Ford rolling out new Bronco on OJ Simpsons birthday.

[Jim Oaks]

After a highly anticipated wait, Ford Motor Co. announced it’s releasing the new Bronco on July 9 — which just so happens to be O.J. Simpson’s 73rd birthday.

The Bronco was infamously linked to Simpson’s halfhearted escape attempt after police charged him with murder in the early 1990s. Ford was none too pleased with the association at the time, the Detroit Free Press reported.

As for the new release date? “Purely coincidental,” Mike Levine, Ford North America product communications manager, told the Free Press.
“We’re going to reveal Bronco just like we said we would on July 9,” he said when the newspaper checked Monday to confirm the planned release date.

Simpson infamously tried to flee the authorities on the night of June 17, 1994 — exactly 26 years ago Wednesday — in the back of a white Bronco driven by his friend and former teammate, Al Cowlings, CNN reported. Simpson had just been charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Police followed the 1994 Ford Bronco more than 50 miles through Orange County, California, in what might have been the slowest car chase ever, according to the History Channel.

The low-speed chase lasted nearly two hours while some 95 million people tuned in to watch on their televisions, The New York Times reported a few days later.
Simpson turned himself in later that night and a federal jury acquitted him on both murder counts in 1995, according to media reports.

 

[Dirtman]

 

[Curious Hound]

They should have made this announcement on April 1.

 

[ford4wd08]

If the first one they unveil is white.... I think it will be marketing genius....

Think of all the press they will get! For free!

 

[Ranger850]

They should send him a white one, have it delivered on the 17th.

 

[Uncle Gump]

I'm thinking Ford is wishing that this association wasn't there... and they could distance themselves as far from it as possible. But they've delayed the reveal a couple times already... the show must go on!

 

[Dirtman]

Are you kidding me? Video of a ford bronco outrunning a bunch of chevy cop cars was pure marketing gold! OJ should get royalties for that!

 

[Curious Hound]

They should send him a white one, have it delivered on the 17th.

17th is my birthday. They could send me one.

 

[Ramcharger90]

I love this.

 

[Dirtman]

Now that OJ is a free man when the hell are they gonna make 'Naked Gun 4 and 3/8ths'?

 

[Ranger850]

I'm thinking Ford is wishing that this association wasn't there... and they could distance themselves as far from it as possible. But they've delayed the reveal a couple times already... the show must go on!

The gift and the Curse.
Gift: I've heard that white bronco sales went through he roof after this
Curse: "Murder"

 

[racsan]

I did hear that sales went up after that “chase” . too bad they did it at low speed , would of been neat if they went off- highway and did some dukes of hazzard stuff, with tahoes behind it.

 

[Ramcharger90]

Now that OJ is a free man when the hell are they gonna make 'Naked Gun 4 and 3/8ths'?

How could it work missing 2 out of these 3 characters?

 

[Ranger850]

I did hear that sales went up after that “chase” . too bad they did it at low speed , would of been neat if they went off- highway and did some dukes of hazzard stuff, with tahoes behind it.

Maybe in the movie

 

[Grumpaw]

Now that OJ is a free man when the hell are they gonna make 'Naked Gun 4 and 3/8ths'?

I heard he was getting a job, at least his hands were, as a "glove model"