Ford Explorer

"Ford has changed everything about the new Explorer, yet it's still instantly and instinctively recognizable as a Ford Explorer," suggests Moray Callum, Ford's Executive Director of North America Design. With customers out of love with large SUVs and demanding better fuel economy, Ford has rethought the large SUV. This is the first Explorer to use unibody construction, saving 180kg in weight compared to the previous model.
The exterior, designed under the management of Melvin Betancourt, is less radical than NAIAS 2008's Explorer America concept may have led us to believe but nonetheless features more car-like styling and Ford's now familiar three-bar North American grille. Blacked out A, B and D-pillars lend the car a strong graphical identity, combining with wrap-around head and taillights and blown fenders to give the car a powerful stance, yet helping it appear more compact than its 5006mm length, 2209mm width and 1800mm height suggest.
The interior, designed under the management of Mike Arbaugh was quality benchmarked against Audi and features Ford's new MyFord Touch center console and gauge cluster design hallthe system used in Land Rover products.