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Time now for this hour's car review.
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Had the 2025 Ford Explorer.
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It's available in the Active, the ST line, the Platinum and the ST.
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I had the ST four-wheel drive.
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This is a midsize SUV.
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It is no longer body on frame.
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When I was doing the research I thought what?
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When did that happen?
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It's now a unibody three rows of seating with six seats inside.
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It was all new in 2020.
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It does get a facelift this year all new for 2025.
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Exterior features sharp looking restyled grille and lighting up front.
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St is the sportiest of the four trim levels Black plastic wheel.
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Well, opening moldings in that Forward-raked C-pillar gives the SUV a sportier appearance than most others in this class.
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New rear lighting and quad exhaust enhances the overall look.
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What I liked about it?
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The modern yet conservative styling.
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This is a Ford and you can tell it's a Ford.
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I think you'll like it.
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What could use improvement?
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In my mind, nothing.
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Interior highlights All.
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New interior has enhanced the usability in my mind.
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Dash has two screens now one for instruments, one for the infotainment system with the new Google-based system running it.
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Comfortable, supportive seating with awesome new coverings, dual phone holders above the center console on the dash.
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That was unique and I really did like that.
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One of them was the charger and the other one is the holder.
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Mama's got.
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Just I want to hold my own phone, Okay.
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Well, if you want to put it down, there's a place for you.
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What I liked about it the optional 13.2-inch infotainment screen.
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Get it, I'll tell you that it's huge.
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It's Tesla-like inside Wow Secret compartment in the in-floor cargo area so you can hide stuff.
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And I know, Jeff, you've got lots of stuff you need to hide.
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I've got a lot of skilletons I need to hide.
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Three-liter EcoBoost V6.
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The base is 300 horsepower, ecoboost 4.
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This one has 400 horsepower, 415 pound-feet of torque, 10-speed automatic transmission.
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It'll tow up to 5,600 pounds.
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18 miles per gallon, city, 24 on the highway, for a combined of 20.
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I got 21.1 miles per gallon over 382.3 miles.
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Plenty of power for towing and people riding.
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Handling well.
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I liked its ruggedness.
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I like the rugged feel of this.
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It isn't a wallowy suv.
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Base trim price 57.1.
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I had a pre-production model, so the approximate test price is about sixty thousand dollars.
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Base model price 39 755 is what you can get into one for.
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Competitors include the acura rdx 44 7, the mazda cx 90 for 37 845 and the kia telluride for 38 000.
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That's because they don't have one this year.
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It's priced that I could find Interesting and that is my review of the 2025 Ford Explorer.
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Thank you very much, you're welcome.
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We'll be right back Time.
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Now for this hour's car review.
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Mr Mars has the Land Rover Defender.
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How was it, mike?
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I have to tell you I was pleasantly surprised after a little while.
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It's got a lot of.
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English touches to it and I'll try and point them out as we kind of go through this.
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This is definitely catered to the English market, but they're sending them into the US.
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So it's a 2024 Land Rover Defender 110.
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Now, actual 17 models of this vehicle.
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There's five different trims it's an SSE, x-dynamic, sex and a V8 engine.
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Now we had the Defender 110.
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And so this is actually a off-road luxury SUV, if you want to go that away with it.
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And the difference between the difference on the 110, the Defender 90 is a two-door, the 110 is the four-door that we're driving and then the 130 is an extended four-door, an extended 110.
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You're going to find it comes with the LED lighting, which has got the automatic high beams on it, rain-sensing front and rear wipers on it, got heated power-folding side mirrors with approach lights on them, had the black roof rails with a matching black trim on this particular vehicle Panoramic roof.
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You want to get outside, you're going to get off road, you want to see everything and we're rolling on some optional 20 inch dark gray wheels.
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Now you get inside, you're going to find some grain leather seating, because this is a luxury off-road suv, particularly in the x dynamic, specific interior with details that are specific to that vehicle.
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We had the heated and vented front seats.
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We had the side view uh cameras that were set off into the mirrors, so it makes it a lot easier whenever you're getting ready to change lanes.
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You can see a whole lot better that's cool the rear seat is a 40, 20, 40 that will fold down and, uh, it's got some dual purpose controls in it that were kind of awkward to figure out.
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For example, there's not a cruise control, there is a speed limiter and you know, speed limiter button one time and it automatically limits to what the GPS says the speed limit is.
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If it's 60 you do, 60 is the max, it'll let you go.
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It's 75, do center or you can hit it again and do a manual override and you can limit the speed to whatever you want.
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But it's not.
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They don't call it a cruise control and there's several different functions within the car that are like that, that are kind of specific, and you can figure them out pretty easy.
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We also had a Meridian 400-watt premium audio system that was really really nice on the inside of that vehicle.
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A lot of Jimmy Buffett going on.
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Now there's different engines for each different trim level.
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We had the 3.0-liter inline, six-line, six cylinder with 395 horsepower, 408 pound-feet of torque.
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It's backed by an eight-speed automatic transmission.
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Now properly equipped, this vehicle will tow 8200 pounds.
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It does weigh 5 000 pounds on its own, so it's it's a pretty good size heavy vehicle so it can carry that load.
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Now the epa says you should be looking for 17 miles to the gallon in the city out on the highway, 20 combined for the 18.
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Now, for the week I had it, I drove it 257.7 miles and I got 16.5 across that spectrum of highway and in-town driving.
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Okay, now I will say it does ride and drive like a body on frame suv.
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It's that feeling that it's a little more solid than a unibody.
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It's stiffer.
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We also had the air suspension so we could adjust the height on it, and it's got an off-road-specific speed limiter that if you're in the off-road you get into the four-wheel drive, you can actually set it to basically what I would call a crawl.
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I think on most American vehicles they call it a crawl, like a low gear.
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Like a low gear, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So a base model of a Defender that is the 90.
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And it starts at $57,875.
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Now the base trim price for the Defender X-Dynamic SE that we were driving is $72,000.
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We had a few other things on.
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It had an MSRP of $81,923.
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Now if you're looking for something to compare it to, you might look at the LX600 from Lexus.
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It's a little pricier $92,565.
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A Ford Bronco, depending on which one you want to get into, will run you $50,000 to $60,000 to start, and a Jeep Grand Cherokee, which is kind of a luxury vehicle as well, off-road, for $60,000.
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Wow.
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So overall, if you're looking for something a little different that's got a reputation for being heavy-duty in the off-road world, the Land Rover Defender might be the ticket you're looking for.
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Could be hey, today's In World Time Club.
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We'll be right back, take care.
