The popular Ford Explorer had a driver death rate of 56 per 1 million registered vehicle years.
This makes it worse than even the city rating of a Ford Explorer SUV.
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Ford Explorer: The Explorer was in a need of fresh face and it found one.
He built a contraption that opened and shut the windows of a modified Ford Explorer 35, 000 times.
Even larger vehicles like the redesigned Ford Explorer and the Honda Odyssey minivan are emphasizing improved fuel economy.
One example is the new Ford Explorer and its stablemate, the Mercury Mountaineer.
Some of the best names, such as the Ford Explorer , are utilitarian.
Indeed, sales of the Ford Explorer suffered only a small dip in August.
The 1991 Ford Explorer reminds us of the days, not so long ago, when gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles ruled the American road.
The changes should make the aging Highlander more attractive to buyers who've preferred the Ford Explorer and the Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Turbocharging is also making its way into larger vehicles, like the 2012 Ford Explorer, which gets an optional turbo engine.
When it was over, I joined her in the back seat of a Ford Explorer for part of the ride to Green Bay.
The US government will drop an investigation into the Ford Explorer requested by tyre maker Firestone over a series of fatal accidents involving the vehicle.
The new features will come standard issue on the 2011 Ford Taurus and Ford Explorer, and will eventually reach across both the Ford and Lincoln brands.
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That was supposed to help him train, but he also used it to buy his first truck, a Ford Explorer, and to finance his social life.
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In September, Ford Explorer sales were up 22%, Nissan Pathfinder sales were up 20%, Toyota 4Runner sales were up 13% and GMC Envoy sales were up 6%.
She was given a shiny black 2001 Ford Explorer Sport Trac (lease payments and fuel are gratis) and a territory of 14 Wal-Marts in central Illinois and Indiana.
Reilly describes what's happened over time to the Ford Explorer.
Licensing deals are sometimes a hit--as in the Caterpillar brand of Wolverine shoes (both are tough, reliable "tools") or the Eddie Bauer edition of the Ford Explorer (outdoor adventure).
So while Ford Explorer sales jumped from 12, 900 to 15, 700 from September 2005 to September 2006, a very healthy 22% jump, a year before, in September 2004, Ford sold 30, 400 Explorers.
Defective Firestone Wilderness AT tyres installed on previous generation Ford Explorers are believed to be the cause of 203 deaths and over 700 injuries as the result of crashes involving rollovers of Ford Explorer vehicles.
The Dodge Durango, Ford Explorer, Land Rover LR4 and the Jeep Grand Cherokee are built using a car-like unibody structure, but add a reinforced sub-frame and offer advanced traction management systems that give them added off-road and bad-weather prowess.
After enduring a much-publicised recall of 6.5 million Firestone tyres, which are thought to be linked to crashes of Ford Explorer models, Ford is taking no chances in losing market share in promoting its vehicles as both safe and tough.
The pattern of future settlements is driven by how courts interpret the facts in those cases like whether a unbelted driver going 80 miles per hour in a Ford Explorer is entitled to a vehicle that protects him from his own poor judgment.
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The reason, according to Global Insight's Lindland: People can switch from midsized, truck-based SUVs like the Ford Explorer, Chevrolet Trailblazer, Toyota 4Runner and Nissan Pathfinder into lighter, more fuel efficient so-called crossover vehicles like the Honda Pilot, Toyota Highlander and forthcoming GMC Acadia without losing much utility.
The reason, according to Global Insight's Lindland: People can switch from midsized, truck-based SUVs like the Ford Explorer, Chevrolet Trailblazer, Toyota 4Runner and Nissan Pathfinder into lighter, more fuel efficient so-called crossover vehicles like the Honda (nyse: HMC - news - people ) Pilot, Toyota Highlander and forthcoming GMC Acadia without losing much utility.
The Chevy Trailblazer and GMC Envoy are now competitive with Ford's Explorer, after years of inferiority.
After years of inferiority the Chevy Trailblazer and GMC Envoy are now competitive with Ford's Explorer.
He never backed down from his stance that the design of Ford's Explorer was a big part of the rollover accidents.
For Ford, the Explorer is down 25%, Expedition is down 27% and Excursion, the massive gas-guzzler nicknamed the Ford Valdez by environmentalists, is down 30%.
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