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Auto Blog
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- Automotive
- Auto Blog
2025 Ford Bronco Pricing Will Have Hardcore Off-Roaders Smiling
Good News! The Most Badass Bronco Is More Affordable Ford is always quick to announce incentives just when it looks like automakers can't afford to take any more hits, and now it's about to make its most hardcore off-roader even cheaper. According to Bronco Nation, the Blue Oval is readying adjusted pricing for six variants of the Bronco, but not all of it is good news. While the particularly off-road-focused models at the top of the tree will get trimmed MSRPs, and the Raptor shaves more than $10,000 off, lower-hanging fruit is about to become a little harder to reach. Worse still, the increases also impact color and other options. But we're being dramatic; the increases, for the most part, are minor. $1,000 Increases Are Not Too Bitter A Pill To Swallow As noted in the report, the 2025 Bronco arrived without any increases over the 2024 version, so these increases come with improvements. The smallest increase is for the Badlands Two Door, which now starts $290 higher at $50,095. The biggest increases come to both versions of the base Bronco, at $1,000, but most trims are unchanged or cheaper, with the kicker being that the Raptor is more than 10 grand cheaper, sneaking in under $80,000. In addition, the Badlands trim now has equal pricing between two- and four-door options. However, the prices you see mentioned above and below exclude a new destination charge, which has increased by a C-note and is now $1,995. MY2025 Bronco Trim 2024 Pricing 2025 Pricing Difference Base 2-Dr $37,995 $38,995 +$1,000 Base 4-Dr $37,995 $38,995 +$1,000 Badlands 2-Dr $50,095 $50,385 +$290 Badlands 4-Dr $51,385 $50,385 -$1,000 Stroppe Edition 2-Dr $75,635 $75,635 – Big Bend 4-Dr $40,370 $41,220 +$850 Heritage Edition 4-Dr $49,475 $49,475 – Outer Banks 4-Dr $47,940 $47,940 – Raptor 4-Dr $90,035 $79,995 -$10,040 Destination Charge $1,895 $1,995 +$100 Some Options Will Now Cost You More Source: Ford This might not necessarily be a big increase, but it's a big change: the 10-speed automatic, which is optional on some trims, will cost $300 more ($1,795 for 2025). Velocity Blue, Marsh Gray, and Desert Sand optional paints go up a hundred bucks to $395 for 2025, too, but that's it. Bronco Nation reports that the MSRP changes 'went into effect on June 2,' but don't take their word for it, nor ours: the 2025 Ford Bronco configurator already reflects the updates. Sadly, more mainstream models in the Ford lineup have seen increases, but who knows? If Ford stays true to form, we may see more incentives in the next quarter, which is almost upon us. About the Author Sebastian Cenizo View Profile
Metro
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Jurassic World Evolution 3 lets you breed dinosaurs and it's out this year
A new entry in the Jurassic World Evolution series has been announced, with baby dinosaurs and the return of Jeff Goldblum. While there have been plenty of games based on Jurassic Park over the years, the best is easily its translation into a management sim in Jurassic World Evolution 2. Developed by Frontier, the series is basically RollerCoaster Tycoon spun through a Jurassic Park lens, where you have to build a park and keep profits ticking over, while managing the satisfaction of customers and the dinosaurs themselves. During Summer Game Fest, Frontier announced a third entry in the series, and the key hook this time around is the ability to breed and nurture baby dinosaurs. As shown in the trailer, Jurassic World Evolution 3 boasts a new breeding system which allows you to house families of dinosaurs within your park. There are over 80 dinosaur species in the sequel, 75 of which players can breed. The sequel promises a new globe-trotting campaign, with maps spanning from Japan to Hawaii. Jeff Goldblum reprises his role as Dr Ian Malcolm too, after lending his voice to the prior two instalments. There's no word though on whether anyone else from the franchise will return. As noted in a press release, Jurassic World Evolution 3 features expanded customisation for your parks, with new terrain tools to create mountain peaks and canyons, while texture brushes can help you add extra detail to landscapes. Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. For the first time in the series, you can share your parks, dinosaur enclosures, and scenery creations with others via the cross-platform Frontier Workshop. More Trending Jurassic World Evolution 3 is set to launch on October 21 across PlayStation 5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S for £49.99. A deluxe edition, which includes four extra dinosaurs (Protoceratops, Guanlong, Thanatosdrakon, and Concavenator), scenery items, and exclusive ATV vehicle skins, will be available for £64.99. If you pre-order the sequel, players will receive a Badlands set at launch which includes scenery items inspired by the original Jurassic Park's dig site, along with scenery blueprints from the Montana Badlands, and a Badlands ATV skin for the maintenance crew. This isn't the only Jurassic Park game in development, with Jurassic Park: Survival also in the works at Saber Interactive. A new film, titled Jurassic World: Rebirth, is set to hit cinemas on July 2, 2025. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: Call Of Duty 2026 campaign has a brand new setting for Modern Warfare says leak MORE: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate gets Switch 2 upgrade but there's a problem MORE: Nintendo Switch 2 GameChat feature doesn't censor swear words
