"Amoore100" (amoore100)
11/18/2015 at 22:09 • Filed to: Generation Gap, Ford Explorer
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"Amoore100" (amoore100)
11/18/2015 at 22:09 • Filed to: Generation Gap, Ford Explorer | 2
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Welcome to Generation Gap where we ask you about your favorite generation of a certain multi-generational car nameplate. Then, explain why your choice is right to the rest of us uneducated folks.
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Last week’s discussion of the Chevy El Camino led me, of course, to think of the Ford Ranchero, the El Camino’s competitor that achieved far less market popularity. However, instead of a car turned into a truck, it was a truck turned into a car that spelled success for Ford in the early nineties and 2000s...the Ford Explorer! In recent years it has become a bit of a softer crossover, but which of its many iterations do you prefer the most?
The options:
First Generation [1991 - 1994]
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Second Generation [1995 - 2001]
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Third Generation [2002 - 2005]
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Fourth Generation [2006 - 2010]
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Fifth Generation [2011 - Present] and facelift
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Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
> Amoore100
11/18/2015 at 22:21 |
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The second gen explorer actually was refreshed in 1998 and again slightly more in 1999
1995-1997:
1998:
1999-2001:
In 1998 they changed the rear hatch and in 1999 they changed the front bumper
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Amoore100
> Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
11/18/2015 at 22:24 |
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Ah, I see that and knew there was some sort of differentiation in the second generation...thanks for bringing it up! I would never have remembered myself...
Speed
> Amoore100
11/18/2015 at 22:32 |
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Got to go with the first gen, BUT the second gen did have the GT40P (equivilant to Cobra) top end on their 5.0 V8s and that makes them perfect donors for a Ford project.
RallyWrench
> Amoore100
11/18/2015 at 22:33 |
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While I prefer the blocky style of the first generation, I pick the second based on many good experiences with and a long life lived by a good friend’s 2000 XLT.
Baeromez
> Amoore100
11/18/2015 at 22:34 |
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My favorite would have to be the 2nd gen; preferably in 3-door, ‘Explorer Sport’ guise, with the 5.0 and 2wd.
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Amoore100
> RallyWrench
11/18/2015 at 22:35 |
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Yeah, we have someone who has long been a family friend who has a two door stick shift first gen plastidipped in matte black....always a trusty steed, hauls his construction materials in it everywhere, and I have fond memories of balancing many a physics project ontop of its home-made roofrack...Explorers seem to be one of those cars that everyone has to have one in their lives somewhere...
Tohru
> Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
11/18/2015 at 22:36 |
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Naturally Stranger Danger Denver would be the Explorer expert.
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Amoore100
> Speed
11/18/2015 at 22:36 |
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Can’t forget the Saleen Explorers either!
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Amoore100
> Baeromez
11/18/2015 at 22:37 |
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A bit like this?
I have no idea, just playing with Google...
Your boy, BJR
> Amoore100
11/18/2015 at 22:38 |
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My grandfather had a purple 1992 Exploder Eddie Bauer. He replaced it with a purple 2001 Mountaineer.
I liek puwple.
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Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
> Tohru
11/18/2015 at 22:38 |
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Well the explorer and the ranger are basically the same thing. UGHH, I hate that Ive become a ford guy
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Speed
> Amoore100
11/18/2015 at 22:40 |
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So damm right! I forgot about those bad boys. ‘90s Saleens are the best in all their monochromatic beauty. I’d feed babies to gators for an all white S351 Mustang.
lunr
> Amoore100
11/18/2015 at 22:41 |
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Everyone in the metro area of my city has the fifth generation - even the local police and fire departments. So many of them it’s like they're breeding. It's the new soccer mom vehicle of choice.
And for all that is holy, rarely do they use their turn signals even though I believe these come with the 3-blink feature.
The local BMW drivers use their signals more often.
HammerheadFistpunch
> Amoore100
11/18/2015 at 22:41 |
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On the automotive consumer review website CarComplaints.com , the 2002 Ford Explorer is ranked as the “Worst Vehicle on Record”, largely due to widespread transmission failure at under 100,000 miles of drive time. It is trailed by the 2004 model at #3, the 2003 at #6 and the 2005 at #18. [16] [17]
Im going to not vote gen 3
boxrocket
> Amoore100
11/18/2015 at 22:52 |
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Urban Concept, which arguably paved the way for the ultimate Explorer, the Lincoln Aviator (same mirrors).
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Amoore100
> HammerheadFistpunch
11/18/2015 at 22:52 |
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Good idea. That and it’s kind of ugly compared to some of the others...
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Amoore100
> lunr
11/18/2015 at 22:53 |
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What a place you must live in...here they’re only seen as rental cars, with X5s and MLs as the mommy SUVs of choice...not that they use their blinkers either, come to think of it...
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Amoore100
> Speed
11/18/2015 at 22:56 |
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Only proper way to have an SN95.
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Amoore100
> boxrocket
11/18/2015 at 22:57 |
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Right, I forgot about that thing...so much better looking than the actual 3rd gen IMO, but the mirrors seem kind of out of place on the Aviator...
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boxrocket
> Amoore100
11/18/2015 at 22:58 |
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They do look a little odd, but damn are they useful, especially in the age before cameras and sensors every two feet of body work.
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Amoore100
> Your boy, BJR
11/18/2015 at 22:59 |
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I like purple too.
(Yes it’s off topic, but it’s purple )
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lunr
> Amoore100
11/18/2015 at 23:00 |
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Haha! Yeah, I’m in a more mortgaged-middle-class area of your white, middle-manager-type, white collar professionals. I don’t see many X5s, and very few X3s. Usually it’s SUVs for the wife and $50k luxury Ford pickups for the husband.
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Amoore100
> lunr
11/18/2015 at 23:04 |
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Ah...here in the Bay Area all the wives have big German SUVs or Teslas while the husbands get mainly Telsas...on the way to school, which is about a mile and a half from home, I can regularly see more than four different Teslas at a time; it is unfortunate how much of a status symbol they are because as with most other luxury brands, they use it as an excuse to drive poorly...
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lunr
> Amoore100
11/18/2015 at 23:14 |
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I can see that. West Michigan is mid-western enough to still be give-me-all-the-awd-SUVs-cause-snow and very domestic brand heavy. Can’t even buy a Tesla here unless you order online.
The soccer moms (and dads) in the Explorers, and the Sequoias, the Yukons, the Denali’s scare the crap out of me. Always on my bumper in traffic and always barely within the lines in a normal spot cause they can’t park such a large vehicle properly. My passenger door and its two dents are a testament to over-size soccer mom SUVs at the local daycare.
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Speed
> Amoore100
11/19/2015 at 00:18 |
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Hnnnnnnnnng!
I’m a big SN95 fan as it is, but cars like the S351 and ‘95 R top my all time list. My first car was a red ‘96 V6 and my second was a white ‘95 GT. 5.0! I have a ‘98 Z28 now and although it’s world’s faster, I miss having a Mustang.
Van Man, rocks the Man Van
> Amoore100
11/19/2015 at 07:39 |
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3rd gen all the freaking way. That thing could be sold as a new car and no one would it. I still stare at them whenever I see one. Such a handsome truck.
norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
> Amoore100
11/19/2015 at 15:27 |
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I vote 3rd Gen in honour of my fathers 2nd Gen Mercury Mountaineer. Which was basically a 3rd Gen Explorer.
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norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
> HammerheadFistpunch
11/19/2015 at 15:28 |
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Strange, my dad’s 2004 Mercury has done pretty well for itself after 130K miles.