Ford Bronco Sport Towing Capacity in Kingston: Engine and Tow Package First
Bronco Sport towing capacity starts with two things fitted at the factory, the engine and the Class II Trailer Tow Package, since Ford Canada gives each engine its own figure and makes the package required equipment for any trailer over 1,500 lb. Read on October 30, 2026, Ford Canada's 2026 Bronco Sport towing guide rates a properly equipped 2026 Bronco Sport at 2,200 lb maximum loaded trailer weight with the 1.5L EcoBoost I-3, and at 2,700 lb with the 2.0L EcoBoost I-4, which that guide ties to the Badlands, each figure assuming the Class II Trailer Tow Package and a driver and passenger of 150 lb.
A used Bronco Sport is rated by the Ford Canada guide that matches its model year, and the guides for 2021 to 2024 print lower figures than the Bronco Sport guides for 2025 and 2026.
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Key Takeaways
A 2,000 lb maximum loaded trailer weight goes with a properly equipped 2024 Bronco Sport carrying the 1.5L EcoBoost I-3, on Big Bend, Free Wheeling, Outer Banks and Heritage models with the available Class II Trailer Tow Package (53B), in Ford Canada's 2024 guide as read on October 30, 2026. Jim Thompson Chrysler in Kingston would confirm the engine and the factory package on a used 2024 Bronco Sport before any trailer goes behind it, because Ford's figure is tied to that engine, those models and that package.
Any trailer over 1,500 lb calls for the Class II Trailer Tow Package on a Bronco Sport, which Ford Canada's guides list as required equipment above that weight in every year from 2021 to 2026. Ford's 1,500 lb line marks where the package becomes required, and it is not a rating for a Bronco Sport without the package.
Figures for a 2021 to 2024 Bronco Sport sit below its 2025 and 2026 figures in Ford Canada's guides, so a used Bronco Sport from those years is held to its own year's guide. Ford Canada's guides for 2021 to 2024 rate a properly equipped Bronco Sport at 2,000 lb with the 1.5L EcoBoost I-3 on the models each guide names, and at 2,200 lb with the 2.0L EcoBoost I-4 on the Badlands (in 2023, also the Heritage Limited), each with the Class II Trailer Tow Package (53B).
A hitch receiver on a used Bronco Sport keeps the factory-package question open, since a 2021 Base model could get its towing equipment only as a dealer accessory, according to Ford Canada's 2021 guide. We would look for the Class II Trailer Tow Package named in writing before the hitch is trusted with a trailer.
Badlands on a Bronco Sport points to the 2.0L EcoBoost I-4 in every Ford Canada guide from 2021 to 2026, but Sasquatch does not, because the 2025 and 2026 Bronco Sport guides pair a Sasquatch package with each engine. Which engine a used Bronco Sport carries decides the row of its year's guide that applies to it.
A used Bronco Sport can be financed, O.A.C., with the credit application started online. Any approval depends on the review of your application.
What Light Trailers Put Bronco Sport Towing Capacity to Use Around Kingston?
A pair of kayaks on a small trailer and a borrowed utility trailer carrying a few pieces of furniture are the kind of light trailers that put Bronco Sport towing capacity to use around Kingston. Ford Canada's 2021 guide and its Bronco Sport guides for 2025 and 2026 place a hitch receiver and a 4-pin trailer wiring harness in the Class II Trailer Tow Package, the two items a small trailer like that connects to.
You strap a pair of kayaks onto a small trailer on a calm May morning while the street is quiet.
Your friend climbs into the Bronco Sport with the paddles and a dry bag at her feet, and the two of you head for a put-in on the Cataraqui River.
In September, your sister spots a pine dresser and two nightstands at an estate sale in Strathcona Park.
You borrow a neighbour's utility trailer for the afternoon, lay moving blankets between the dresser and the nightstands, and run two straps over the top.
Your sister rides along in the Bronco Sport to carry the drawers inside, and your neighbour has the trailer back before dinner.
On a kayak morning or an estate-sale afternoon, the question before the trailer goes on is the one Ford's guide answers for the particular Bronco Sport: which engine, which package and which model year.
Is It the 1.5L or the 2.0L EcoBoost in This Bronco Sport?
