Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn unveiled the 2025 Explorer, which features a redesigned interior, all-new Ford digital technology, and available BlueCruise hands-free highway driving.
The new 2025 Explorer lineup includes the Active edition, the ST lineup of two high-performance Explorer SUVs, and its top-of-the-line Platinum edition.
The Explorer Active edition is the vehicle’s baseline trim level. It comes with a 2.3-liter EcoBoost engine and standard rear-wheel drive, with a four-wheel-drive option. It has features such as heated steering wheels and LED fog lamps.
The Platinum edition features a 2.3-liter EcoBoost engine as standard. A 400-horsepower 2.0-liter EcoBoost engine is optional. Rear-wheel drive is standard and there is a four-wheel drive option available. It also comes with premium leather and Platinum badging on the front-row seats.
The ST lineup includes a 2.3-liter EcoBoost edition with rear-wheel standard and four-wheel-drive available. There also is a 400-horsepower edition with a 3.0-liter EcoBoost engine. It comes with standard rear-wheel as well as a four-wheel-drive option. The ST was engineered by Ford Performance to provide 415-pound-foot of torque.
The 2025 Explorer was designed to offer a more refined cabin that features new color, texture, and material choices.
“For nearly 35 years, families have chosen the Ford Explorer, making it America’s all-time best-selling SUV,” says said Andrew Frick, president of Ford Blue. “We have refined almost every part of the new Explorer – focusing on a redesigned interior, additional technology like BlueCruise hands-free highway driving, and special editions like the 400 horsepower Explorer ST. It’s the right combination of delivering what the next generation of customers want and love in a large SUV.”
The 2025 Explorer features:
- Redesigned interior with softer touchpoints and premium materials.
- Available Ford BlueCruise for hands-free highway driving for ST-Line, ST, and Platinum buyers.
- The Ford Digital Experience infotainment system, which enables drivers to access their favorite apps and services from Google and Amazon as well as with Apple CarPlay powered by iPhone and Android Auto through other compatible devices.
The design of the dashboard has been pushed forward with the goal of giving front-row passengers a more open and spacious cabin. An integrated tray below the touchscreen houses an available wireless phone charging pad and there are USB connections to charge mobile devices in all three rows.
“The new Explorer starts with a great foundation,” says Kelley Clark, chief engineer for the Explorer. “Customers told us they love the way it drives and the choice of rear-wheel and all-wheel drive. So, we focused on improving other areas including redesigning the interior with new materials, textures, and colors to make sitting inside Explorer as enjoyable as driving one.”
The Ford Digital Experience platform is designed to enable more apps and services in the future and help make the vehicle better over time thanks to over-the-air software update capability, available for the first time to Explorer owners.
The automaker offers 5G wireless technology in the new Explorer with the Ford Premium Connectivity plan. Customers also have the option to activate a Wi-Fi hot spot that gives Internet access to up to 10 mobile devices.
In other Ford news, the company’s EV customers now will have access to Tesla superchargers across the U.S. and Canada beginning this spring. Jim Farley, president and CEO of Ford, says eligible Ford EV customers will soon be able to reserve a complimentary Fast Charging Adapter.
February is Ford Truck Month. The Music Audience Exchange (MAX) has been part of this celebration and will be including 14 Ford Music and Música Ford artists in Ford Truck Month celebrations across the country.
Ford Music and Música Ford (the Spanish language arm of the program) have been featuring artists for nearly a decade. Past artists include Carla Morrison, Carly Pearce, Eslabon Armado, Thomas Rhett, La Energía Norteña, Marc Broussard, Ana Tijoux, Mayday Parade, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Pat Green, Chiquis, PJ Morton, Gaby Moreno, Priscilla Block, The Delta Saints, Willie Jones, Clint Black, and more than 100 additional artists.
The Ford Music program starts with finding the right artist partner to meet each campaign’s specific needs. Using the MAX artist matching engine and a team of experts, MAX considers audience fit, key audience attributes, campaign goals, and cultural relevance to identify the ideal artist partner for each campaign.
The program features a variety of artists whose audiences mirror Ford’s target and often includes sweepstakes where fans can win tickets to live concerts, VIP meet and greet experiences, and autographed merch from their favorite artists.
Over the years, MAX has worked with Ford to find new ways to engage, interact, and drive leads with their target audience by merging the digital and physical worlds. Ford Music and Música Ford campaigns reach music fans in the places they love to spend time, whether that’s on social media, streaming audio, video platforms, or even at in-person events and experiences.
This year’s Ford Truck Month partnerships will feature three artists, identified by MAX as the ideal partners to help Ford connect with diverse audiences through relatable, culturally relevant content centered around the artists, their musical journeys, and their genuine love for the Ford brand.
The artists will be named at a later date.
