2026 Ford Explorer Tremor Review - 1 MAJOR FLAW!

0:00 I'm Yuri.

0:00 I'm Jacob.

0:01 And we're going for a drive.

0:05 2026 Ford Explorer.

0:06 Tremor without launch control.

0:08 Big motor.

0:13 That's freaking good, man.

0:17 Those are really good.

0:18 Horsepower and torque.

0:19 400 horsepower, 415 pound- feet of torque from a 3 L EcoBoost V6.

0:25 This is our first the first Tremor Explorer.

0:29 Yes.

0:28 Pretty.

0:29 I like Tremor.

0:29 Tremor is cool.

0:30 Tremor is good branding.

0:31 This actually didn't exist before cuz it was a Timberline.

0:34 Timber line.

0:34 And then you couldn't get it with the fast motor.

0:36 Now you can get it with the fast motor and the slow motor.

0:39 Yes.

0:39 Thankfully, we have the fast motor cuz this thing actually rips.

0:45 Way way faster than it needs to be.

0:47 It's so torquy.

0:48 And then inside here, we look we got we got normal screen.

0:51 I was scared this was going to be like the edition.

0:54 Yeah.

0:55 Yeah.

0:55 Yeah.

0:56 because I think the uh Lincoln Nautilus or whatever is this size

1:01 has the bad screen

1:02 with even more screen,

1:04 but thankfully this still has normal screen.

1:06 Then we got orange stitching.

1:08 We got two captain chairs which I got my baby seats

1:10 in and then it's the row at the back which I fit in.

1:12 So it's like almost a cheater three- but kind of practical.

1:15 No, spoiler alert.

1:16 Ford nearly did not screw up a single thing on this vehicle.

1:19 It's so good.

1:20 I know.

1:20 Okay, little rip through cliche corner with off-road tires.

1:23 much rather have the Terrain Contact at.

1:25 Yeah, that would be the Continental recommended tire,

1:27 but you can definitely feel how rearwheel biased this all-wheel drive system is.

1:31 Yeah, I hear the traction control clicking.

1:33 Dude, it like wants to let the back end out.

1:35 When we drove this in ST form, we loved it.

1:37 Our only real complaint was the suspension was too stiff.

1:40 And surprise, surprise, we got an off-road version and the suspension is perfect

1:44 and and the tires are slightly overinflated.

1:46 Yeah.

1:46 Right now,

1:47 but like this is amazing.

1:48 This is so freaking good.

1:51 The looks are sick, too.

1:52 It looks cop carish

1:53 ish.

1:54 But like especially with those uh grill lights,

1:56 it's like ah it makes me a little I don't know how to turn those on or off.

1:58 Couldn't figure that out.

1:59 But you know, I'm sure there's a way.

2:00 And it's sick.

2:01 But it looks great up there.

2:02 The front end looks I think it looks

2:04 cooler like this with the accents than it does.

2:06 All blacked out like an ST.

2:07 Yeah.

2:07 Yeah.

2:07 The the whatever gold accents,

2:09 orange accents that whatever this car is called accents.

2:12 The lights are chill.

2:13 The lights at the tail lights are chill.

2:15 Everything just looks good and normal.

2:16 Nothing looks awful.

2:17 And you know what?

2:18 I can't even think of what the exhaust tips look like,

2:21 which means they probably aren't screwed up.

2:23 Let me check.

2:24 And listen to it from the outside.

2:31 Why?

2:31 Why is it?

2:32 Whoa.

2:32 Whoa.

2:32 Wait, wait, wait.

2:33 Bu Roadmaster.

2:34 Oh, no.

2:35 Cliche corner.

2:36 It's the non wagon one.

2:38 Yeah, that's still a roadmaster.

2:39 Oh, I thought it was a different name.

2:40 I kind of want to follow that guy through cliche.

2:42 You know how every Explorer has the tips that angle down?

2:45 Yeah, this one doesn't.

2:45 They're just hidden because it's off-road for approaching departure angles.

2:49 All right.

2:49 Yo, get your cell phone out.

2:50 We're going to chase this road master down cliche corner.

2:53 We'll catch him.

2:54 He's a road master.

2:54 Not going to catch him.

2:55 I got to be max zoom.

2:57 Oh, yeah.

2:59 Look at that thing.

3:00 When's the last time you saw one of these bad boys on the road?

3:02 Yo, skinny boy tuck wheels.

3:04 Looks like a looks like a ball with tires at the bottom.

3:06 Yo, a plate, too.

3:07 This guy's had it for a while.

3:09 Those tires look like they're low on PSI.

3:11 They do.

3:11 He needs some of our PSI.

3:13 Dude, that looks so sick.

