Dana's twin-clutch axle boosts Ford Bronco Sport's off-road cred

Bandwidth is the Holy Grail of global vehicle development. Its measure of success includes the ability to derive genuinely diverse products and even entire brands from a common set of bones. There's also the vision to leverage key supplier technologies when model differentiation is needed. Case in point: Ford's unibody C2 platform, the 2021 Bronco Sport, and Dana Inc.

Development of the all-new compact utility aimed at the North American market kicked off six months after its Escape/Kuga global cousin and progressed in parallel with Ford's development of the larger, body-on-frame Bronco. There was quite a bit of know-how sharing among the three teams, explained Bronco Sport's veteran engineering manager Eddie Kahn, whose experience was honed on the first-generation F-150 Raptor program.