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Since the end of last year, it has been revealed that Ford will replace the medium and large SUV explorers, and at the same time, the vehicle will also be made in China, which will make the price of the car significantly lower. Recently, there has been new news about the situation of Ford explorers. According to a set of exposed pictures, the new car after delivery in the country will go on sale at 258000.

It is understood that the pre-price information exposed by the new Changan Ford explorers shows that the new car has launched a total of 9 configuration models, with a pre-price range of 28.58-384800 yuan, which is also greatly reduced compared with imported models. The price is also relatively low compared with the same level of models. According to previous news, the new car will go on sale within June.

According to the official picture released by the new car, the new car abandoned the previous Ford design language and adopted the latest design, with a hexagonal front grille and connected to the headlight set. The side continues the burly shape of Fangzheng, which strengthens the hard style. According to previous application information, domestic explorers offer eight front grille designs, including the ordinary version, the ST-Line version and the ST version.

The taillight of the new car adopts the C shape of vertical design, and the model adopts the exposed exhaust of bilateral double layout. In the body size part, the length, width and height of the new car are 5075*2004/2020*1778mm and the wheelbase is 3025mm, which is larger than the size of SAIC Volkswagen Tuang and Buick Anke. The car is based on Ford's brand-new CD6 rear-drive platform, which is the product of the soon-to-be-made Lincoln flier.

Changan Ford's new explorer interior has been optimized and changed on the basis of the overseas version, and the biggest highlight is that the central control design has changed to a larger size than the overseas version, reaching a 12.3-inch full liquid crystal instrument and a 12.8-inch central control screen. and focus most of the control on the central control screen.

In terms of power, the new car is equipped with a 2.3T turbocharged engine, model CAF488WQGR, with a maximum power of 276hp and is expected to match a 10-speed hand-mounted gearbox and a four-wheel drive system.

In fact, from the performance of the Ford brand in China in recent years, it is obviously in a downward trend, which has declined for three consecutive years compared with the same period last year. To this end, Changan Ford has also paid more and more attention to the Chinese market, rapidly launching a number of SUV models in the past year, including the present. This domestic explorer hopes to recapture the market in China.

From the current pre-price of suspected Changan Ford explorers, it also seems to be targeted. From the starting price of 285800, it is 10, 000 less than the guidance price of Volkswagen Tuang, which is currently the best-selling Volkswagen in the medium and large SUV market, and less than the Buick Anke flag of the medium and large SUV recently listed, so China, which relies on explorers to achieve listing plus concessions, will also have a certain degree of competitiveness.

Even though Ford has accelerated the market layout for the domestic SUV market, the current sales performance of Ford models is only general, even if they are sold on the same platform of new and old models. However, compared with the previous, there is still a small growth, of which the new Ford Ruiji Escape has become the largest contributor.

According to the data, Changan Ford released the latest sales figures, which sold 18429 units a month in April 2020, an increase of 8 per cent over the same period last year. This is also the first time in three years that Changan Ford's monthly sales are growing year-on-year.

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