Sweetheart
We’ve seen many flavors of Ford Explorer over the years. It’s been a trucky, body-on-frame SUV and a stretched car-based crossover with roots that trace back to Volvo. It has also shown flashes of pure Ford DNA.
The common thread—no matter how it was engineered, what it looked like, or how it was critically received—has been its status as an American sweetheart. Ford has sold 7.7 million Explorers since that first one rolled off the line in 1990, and there are still 3.6 million of them on the road today.
The Explorer helped define the SUV segment and is