Geek Tyrant
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
PREDATOR: BADLANDS Director Talks About The Hunter Becoming The Hunted in His New Film — GeekTyrant
Hot off the heels of Predator: Killer of Killers , the brutal animated anthology now streaming on Hulu and Disney+, director Dan Trachtenberg is talking about his next live action film in the franchise, Predator: Badlands , which is going to shake up the franchise in a fun way. Instead of following a new group of humans being stalked, this story centers on a Yautja named Dek, an outcast from his own kind who ends up being the one running for his life. Talk talking about this aspect of the story, Trachtenberg told GamesRadar+: 'I've always been interested in characters trying to prove themselves. The real special of Badlands is that it is not just another Predator movie, and we're not just doing the thing where you cut to the Predator and it kills people one by one. 'Every chapter [in the series] brings its own special engine to the franchise, and the fun of Badlands is really the inversion of it all—that this time, the Predator is the one being hunted, and he is the one needing to prove himself. Badlands is thematically linked to the entire franchise in that way.' The Predator franchise has always thrived on a core idea… survival of the fittest, but Badlands asks what happens when the apex predator is no longer at the top of the food chain, and what he's willing to do to climb back. Dek (played by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) teams up with a synthetic android named Thia (Elle Fanning), who appears to be a creation of the Weyland-Yutani Corporatio from the Alien universe. Together, the unlikely pair sets out on a journey to find what's described as 'the ultimate adversary,' all while other Predators are tracking Dek down like prey. The hunter has become the hunted. The script was written by Patrick Aison, with Trachtenberg also on board as producer alongside John Davis, Marc Toberoff, Ben Rosenblatt, and Brent O'Connor. If you've been following Trachtenberg's journey through this universe, this marks his third time playing in the Predator sandbox. His first, Prey , was a prequel set in 1719 that became Hulu's biggest hit on launch. Then came Killer of Killers , which takes the franchise into adult animation territory, featuring three different warriors facing off with the galaxy's deadliest hunter in three differnet periods of time. But Badlands is a redefining take on the franchise. Instead of repeating the familiar beats, Trachtenberg seems intent on cracking the formula open and seeing what else the franchise can be. The decision to center the story on a Predator character, and an outcast at that, is a very cool, interesting, and unique move for the franchise. Predator: Badlands hits theaters on November 7, 2025.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rosanna Norton, Oscar-Nominated Costume Designer on ‘Tron,' Dies at 80
Costume designer Rosanna Norton, who received an Oscar nomination for the sci-fi classic Tron and also worked on Badlands, Carrie, The Stunt Man and Frankie and Johnny during her four-decade career, has died. She was 80. Norton died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles of bladder cancer, her granddaughter Mira Gonzalez told The Hollywood Reporter. More from The Hollywood Reporter Greg Cannom, Oscar-Winning Makeup Artist on 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' and 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' Dies at 73 Lainie Miller, Burlesque Dancer in 'The Graduate' and Longtime Hollywood Labor Advocate, Dies at 84 James Foley, Director of 'Glengarry Glen Ross,' 'House of Cards' and 'Fifty Shades,' Dies at 71 Norton also collaborated with Joe Dante on Explorers (1985), Innerspace (1987), The 'Burbs (1989) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) and with Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker on Airplane! (1980) and Ruthless People (1986). She worked with Terrence Malick on Badlands (1973), with Brian De Palma on Phantom of the Paradise (1974) and Carrie (1976), with Richard Rush on The Stunt Man (1980) and with Garry Marshall on Frankie and Johnny (1991). She shared her Oscar nom for Steven Lisberger's Tron (1982) with Elois Jenssen. The oldest of four kids, Rosanna White was born in Los Angeles on Oct. 1, 1944. Her mother, Ann Stanford, was an acclaimed poet and founding member of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and her father, Roland, was an architect. While attended UCLA as a painting major, she met future husband Bill Norton, then made her film debut as the costume designer on the 1971 film he co-wrote and directed, the Kris Kristofferson-starring Cisco Pike (1971). 