Choose the appropriate choices when ordering a brand new Bronco and you’ll give Ford’s retro SUV superhero-grade off-road powers. However decide the unsuitable place to play, like the driving force of this Bronco in Maine, did, and also you’ll get a swift and painful reminder that mom nature is at all times extra highly effective.

These pictures come from Bar Harbor in Maine, the place a brand new Ford Bronco has spent the previous two days caught within the sand, and far of that point underwater. The four-door Bronco, which apparently has New Jersey plates, was trapped by Bar Harbor’s quickly rising tide late Saturday afternoon and makes an attempt to free it on Saturday night time and Sunday each failed.

Unconfirmed native stories say the out-of-state driver ignored warning indicators about driving automobiles on the bar too close to to excessive tide and was performing donuts on the sand earlier than they received caught.

Makes an attempt to tug the Bronco out on Saturday night time earlier than the tide got here in failed, that means it needed to endure an evening totally submerged till rescue groups returned at low tide the subsequent morning. However the Bronco’s transmission and/or brakes are locked tight, and efforts to yank the SUV free ended with a snapped 3-in tow rope and the Ford nonetheless firmly caught, with the tide coming in once more.

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The crew returned on Sunday night, and was capable of drag the Bronco about 100 ft (30 m) however was once more pressured to surrender with the tide making its approach in direction of the shore. Based on WDEA, the brand new plan is for a diver to return with airbags on Monday morning at low tide (06.29), in order that the automotive can then be floated to the shore at excessive tide, which is 12.39.

Precisely how a lot injury has been accomplished to the Bronco stays to be seen, however the proprietor actually isn’t going to be driving it again to New Jersey. Aside from shouldering some rescue prices, and battling along with his insurer to see if it’s going to even cowl the injury, some commenters on the Bronco6g discussion board have pointed to footage displaying what seems to be oil or gasoline leakages across the Bronco and speculated that he may face environmental answer fines.

This isn’t the primary time the temptation to carry out a load of donuts the place you undoubtedly shouldn’t have landed a Bronco driver in a heap of bother. In February we reported {that a} driver was taken into custody after ripping up the bottom at Petco Park, house of the San Diego Padres.

H/T to WDEA, which is price trying out for further footage of the stricken Bronco