Test Drive Ford Explorer since 2010 SUV

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The Ford Explorer SUV on generation to generation is becoming more and more larger. Owners of previous models with longing look towards more massive Ford Explorer V8 2003, the Face of which has become a muzzle of a strong but domestic animal. The problem is different: Ford Explorer 2006 is already announced, and it is even more powerful and even more animalistic, and now the owners of this V8, like this, have to think, was I not too early to spend money? Deciding to see, with what we part, we took on testing V8 as a leaving nature. To formulate at least a few thoughts about what we are waiting for from the successor.
Autumn - exactly the same time travel along the forest and field roads, like the summer, only complicated by the rains and other bad weather. This is where Explorer came in handy. We immediately threw an aluminum case in the body with Toshiba laptop with Centrino technology and connected through the sky - Link - to the global network, so that, God forbid, do not stay in the dark forest without the Internet. The trunk with the key does not open, and is open, and, like a classic Fords SUV, only the upper half of the trunk doors are moving. Ford Explorer and iron is severe, and paint, and plastic. Everything is done so that the person in the mountains and forests is not too conceived, he scratches plastic with a bottle of Coca-Cola or not. On the American essence of the car, there is also a completely cinematic lever of switching an automatic box on the steering column. It is impossible to get used to this, it can only be remembered.
Good! 4.6 liter engine must shoot. Well, okay, does not shoot, but rather powerfully rushes. Actually, no one promised you X5 in a sheepskin skue. But what is going on the car on the track, it must be seen. It is enough to promote the engine, and at some point you can simply remove the leg from the gas: SUV is rushing itself in itself and it is still like a mountain or under the mountain. By the way about the mountain. Simple design of this SUV compared to complex modern devices, equipped with a movement control systems for a slope (LR D3, for example), thoughts on the Kalashnikov machine. That is, we hope that his infertility will be wrapped at at least reliability. Despite the volume, the fuel consumption is truly economical - 12 liters per 100 km along the highway. That is, the trip to the town of Tuchkovo from Moscow does not turn into one end trip, and on the contrary, it's right - I want to go on and on. Just go like Telma and Louise.
Another cultural surveillance: if the frequency of the FM station of the Echo of Moscow is packed right away at Nicolina Mountain on the road sedan, then on Explorer you hear the speech therapy problems of it leading almost to Sonino. But the whole thing in a magic non-telescopic antenna, which in combat copes even with small branches in the forest.
About the forest separately. It is thanks to Ford Explorer that we were able to drive around the switched tracks along Moscow river. Residents of the surrounding villages with Tuchkovo villages, or rather, the inhabitants of immodest cottages, which lined up 10-20 meters from the water intake, even those terrible roads that there are regularly. They do not need extra eyes and ears. Oleg Mitvol - Buy Explorer and go to the people! The car adequately overcomes the obstacles of fighters with an ecology near Moscow. And all because when the Off-Road lovers are trying to draw up lists of parcktails, Ford Explorer is missing there by definition. Enough ascetic appearance and comfortable ride are combined with an adult approach to off-road life. And no compromises in the form of the Viscumpta.
This machine has a stock by 7 passengers. It is enough to look into the trunk to understand what the chairs are set here as an option.
Here is such a leaving beauty.

Igor Maltsev text, photo Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant

Ford Explorer V8.
 
Engine gasoline V8.
Working volume (cube cm) 4601
Power (hp at rpm.) 239 at 4750
Corner full
5-speed automatic gearbox
Maximum speed (km / h) 160
Acceleration up to 100 km / h (sec.) 8.6
Expenses (22.07 - 22.08, mileage - 1000 km)
Washing - 600.
Gasoline - 750 rubles (one refueling)
 

A source: "Autopilot"