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The 2022 Ford Explorer ST will get a rear-wheel-drive option, the automaker confirmed Friday in a press release. It's one of a handful of changes to the three-row mid-size SUV for the new model year.

The 2025 Ford Explorer helped start the SUV craze that’s still going and has adapted to the competition with refinement and big power. (WTOP/Mike Parris) The biggest seller in the midsize SUV class ...

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Ford may have started the transition of its ST sub brand with the Edge ST, but the 2020 Ford Explorer ST completes that transition from spunky hot hatches to performance crossovers. The 2019 model ...

The redesigned 2020 Ford Explorer has a bit of a split personality, as evidenced by the two new versions that were introduced for the new model year: the Hybrid and the ST. Our post from earlier this ...

The gatekeepers at the Ford Motor Company have graciously decided to lower the barrier of entry to performance-oriented 2021 Explorer ST. Dubbed the Ford Explorer Enthusiast ST, the new trim delivers ...

The Ford Explorer is redone inside and out for 2020. This is the sixth generation of Ford's incredibly popular SUV, and it’s no ho-hum sequel: The Explorer returns to a rear-drive platform, this time ...

Rumor emerged last week that next year’s Ford Explorer ST would get standard rear-wheel drive instead of all-wheel drive. The rumor was true, so now you can have all 400 horsepower and 415 pound-feet ...

Ford is expanding its 2020 Explorer lineup at both ends, with the introduction of a performance ST model at one extreme and the addition of a hybrid at the other—two distinct expressions of ...

When Ford announced it was giving up on cars not named Mustang in the U.S., its sporty four-doors like the Fiesta ST and Focus ST were done. Instead, it has been busy adding high performance SUVs to ...

While the 2020 Ford Explorer launched ahead of the Detroit auto show, the folks at Ford kept two of the Explorer’s variants up its sleeve for the show. Today Ford pulled the sheets back on the 400-hp ...