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The 2025 Ford Explorer was refreshed with new looks, additional tech features, and a $41,220 starting MSRP. Even better, it's already up for order, and the updated model will start reaching nationwide dealerships during the second quarter of the year.
Now in its sixth generation, the Ford Explorer nameplate has morphed time and again from the original compact SUV to a mid-size SUV and today's mid-size crossover SUV. It is also available with a bonanza of powertrains (including hybrid, PHEV, ST) and even features an unrelated all-electric compact version for the Old Continent. That's quite a chameleon, right?
The current sixth generation debuted in early 2019 at the North American International Auto Show and shares its CD6 underpinnings with the ritzier Lincoln Aviator. Five years later, it was only natural that Ford gave it a mid-cycle facelift, which arrives complete with a bigger grille, restyled headlights, and other fresh details. An even bigger revamp waits inside where the Blue Oval company actually reworked the dashboard placement to free more cabin space, and the 13.2-inch infotainment screen now sits higher.
Novelties include the all-new Ford Digital Experience interface instead of SYNC and the optional BlueCruise hands-free highway driving system. The powertrain options remain unchanged, though, and the trim choice is slimmer than ever – Active, ST-Line, ST, and Platinum. Of course, the coolest of the bunch is the Explorer ST, which makes the hulking three-row CUV look nimbler and act faster thanks to its 3.0-liter EcoBoost V6 engine featuring 400 hp and 415 lb-ft, plus RWD or optional AWD.
Interestingly, the Explorer ST comes with some of the biggest wheels on the series – 21-inch Magnetite-painted aluminum wheels, as opposed to 20-inch nickel-painted on Platinum and 20-inch Ebony machine-painted on ST-Line, or the smaller 18-inch Sparkle Silver-painted aluminum wheels on the Active grade. But what if that is still not enough?
No worries, the imaginative realm of digital car content creators has already taken note of Ford's Explorer ST introduction and come up with a solution. Nikita Chuicko, the virtual artist better known as kelsonik on social media, thinks now is the right time to make the new Explorer ST even sportier. As per tradition, he fits a much larger set of concave-style aftermarket wheels to the hulking Ford and also gives it a two-tone appearance with the simple hack of painting the roof black. So, what do you think?
Anyway, if the big American crossover SUV doesn't make the cut, may we remind you that this pixel master also remastered the recently facelifted Audi Q7, and the premium German crossover SUV is available in the second post below with a setoff Y-spoke black aftermarket wheels. Alternatively, if you feel that both Ford's Explorer ST and Audi's Q7 are too large for your family, the newly introduced two-row Mazda CX-70 also passed by, and the black example pictured third below even got a choice of two types of new wheels. So, which is your favorite?
The current sixth generation debuted in early 2019 at the North American International Auto Show and shares its CD6 underpinnings with the ritzier Lincoln Aviator. Five years later, it was only natural that Ford gave it a mid-cycle facelift, which arrives complete with a bigger grille, restyled headlights, and other fresh details. An even bigger revamp waits inside where the Blue Oval company actually reworked the dashboard placement to free more cabin space, and the 13.2-inch infotainment screen now sits higher.
Novelties include the all-new Ford Digital Experience interface instead of SYNC and the optional BlueCruise hands-free highway driving system. The powertrain options remain unchanged, though, and the trim choice is slimmer than ever – Active, ST-Line, ST, and Platinum. Of course, the coolest of the bunch is the Explorer ST, which makes the hulking three-row CUV look nimbler and act faster thanks to its 3.0-liter EcoBoost V6 engine featuring 400 hp and 415 lb-ft, plus RWD or optional AWD.
Interestingly, the Explorer ST comes with some of the biggest wheels on the series – 21-inch Magnetite-painted aluminum wheels, as opposed to 20-inch nickel-painted on Platinum and 20-inch Ebony machine-painted on ST-Line, or the smaller 18-inch Sparkle Silver-painted aluminum wheels on the Active grade. But what if that is still not enough?
No worries, the imaginative realm of digital car content creators has already taken note of Ford's Explorer ST introduction and come up with a solution. Nikita Chuicko, the virtual artist better known as kelsonik on social media, thinks now is the right time to make the new Explorer ST even sportier. As per tradition, he fits a much larger set of concave-style aftermarket wheels to the hulking Ford and also gives it a two-tone appearance with the simple hack of painting the roof black. So, what do you think?
Anyway, if the big American crossover SUV doesn't make the cut, may we remind you that this pixel master also remastered the recently facelifted Audi Q7, and the premium German crossover SUV is available in the second post below with a setoff Y-spoke black aftermarket wheels. Alternatively, if you feel that both Ford's Explorer ST and Audi's Q7 are too large for your family, the newly introduced two-row Mazda CX-70 also passed by, and the black example pictured third below even got a choice of two types of new wheels. So, which is your favorite?
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