Ford is renewing his flagship model.

Ford reveals a first outline of his future star model: the Explorer.

Scheduled for early 2011, this fifth opus will attempt to revive the golden age of this model that long was the best selling SUV in the United States as well as one of the most distribute vehicles to the Uncle Sam lands.

Under the hood, the manufacturer to the blue oval should equip this new Explorer with a four cylinder petrol EcoBoost 2.0 when the current version just makes do with greedy V6 and V8.

Unlike his elders, this new Explorer will be based not on a platform of 4WD but on that of the touring car Taurus. It will play therefore more than ever the card of the crossover, including between the very square Flex and the sporting Edge, while adopting a style strongly adventurer. A good argument to succeed his come-back, after two generations that had not been turning heads.