Ford stopped making every type of car except for trucks, SUVs, and one sports car, so one might expect the Ford Explorer reliability to be through the roof. If all the brand’s resources are funneled to a few cars, then they should be of the utmost quality, right? Well, in this article we discuss Explorer generations, and find out which one really is the most reliable. One thing to note before we get into it, though: every Explorer generation has some kind of serious problem, and most of them have to do with their transmissions. Of the six Ford Explorer generations, the first handful were built on truck frames with rugged capability in mind, but were they better than the family SUVs we have today?
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