The 2016 Ford Explorer has made its debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show on the occasion of the model’s 25th anniversary. The facelift brings a subtle evolutionary design change with restyled front & rear bumpers, tweaked headlights and a slightly modified front grille. The back of the car now boasts fresh taillights and a newly developed spoiler optimized to diminish drag. On the inside there are better materials combined with a modified center stack now featuring real buttons rather than the touch-sensitive controls installed in the pre-facelift model.
The 2016 Ford Explorer will be offered with a flagship Platinum variant adding LED headlights, dual-panel moonroof, silver skid plates and two-tone 20-inch rims. The cabin gets brushed aluminum accents, satin ash wood trim, perforated Nirvana leather upholstery and a leather-wrapped heated steering wheel that has wood inserts. Other goodies include a brushed aluminum “Ford” emblem installed on the steering wheel, along with a powerful 500-watt Sony sound system, digital instrument cluster and accent stitching.
Gone is the four-cylinder 2.0-liter EcoBoost engine as this has been replaced by a 2015 Mustang-sourced four-cylinder 2.3-liter EcoBoost producing at least 270 bhp (201 kW) and 300 lb-ft (406 Nm).
Sales of the 2016 Ford Explorer are slated to begin in the next summer.
Source: Ford