3:14 So, we ripped through cliche corner already.

3:16 We don't have to do that again.

3:17 Uh, can I

3:17 wheels?

3:18 I want to talk about wheels because black wheels, whatever.

3:20 But they have the cool accent and that accent is on the valve stem.

3:25 So, you can find the valve stem to go off-roading so you can deflate your tires.

3:28 Ah, things I'm never going to do because I'm

3:30 not going to off-road with this even though it's capable.

3:32 This is just like a perfect family car.

3:34 Well, Tremor people will, right?

3:35 Will they or are they just buying it cuz it's a perfect family car?

3:38 Either or.

3:39 I would, you know, just just run normal road tires and just chill.

3:42 But like the the wheel design is cool.

3:44 I do like that a lot.

3:46 Yeah.

3:46 Fun gimmick.

3:47 And I feel like other Tremors have that too.

3:49 So that's nice.

3:49 I think that it has become their gimmick.

3:51 There's a Tremor F4 F Superduty now or something.

3:54 Yeah, Superduty just got announced.

3:55 Was it dually or no?

3:56 Uh I believe it's available on the Superduty.

3:58 So I believe Yes.

4:00 Yeah.

4:00 You know what?

4:02 Yeah, Super Duties are sick.

4:04 Okay.

4:04 Uh can I get into the one thing

4:06 that I totally hate about this car before you drive?

4:08 Since it's a pretty short review, you've already there's not much new stuff.

4:13 No, that's great.

4:14 Wireless only Apple CarPlay is from what I found.

4:17 I plug it into this logo that says

4:20 USB.

4:19 USB and it forces a USB connection.

4:21 Cool.

4:22 Or uh Bluetooth connection.

4:24 It connects.

4:25 I have my old phone that I use with my social media apps that I

4:28 to try to keep my Instagram and scroll doom scrolling off my main phone.

4:32 So, if I have to bring that somewhere like today, if it's tethering internet,

4:35 then you can't connect to your CarPlay

4:38 without turning off your personal hotspot.

4:42 Okay.

4:41 And then also, if I want to connect

4:44 to an other device like like an Osmo or something, yeah,

4:48 it won't let me do that if I'm connected to CarPlay.

4:50 So, there's a lot of disconnecting and forgetting devices I have to do,

4:53 which is why I just want cars to have wired or wireless as an option.

4:57 Just have wired or wireless as an option.

4:59 Don't get rid of wireless.

5:00 I agree.

5:00 Just have wired or wireless as an option.

5:02 You know what they should do?

5:04 Wired or wireless as an option.

5:06 That's it.

5:06 That's the only thing that I don't like about this car.

5:08 Yeah.

5:09 Sound system good.

5:10 Interior good.

5:11 This

5:13 so I could put my hands there and slide it across nicely and it doesn't slip

5:16 when I'm using the infotainment even though it

5:18 has touchscreen climate is still not even that bad.

5:22 It is just the wireless only Apple CarPlay.

5:28 Yeah.

5:27 Cell phone slot right here.

5:29 Perfect.

5:30 Cup holders with my uh faded purple uh mafe.

5:36 Perfect.

5:37 Visors.

5:37 Guess.

5:38 Guess take a wild guess.

5:39 3 2 1.

5:40 Perfect.

5:41 Effing pass.

5:44 Yeah.

5:43 Like it's just so good.

5:44 Even Blue Cruise worked the whole time.

5:46 I had years of it not working.

5:48 I think it's like blue cruise 1.5.

5:50 It worked.

5:51 Okay.

5:51 uh quickly on that.

5:52 That is a connected service that you have to pay uh yearly for or you

5:55 can pay a quote unquote one-time fee that only works for seven years.

6:02 Yeah.

6:01 So, that definitely sucks.

6:03 Let's put that in the suck list.

6:04 And then, okay, while I was uh going through the car wash,

6:07 I did use the 360 camera, which

6:11 you want to know what it is?

6:12 It's really good.

6:14 Perfect.

6:14 Yeah, really good resolution.

6:15 There's no weird stuff around it.

6:16 There's no extra black space.

6:18 And the front wheels when I go to my off-road mode, uh,

6:22 I'm like, "Yeah, I got to line up this perfect for the Oh, look at that.

6:25 It shows that." And these tires marks on the camera lined up perfect

6:30 as they should with the frigin tracks on the brush car wash

6:34 that I took this through because I don't care.

6:36 This is a press car.

6:38 This is the comments, bro.

6:39 The comments.

6:40 If I don't just just leave me alone, okay, I'm not going to leave you alone.

6:44 Leave me alone.

6:45 They didn't leave me alone with the Miata.

6:47 Yeah.

