Tick. Tick. Tick. That's the sound our Ford 4.0-liter, over-head valve (OHV) engine was making in our 1991 Ford Explorer after 250,000 miles. The Ford 4.0L V-6 engines, built in Germany, are found in ...

It looks tough but it's really a softie. Rightly or wrongly the Ford Explorer is much maligned, tarnished by being the vehicle that brought the mighty Ford Motor Company to its knees and hastened the ...

Explorer is the company’s best-selling model and the Firestone tire fiasco is the biggest catastrophe to befall a car company since the Audi “unintended acceleration” scare of the ’80s. One suspects ...