The Explorer Sport is a different personality-very quick, taut, and faster than any V-8 Explorer of the past it's a crossover extension of the Taurus SHO, essentially. The 3.5-liter V-6 that's offered through most of the lineup is plenty quick, while the front-wheel-drive Explorer with an EcoBoost four is best kept for those who seldom if ever take advantage of this vehicles spacious seating. Performance is buttoned-down, almost to sport-wagon standards, with predictable, benign handling and available all-wheel drive. Inside it does its best impression of a Taurus sedan in look and feel, albeit a little more upright. In style, the Explorer doesn't turn away too abruptly from the past. Simply put, for almost everything a family would throw at the 2014 Ford Explorer, it does it better than before-and it does what the wide majority of us need to do in a crossover. And it still retains some mud-running bona fides too-even if they probably were only ever weekend ambitions for most of their suburban owners. The Explorer offers plenty of room for lots of people, or lots of stuff, and it does it much more efficiently than it did in previous generations based on trucks. That might not be the right stuff if you need to cross the Rubicon it's just right for all-weather family transit. The original high-volume SUV for Ford has evolved, along with American family needs, and today the Explorer share much of its underpinnings with Ford's big sedans, as well as the Ford Flex large wagon. nameplates and a strong seller among those who need seven seats and a lot of interior volume. The 2014 Ford Explorer, now in its fourth year as a large crossover utility vehicle, continues to be both one of the best-known U.S.
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