2010 Ford Explorer, the last year of the Body-on-Frame models before they switched to Unibody. It was my first car passed down to me from my mom before I decided to trade it in for something with better mileage. I regret this decision everyday. I underestimated how many times I was going to want to pack 6 other people…

Fuck this car. Fuck everything about it. This car couldn’t make it up a lightly snow-dusted hill to get to our house. This cars inability to make it up the hill meant that we had to have someone else in our 3-week old ML350 come pick up people from the van and drop them off at home. On the last trip home, someone…

I think I was 9 in our 4-year-old 2002 Explorer. My driveway was long, straight, and on a dead end. My mom put me in the drivers seat and told me to keep my foot on the brake and reverse down the driveway. After that, it progressed to going back up the driveway, then down the street a bit, then a little around our…

The 2.5 should’ve been in this car from the start. The Forester weighs 200+ pounds more and gets the same city MPG and 1 less highway MPG. I have a hard time believing putting the 2.5 in the lighter Crosstrek will have a noticeable negative effect in fuel economy.

2010 Ford Explorer. The last year before Ford turned it into a unibody crossover. It’s the car I learned to drive on, took my road test in, and had many “firsts” in. Traded it for a ‘14 Forester and it’s not the same. At all. I didn’t expect it to be, but also I didn’t expect to miss my Explorer so much. Yes I get…

Current high school senior here: I live in Westchester County, 20 miles north of NYC, my town being one of the wealthier ones. Hence, the parking lot consists of mostly this:

My dad and I have a mutual love of cars but he’s a bit of a snob and thinks that only European cars can be nice. My mom, however, doesn’t care. Up until recently, she drove a 6 year old Explorer in a town where moms were driving GL450's Q7's, and X5's. She loved that car and how it “drives like a truck.” We only got…

There wouldn’t really be room on either side of the car to get in but there’s one advantage a falcon door gives. Since they open up, the hypothetical 2 feet between the Model X and another car in a normal parking lot isn’t taken up by 8-12 inches of door. When the doors swing up, you have that full 2 feet to get…