A used Bronco Sport has either the 1.5L EcoBoost I-3 or the 2.0L EcoBoost I-4, the two engines Ford Canada's guides for 2021 to 2026 list for it, so the engine is the first half of its towing answer. Each of those guides gives the two engines their own rows and their own trailer figures.
In every Ford Canada guide from 2021 to 2026, the Bronco Sport's 2.0L EcoBoost I-4 row names the Badlands, and the 2023 guide adds the Heritage Limited to that row.
Sasquatch on its own does not settle the engine question, because Ford Canada's Bronco Sport guides for 2025 and 2026 name a Sasquatch Outer Banks Package on a 1.5L EcoBoost I-3 line as well as a Badlands Sasquatch Package on the 2.0L EcoBoost I-4.
Version names, and the engine Ford Canada pairs with each, are set out in our used Bronco Sport guide.
Check with our sales team on which of the two engines the Bronco Sport you are looking at carries, before you compare it with any figure.
Did This Bronco Sport Leave the Factory With the Class II Trailer Tow Package?
A used Bronco Sport may or may not have left the factory with the Class II Trailer Tow Package, which every Ford Canada guide from 2021 to 2026 lists as required equipment for trailers over 1,500 lb. Ford Canada's guides for 2021 to 2024 describe the package as available, while its Bronco Sport guides for 2025 and 2026 make it standard on the Badlands.
In the 2021 guide and the 2025 and 2026 Bronco Sport guides from Ford Canada, the Class II Trailer Tow Package lists a 4-pin trailer wiring harness, a hitch receiver, trailer sway control and a full-size spare tire. The 2025 list adds recovery hooks front and back, and the 2026 list adds a rubberized cargo floor.
Package content "may vary depending on model, trim and/or powertrain," according to Ford Canada's Bronco Sport guides for 2025 and 2026.
Ford Canada also ties the maximum trailer frontal area for a Bronco Sport/trailer combination to the package: 20 sq. ft. without the Class II Trailer Tow Package and 30 sq. ft. with it, in each guide from 2021 to 2026. Ford Canada describes frontal area as the total area, in square feet, that a moving vehicle and trailer expose to air resistance.
Ford Canada's 2021 guide is the one guide that prints a Bronco Sport figure outside the factory package: 1,500 lb for the Base model only, with towing equipment Ford lists as "only available as Dealer accessory."
How Can You Confirm the Tow Package on a Used Bronco Sport?
You can confirm the tow package on a used Bronco Sport from a window sticker or build record that names the Class II Trailer Tow Package, and at Jim Thompson Chrysler we would also read the label on its hitch receiver. Every Ford Canada guide from 2021 to 2026 says the factory hitch receiver comes with the package and that its capacity is shown on a label affixed to the receiver.
A hitch on its own does not prove the factory package, since Ford Canada's 2021 guide lists the Base model's towing equipment as a dealer accessory rather than a factory installation.
The capacity printed on a hitch receiver's label is not the trailer figure, since the hitch notes in Ford Canada's guides for 2024, 2025 and 2026 say receiver capacities may exceed the maximum loaded trailer weight for the vehicle.
On their general towing pages, Ford Canada's Bronco Sport guides for 2025 and 2026 also say that a conventional, identical full-size spare tire is required for trailer towing.
Our service department can inspect a used vehicle before purchase and tell you what it finds.
Send the request for a pre-purchase inspection on the Bronco Sport you have picked through Request Service on the service pages.
Where Does Bronco Sport Towing Capacity Land Once the Engine and Package Are Known?
Once the engine and package are known, Bronco Sport towing capacity lands on the figure Ford Canada prints for that pairing in the guide for the vehicle's model year. Ford Canada's figures changed from the 2024 guide to the 2025 guide, so each year keeps its own row below.
