rear axle (for flat towing)

9. Sealed runs-all-day-while-submerged wiring--ignition, lights, winches, audio, whatever

10. Heater(s) for the front passengers and for the rear passengers--but not heated via the engine coolant

11. 16" forged wheels. Legal bead-lock 16" forged wheels optional

12. The largest four wheel disk brakes that will fit into the wheels, with ABS that has a "Disengaged" setting

13. Full under-body skid plate(s)

14. Tube bumpers front-&-rear: Brushed stainless, black-finished stainless, or body-color stainless. Fuck rust.

15. Two tow hoops up front and two tow hoops back in the rear

16. Winch plates front-&-rear, with wiring and control cable connections. Mounting holes for popular winches. Winches are a personal thing--upon which few agree. Let 'em supply their own

17. Engines. Ford has a lot of great ones, so make the engine compartment BIG. Vehicle gross weight will likely be pretty high if the vehicle has a lot of cross-members, plenty of gusseting, and HD transmissions, HD transfer cases, HD driveshafts, HD universal joints, HD differentials, HD axles, HD brakes, yada yada yada so torque and horsepower needs to be abundant. The 3.5 V6 is solid (We have one in our Flex), and the EcoBoost version should be an option. I want the F-150 Coyote 5.0 myself.

A diesel has been requested by several who posted upstream in this thread. I've no objection--but take the realistic view that a Bronco with solid off-road abilities as delivered won't be cheap. Maybe less $$ than a Raptor, but not by much. Will the price of the Bronco plus the likely optional cost of whatever diesel may be offered sell enough units to make it viable? I can't predict how many Broncos will sell with the three likely engines (the 3.5 V6, the EcoBoost 3.5 V6, and the truck 5.0 V8) so I cannot offer any insight as to what those with vehicle marketing knowledge might project for sales of diesel Broncos. I hope it's available for those who would buy it.

18. Options: No doubt air conditioning will be number one and audio hardware of some kind will probably be number two (just a rugged CD player and a waterproof weather radio is all I need). Ring-&-pinion sets would be big with me, as would Air Lockers, optional fuel tanks so you don't hafta carry so many jerry cans of fuel, powerful lighting, at least a rollbar or two (a frame-mounted full-cage is something I would always pay extra for), engine compartment lighting, underbody lighting--not the nasty colored neons but service lighting to see universal joints, steering linkage, and trailer hitch apparatus at night, and a number of other things I'll hafta add when I have time.