'I would have been a painter,' she once said, 'but was really lucky to get on some really good pictures through my friendships with directors Brian De Palma and Terry Malick.' She joined the Costume Directors Guild in 1975. Her résumé included Messiah of Evil (1974), Outlaw Blues (1977), Robert Zemeckis' I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Joan Micklin Silver's Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979), Airplane II (1982), RoboCop 2 (1990), The Flintstones (1994), The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) and Detroit Rock City (1999). After costume designing — her last credit was Pool Boys (2009) — Norton returned to her first love, painting. Survivors include her daughter, Lora; her grandchildren, Mira, Milo, Lola, Isaac and Kayla; and her sister, Pat. She also was briefly married to director James Bryan. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now "A Nutless Monkey Could Do Your Job": From Abusive to Angst-Ridden, 16 Memorable Studio Exec Portrayals in Film and TV The 10 Best Baseball Movies of All Time, Ranked
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Yahoo
North Dakota tribal national park to open Badlands to visitors
Jack Dura Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. — A new tribal national park in North Dakota's rugged Badlands is opening a little-seen area of the dramatic landscape to hikers and other outdoors enthusiasts, part of a Native American tribe's efforts to preserve the land and encourage recreation. The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation established Three Affiliated Tribes National Park with the purchase of 2,100 acres (850 hectares) of a former ranch adjacent to the Fort Berthold Reservation's boundaries on the south side of the Little Missouri River. The area was in the tribe's original treaty lands but a government allotment act later reduced the reservation's size, said Mary Fredericks, director of the tribe's Parks and Reserve Program. The reservation's boundaries have expanded to include the park. Tribal Chairman Mark Fox said the goal is to establish a park for cultural and recreational purposes such as canoeing, kayaking and viewing wildlife. 'It's part of our history, our lands, very significant to us, the whole area,' Fox said. 'This is just another strong move to reacquire some of our lands and then do something very effective with it, so to speak' to aid tourism and the economy through recreation. Park officials are being careful with how they plan and develop the park to be thoughtful about impacts on the landscape. 'This place will be here in perpetuity and it will be better when we are done than it was when we got it, and that's what we're pushing for, that's where we're headed,' Park Superintendent Ethan White Calfe said. North Dakota's Badlands — the name denotes the difficult terrain — comprise a stark, erosive, colorful landscape with dramatic shapes, petrified wood and ancient fossils. The area draws hikers, campers, hunters, bicyclists and other outdoors enthusiasts. The park, which held a soft opening in September, is open only to foot traffic by a free permit online. Park officials require visitors to register their plans and hikers must park at a grass lot. By the end of the summer, organizers hope to have 10 miles (16 kilometers) of trails finished, Fredericks said. Plans to build a visitor center and campground are in the works. Park officials also intend to work on native prairie and soil restoration in the erosive environment where some native plants that thrive in the area have been pushed out by invasive species, White Calfe said. 'We're looking at it as how do we help this area look like it did 300 years ago? How do we help this area heal to where it is in a lot of more of a state of equilibrium,' White Calfe said. It's a beautiful and picturesque but deceptive and steep landscape, Fredericks said. The park is bisected by a state highway that drops from a flat into a rugged river bottom. People can see parts of the park while driving, but not its interior, she said. Eventually, the park could be a gateway for visitors to the reservation, Fredericks said. Outdoor recreation is available at Lake Sakakawea, which straddles the vast reservation, and nearby at Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the Maah Daah Hey Trail. The MHA Nation benefits from oil development on its reservation, which helped the tribe to afford the land for the park, Fredericks said. 'But in that we have to be careful and preserve and conserve,' she said. 'I'm very, very proud of our tribal council for having the foresight to buy this land with the intent of making it into a national park ... because we don't know what's going to happen 50 years from now and what our landscape is going to look like, but we can preserve this part of it.' The park neighbors Little Missouri State Park, which draws horseback riders to its 40 miles (64 kilometers) of trails in the Badlands. The rugged landscape 'kind of has that almost spiritual feel to it. It's peaceful,' state Parks and Recreation Department Director Cody Schulz said. State park officials have worked with the tribe for about two years on its plans and partnering together, such as connecting trail systems, Schulz said. Tribal park officials are collaborating with anyone willing, Fredericks said. White Calfe said the park is an opportunity 'to tell our own story, our own narrative from our own perspective in a place like this. That's pretty valuable.'
