Just wondering if we will be getting a specific section for this in Ford Models?

I'm starting to see the first reviews which are actually quite favourable: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/ford/explorer

It would seem worth consideration for anyone in the market for an electric SUV in the price range from £40-50k plus (which counts me out!😀).

Oh, you mean the ford id4. 

3 minutes ago, Eric Bloodaxe said:

electric SUV

Surely that's two things that should never be together in the same sentence 🤣

Or ford f150 lightening and pikes peak ford f150 lookalike with 1600hp. 

20 minutes ago, iantt said:

Oh, you mean the ford id4. 

Yep. Apparently it even still has the "haptic" touch pads on the steering wheel controls instead of proper buttons.

The biggest issues with the new explorer are:

No heated front screen. What the hell!!

The mobile contactless charger won’t charge a phone if it got a case on it. It’s useless. 

Apparently it comes with a subwoofer. Like hell it does. My kid makes more bass when he fills his nappy. It’s useless. 

13 hours ago, Bailey Newman said:

The biggest issues with the new explorer are:

No heated front screen. What the hell!!

The mobile contactless charger won’t charge a phone if it got a case on it. It’s useless. 

Apparently it comes with a subwoofer. Like hell it does. My kid makes more bass when he fills his nappy. It’s useless. 

And it's a VW

 

Spotted a full road test review today in Autocar - no doubt it'll be available online shortly. Model tested was "Extended range premium RWD" at £49,975 (as tested - £53,125 including extras: paint, heat pump, driver assistance pack).

 They gave it 3.5 out of 5.0, rating it slightly ahead of the donor ID 4. Comments were of the order of "good but not great" and "fails to convince as an everyday drivers car".

Not my sort of car anyway, but another comment was "inexplicably small boot" which I would expect  might put off many who are interested in this sort of thing.

With 282 bhp and 402 lb/ft it is, though, like many of these things, pretty quick off the mark (0-62: 6.1 secs).

 

Not really noticed the boot space. Will do next time I jump in one. We are doing around 10 a day at the moment to lease company's.  Steady start. 

2 hours ago, iantt said:

Not really noticed the boot space. Will do next time I jump in one. We are doing around 10 a day at the moment to lease company's. 

The figures quoted in the test were 470 litres seats up and 1422 down, which doesn't sound that small to me.

Any takers among private buyers, Ian?

The boot looks similar size to the Kuga, even the car looks no bigger than Kuga except for the bonnet area which then makes the car look longer. 

Good news is you got a opening for your skis. 😂

14 minutes ago, iantt said:

Good news is you got a opening for your skis. 😂

You'd think they'd go in the normal boot without needing the opening.........

25 minutes ago, iantt said:

The boot looks similar size to the Kuga, even the car looks no bigger than Kuga

Yes, the general dimensions look pretty Kuga-ish and (obviously) similar to the ID4. 

I got this vibe they were disappointed it doesn't drive like a Focus (why would it?) but it sounds as if it drives as well as similar vehicles and better than many, given that they were working from a donor floorpan rather than a clean sheet.

 

15 minutes ago, Eric Bloodaxe said:

Yes, the general dimensions look pretty Kuga-ish and (obviously) similar to the ID4. 

I got this vibe they were disappointed it doesn't drive like a Focus (why would it?) but it sounds as if it drives as well as similar vehicles and better than many, given that they were working from a donor floorpan rather than a clean sheet.

 

There's more than floorpan. More VW than ford by quite some margin. 

3 hours ago, iantt said:

There's more than floorpan. More VW than ford by quite some margin. 

Yes you're right, I'm not using the correct terminology there. It's the smaller VW bits that would put me off if I was looking at cars of that type, mainly the switchgear, particularly the "haptic" touch points instead of real buttons on the steering wheel and elsewhere.

I've experienced these on test drives of recent ICE VWs and they really are dire. Seems like VW have now put real buttons back in most of their models, maybe Ford will get the same eventually.

Still not as bad as the recent Tesla Model 3 facelift though from what I've seen:

"For this latest Model 3, the column stalks have been binned, with the indicators operated from a touchpad on one of the steering wheel spokes and the wipers activated via the infotainment screen."