Model year | 1.5L EcoBoost I-3 | 2.0L EcoBoost I-4 | Package condition in that year's guide |
|---|---|---|---|
2026 | 2,200 lb | 2,700 lb (the 2026 guide ties this engine to the Badlands and the Badlands Sasquatch Package) | Requires Class II Trailer Tow Package (standard on Badlands) |
2025 | 2,200 lb (Big Bend Black Diamond Off-Road and Sasquatch Outer Banks Packages only) | 2,700 lb (Badlands Sasquatch Package) | Requires Class II Trailer Tow Package (standard on Badlands) |
2024 | 2,000 lb (Big Bend, Free Wheeling, Outer Banks and Heritage models only) | 2,200 lb (Badlands model only) | Requires available Class II Trailer Tow Package (53B) |
2023 | 2,000 lb (Big Bend, Outer Banks and Heritage models only) | 2,200 lb (Badlands and Heritage Limited models only) | Requires available Class II Trailer Tow Package (53B) |
2022 | 2,000 lb (Big Bend and Outer Banks models only) | 2,200 lb (Badlands model only) | Requires available Class II Trailer Tow Package (53B) |
2021 | 2,000 lb (Big Bend and Outer Banks models only); 1,500 lb (Base model only, towing equipment a dealer accessory) | 2,200 lb (Badlands model only) | Requires available Class II Trailer Tow Package (53B) for the 2,000 lb and 2,200 lb figures |
Ford Canada's guides for 2021 (p.37), 2022 (p.39), 2023 (p.38) and 2024 (p.34) and its Bronco Sport guides for 2025 and 2026 (p.1), read October 30, 2026, give these maximum loaded trailer weights in lb for a properly equipped Bronco Sport carrying a driver and passenger of 150 lb.
A 2025 Bronco Sport outside the packages named on its two rows has no other trailer figure in the selector table of Ford Canada's 2025 Bronco Sport towing guide. With a 2025 Bronco Sport outside those packages, Ford Canada is who to ask for a figure before any trailer goes on.
A trailer heavier than the figure for the particular Bronco Sport, or a trailer over 1,500 lb behind a Bronco Sport whose factory package cannot be confirmed, is the honest case for a different tow vehicle, which you can look for in our used inventory.
What Does Ford Canada Count Inside a Bronco Sport Towing Capacity Figure?
A Bronco Sport towing capacity figure counts a properly equipped vehicle carrying its required equipment plus a driver and passenger of 150 lb, according to the note every Ford Canada guide from 2021 to 2026 prints with the Bronco Sport figures. The same note lists cargo, accessories, option content, vehicle configuration and the number of passengers as things that change those maximums.
Ford Canada's guides for 2021 to 2024 add, on their weight-limits pages, that the maximum loaded trailer weight "assumes a towing vehicle with any mandatory options, no cargo," with a driver and passenger at 150 lbs. each. The same 2021 to 2024 guides then say the weight of additional options, passengers, cargo and hitch "must be deducted from this weight."
Under the definition in Ford Canada's guides for 2021 to 2024, the people beyond the two Ford counts, the gear in the cargo area and an added hitch all come off the trailer figure.
Every Bronco Sport selector page from Ford Canada also caps the vehicle and trailer together at the listed GCWR. Ford Canada's 2024 guide defines GCWR as the "maximum allowable weight of the towing vehicle and the loaded trailer," including all cargo and passengers.
On a general towing page, Ford Canada's Bronco Sport guides for 2025 and 2026 add that a specific vehicle's tow capability "could be reduced based on weight of selected trim series and option content."
A trailer fitted with electric trailer brakes should not go behind a Bronco Sport unless the vehicle has a compatible aftermarket electronic trailer brake controller, a warning printed on each Bronco Sport selector page from Ford Canada.
Around Kingston, a pair of kayaks bound for the Cataraqui River or a utility trailer carrying an estate-sale dresser stays within a Bronco Sport's towing capacity only when it sits under that vehicle's own year, engine and package figure, with the people and gear inside counted against it.
Would a New Jeep Compass Suit a Bronco Sport Shopper?
Yes, a new Jeep Compass can suit a Bronco Sport shopper who would rather buy new, since we see the Compass as a Jeep of similar size, and our Compass towing guide sets out what it can tow.
After you take a new Compass home, Signature Service can put one of our drivers behind its wheel for the pick-up and drop-off around a booked service visit, scheduled to suit you, based on availability; some customers get through service day without a loaner, and you can contact us for more details.
How Do Credit and a Trade-In Work on a Used Bronco Sport, O.A.C.?
