Friday, October 2, 2015

2016 Ford Explorer Sport Tested: What’s In a Name?

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-Ford likes to tout the 2016 Explorer as the sixth-generation model. As inveterate quibblers, we’d suggest the reasoning behind that claim has more to do with eligibility criteria for various new-car awards than with the hardware on the showroom floor. It may be a quarter-century since the Explorer pretty much launched the whole SUV craze, but the 2016 rides on the same platform—one it shares with the Taurus and the Flex—as it has since 2011 when Dearborn made the big leap from body-on-frame truck to unit-body crossover and called it the fifth-generation. READ MORE ››

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