The manual transmission refuses to die quietly. While plenty of automakers have quietly dropped the clutch pedal from their lineups, Ford has doubled down with one of the most purpose-built stick shifts in the business: a seven-speed manual gearbox engineered specifically for the Ford Bronco and its off-road ambitions. That seventh gear isn’t an overdrive — it’s a dedicated crawler ratio, and it changes what a manual transmission can do in the dirt.
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