Credit and a trade-in can work together on a used Bronco Sport: you can apply for financing, O.A.C., and bring your current vehicle in for an appraisal. Financing is available on the vehicles we sell, O.A.C.
Apply for financing online, from home, before you visit, O.A.C.
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If your trade is still financed for more than it would bring, the leftover balance may be added to the amount financed, increasing the amount borrowed and potentially the total cost of borrowing.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What Trailer Weight Does Ford Canada Give a 2026 Bronco Sport?
Ford Canada's 2026 Bronco Sport towing guide rates a properly equipped 2026 Bronco Sport at 2,200 lb maximum loaded trailer weight with the 1.5L EcoBoost I-3 and 2,700 lb with the 2.0L EcoBoost I-4, which it ties to the Badlands. Both figures require the Class II Trailer Tow Package and assume a driver and passenger of 150 lb.
Is the Class II Trailer Tow Package Standard on a Bronco Sport?
No, the Class II Trailer Tow Package is not standard on every Bronco Sport: Ford Canada's guides for 2021 to 2024 call it available, and its Bronco Sport guides for 2025 and 2026 list it as standard on the Badlands. The 2025 guide includes the package with the available Big Bend Black Diamond Off-Road and Outer Banks Sasquatch packages.
Does a Hitch Mean a Used Bronco Sport Has the Tow Package?
No, a hitch alone does not show that a used Bronco Sport has the factory Class II Trailer Tow Package, since Ford Canada's 2021 guide lists the Base model's towing equipment as a dealer accessory. Jim Thompson Chrysler in Kingston would read the label on the hitch receiver and check the window sticker or build record.
What Changes Above 1,500 Pounds When a Bronco Sport Tows?
For a trailer over 1,500 lb, every Ford Canada guide from 2021 to 2026 lists the Class II Trailer Tow Package as required equipment on a Bronco Sport. The 1,500 lb line is a package threshold, and the only Bronco Sport figure Ford prints without the factory package is the 2021 Base model's 1,500 lb, with dealer-accessory towing equipment.
Can Jim Thompson Chrysler Inspect a Used Bronco Sport Before You Buy?
Yes, a used Bronco Sport can be inspected before you buy it at Jim Thompson Chrysler in Kingston, while our sales team can show you any window sticker or build record that came with it. Our service department can inspect a used vehicle before purchase and tell you what it finds.
Bring Bronco Sport Towing Capacity Down to One Vehicle in Kingston
Once you know the engine, the package and the model year you are after, our used Bronco Sport results are the place to compare. Our live inventory shows what is currently available.
When the paperwork lists the package and the kayak trailer weighs no more than Ford Canada's figure for the Bronco Sport pulling it, the kayaks can go on the trailer.
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About the Author:
Kerry Irven is the Vice President of New and Used Automotive Operations for Heighton Automotive Group, a family-owned and operated automotive group serving communities across Eastern Ontario. Kerry began his automotive career in new-car sales, building his experience on the showroom floor and working his way through multi-store dealership operations.
With over 25 years in the automotive industry, Kerry has helped grow automotive businesses from one location with 40 to 50 vehicles in stock to more than 500 vehicles across 10 rooftops. His hands-on background in both new and used-vehicle operations gives him a practical understanding of what customers look for when shopping for their next vehicle.
Throughout his career, Kerry has always been actively involved in staff coaching and in understanding customer wants and needs, helping ensure the businesses he works with continue to adapt to what customers are truly looking for.
One of the most exciting chapters of his career has been the shift into modern automotive marketing, embracing new technology, transparent pricing, customer-first inventory strategies, and new ways to create a better vehicle-shopping experience.
Kerry has completed extensive automotive training, including certification through the Ontario Motor Vehicle Industry Council, involvement with the Used Car Dealers Association of Ontario, Canadian automotive dealer training, and multiple customer service courses.
Born and raised on a farm, Kerry has always valued family, hard work, and a practical, down-to-earth approach. Joining Heighton Automotive Group and working alongside Thomas Heighton and family, along with managing partners Kyle Lothian and Martin Gougeon, has allowed him to bring those same values into the car business. It has also allowed Kerry to continue following a simple philosophy: treat every customer exactly the way he would want to be treated.
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