First Drive: The 2011 Ford Explorer gets muddy, dirty, and domesticated

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The American SUV is back.

First came the all new redesigned Jeep Grand Cherokee, and now the 2011 Ford Explorer has also been completely redesigned to make it more fuel efficient, comfortable, and much more civilized.

Click HERE to check out a off road video review of 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee.

But unlike the old Explorer the new 2011 model is now based on a car-like chassis instead of a truck like body on frame design.

So the question that you might be asking is just how off-road worthy is the new Explorer?

Ford let us test drive the 2011 Explorer at their Michigan Proving Grounds with one small but important caveat. We could take the car on the road and bash it off road, but we can't provide any driving impressions until the 2011 Explorer is official launched in December…but that doesn't mean we can't show you how it drives.

 

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