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The Ford Explorer is a full-size sport utility vehicle produced by the American manufacturer Ford since 1990, based since 2010 on a crossover platform.

The Ford Explorer became one of the most popular sport utility vehicles on the road.

The model years 1991 through 2010 were traditional body-on-frame, mid-size SUVs.

For the 2011 model year, Ford moved the Explorer to a more modern unibody, full-size crossover SUV platform, the same Volvo-derived platform the Ford Flex and Ford Taurus use although with significantly greater ground clearance.

It is slotted between the traditional body-on-frame, full-size Ford Expedition and the mid-size CUV(Crossover Utility Vehicle) Ford Edge.

Although outwardly similar, the fifth generation Explorer, Ford Edge and Ford Escape do not share platforms.

The fifth generation Explorer does, however, share platforms with the Ford Flex and Lincoln MKT.

The Lincoln Aviator is a mid-size luxury sport-utility vehicle (SUV) that was sold by the Lincoln division of Ford Motor Company from model years 2003 to 2005 in North America.

A rebadged variant of the Mercury Mountaineer and Ford Explorer four-door SUVs, the Aviator was the shortest Lincoln vehicle ever sold (at its debut).

Rock crawling is an extreme form of off road driving using vehicles anywhere from stock to highly modified to overcome obstacles.

In rock crawling, drivers drive highly modified four-wheel-drive vehicles such as trucks, Jeeps, and "buggies" over very harsh terrain.

Driving locations include boulders, mountain foothills, rock piles, mountain trails, etc.

EcoBoost is a family of turbocharged, direct-injection gasoline engines produced by the Ford Motor Company and co-developed by German company (German Wikipedia article).

The Ford Ranger is a compact pickup truck that was manufactured and marketed by Ford Motor Company from 1983 to 2012 model years for North America; from 1997 to 2011, a version was also manufactured and sold in South America.

Introduced to replace the Ford Courier produced in Japan by Mazda, the Ranger was produced in two distinct generations.

While introduced a year after the Chevrolet S-10, the Ranger would go on to become the best-selling compact truck in the United States from 1987 to 2004.