Live Photos of 2011 Ford Explorer Limited

I was in Salt Lake City this week covering the Outdoor Retailer for another blog, and had the opportunity to take a closer look at the new Ford Explorer. Plenty of Ford staff were on hand and were all too eager to talk about their new baby.

Responding to criticism in the media, in articles like this one, Explorer marketing manager Craig Patterson defended the new Explorer’s hardware: “Jeep Grand Cherokee [is a] unibody, always has been. That’s a prototypical SUV. Range Rover: unibody, hardly a more capable truck out there. So it’s not so much the platform as what you do with it to make it capable. It starts as the same platform as the Taurus or the MKS or the Flex, but then you do enough things to it–widen it, reinforce it, put the terrain management system in–to give it the capability of an SUV.”

For full information on the 2011 Explorer, take a look at our original post from when it launched. Otherwise, just enjoy a few pictures of it all dressed up in red.