A 2023 Ford Bronco DR with throwback paint has surfaced on the market on Bring a Trailer.

Introduced in 2021, the Bronco DR (quick for Desert Racer) is a turnkey race truck supposed as a non secular successor to Broncos that competed in the Baja 1000 within the Sixties and Seventies. Simply 50 are thought to have been constructed, all as 2023 fashions with a mid-$200,000 price ticket.

The truck up on the market stands out much more because of physique panels completed in Mystichrome, the color-shifting paint solely supplied from the manufacturing unit on the 2004 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra.

The remainder of the truck seems to be factory-spec, that means it sports activities a Coyote 5.0-liter V-8 delivering an estimated 400 hp. The V-8 drives all 4 wheels by means of a 10-speed computerized transmission and unbiased electronically locking entrance and rear differentials, pushing 6,200 kilos of auto in race trim.

2023 Ford Bronco DR (photograph by way of Convey a Trailer)

Ford additionally gave the Bronco DR distinctive bodywork to cowl widened 73.7-inch entrance and 73.3-inch rear tracks, together with a roll cage and critical chassis upgrades. Highlights embrace Positional Selective DSSV Dampers from Multimatic and 37-inch BFGoodrich Mud-Terrain T/A KM3 tires with 17-inch beadlock wheels.

When it introduced the Bronco DR, Ford claimed the race truck boasted 55.1% extra entrance suspension journey, at 15.8 inches, and 58.6% extra rear suspension journey, at 17.4 inches, in comparison with a stock four-door Bronco Badlands. Ford additionally quoted method, departure, and breakover angles of 47, 37, and 33 levels, respectively.

2023 Ford Bronco DR (photograph by way of Convey a Trailer)

The inside consists of solely the fundamentals. Two seats are squeezed between the roll cage, with a Motec C187 show and CAN information acquisition system within the middle of the dashboard. A 65-gallon gasoline tank and spare tire are housed behind the driving force and passenger.

As a result of this can be a race automobile not supposed for street use, the Bronco DR is obtainable solely with a invoice of sale and doesn’t have a title or registration. For people who desire a road-legal Bronco with some desert-racer character, there’s always the Bronco Raptor.