6:47 Yeah, well that was a special.

6:48 They wanted my head on a platter.

6:50 This is just a dirty old Tremor Explorer.

6:52 Oh, this thing's sick.

6:53 Okay, but one time I did connect tried to connect

6:55 to the CarPlay after not being connected or something and then

6:58 it told me I have to enable location services to go

7:00 back to my CarPlay even though I didn't have to before.

7:02 I hate location services.

7:03 I hate connected services

7:04 cuz this is Google based.

7:06 But there is one funny thing that we're going

7:07 to do before you drive and hopefully it works.

7:10 Uh you click this thing here.

7:13 Are we going to record feedback?

7:15 Uh, so

7:17 ah, so I've already sent like four messages.

7:19 I just sending them like, "Who are you?

7:20 Where do you work?

7:21 Like, can you send this back?

7:22 How long does it take you to get this message?

7:24 Add me on LinkedIn."

7:26 Uh, yeah.

7:26 Right now it's not working for some reason.

7:28 Even though we're logged into the Ford Canada.

7:30 If we turn off this car and switch drivers properly, lock and unlock it.

7:33 It might work.

7:34 We can send them some feedback.

7:36 Okay.

7:36 If you are this feedback person, leave a comment below.

7:38 Okay, we got the graphic.

7:39 That means

7:40 yo, the graphic.

7:41 This fast smooth looks cool.

7:42 This looks cool.

7:43 Another thing.

7:44 Perfect.

7:45 Ready.

7:45 Start stop button.

7:46 Normal position.

7:46 Perfect.

7:47 I would call that enough of a reset, right?

7:49 Yeah, it's not going to work.

7:50 But it did work.

7:52 No, but I didn't.

7:53 Must be associated with a Ford account.

7:54 Please add and activate the vehicle in the Ford Pass app when stored.

7:59 We're in the Ford Canada profile.

8:03 One eternity later.

8:04 Okay, so record feedback.

8:05 We tried everything.

8:06 We accepted 1,000 permissions.

8:07 I bet you they got so many messages from me.

8:09 They're like, "Yo,

8:10 yeah, probably turn this off." Yeah.

8:12 Oh.

8:12 Traction control off cuz I'm a savage.

8:16 You're savage, bro.

8:17 Traction off and all-wheel drive is savage.

8:20 Drive.

8:21 Brake boost.

8:22 Sport.

8:32 Yeah, this is this is really nice.

8:34 It feels better as a passenger.

8:35 Yeah.

8:35 I wonder if the Edge SD had a lock or the Explorer SD had a launch control.

8:39 The amount of torque from this engine is actually incredible.

8:41 People mod the hell out of these just like dummy cars, eh?

8:44 And this 10-speed is also like pretty good.

8:46 I've noticed like nothing weird about this particular one.

8:49 So, I mean, that's also really nice to see.

8:51 Try shifting.

8:51 I haven't tried shifting at all.

8:52 Okay, let's uh I'm going to put it in manual cuz

8:54 I'm assuming it's going to do weird stuff if I don't.

8:57 The the gear ratios are so close.

8:59 I just hit that once you get to 10 speed.

9:01 Don't

9:03 don't shift.

9:03 Definitely decent.

9:04 I wouldn't say I'd probably want to use them, but like that's nice to have.

9:09 Okay.

9:11 Uh, suspension.

9:12 Touched on it lightly earlier.

9:14 This is great considering the ST was too stiff.

9:17 Having that powertrain that we loved in the ST

9:20 with this nice soft suspension with a 1-in lift is literally perfect.

9:24 Pop the hood.

9:24 Does it have a dipstick?

9:26 Yes, it does, Yuri.

9:27 And what would be the Total Energy's recommended

9:29 oil for your Ford Explorer ST or this?

9:32 That would be the Quartz 9000 future FGC 5W30.

9:35 Always follow your manufacturer recommended guidelines

9:37 and let us know in the comments below

9:39 what is the longest you've gone without

9:41 changing the oil against your manufacturers's recommended guidelines.

9:44 And did your engine blow up or did you get covered under warranty somehow?

9:48 Sudge.

9:49 Sludge.

9:50 Yeah, that'll happen.

9:51 Uh if you I've seen a lot of like engines with just sludge like

9:56 at like you know dealers will post their uh tech videos and stuff like that.

9:59 You're like oh man.

10:00 I like when the I like when the green stuff comes out.

10:02 Steering is also pretty firm, at least in sport mode,

10:04 but you can change the drive modes.

10:06 We have like the right amount of drive modes, I would say.

10:08 Uh, towh hall, which this can tow up to 5,000 lbs,

10:11 just enough for jet skis and stuff.

10:13 And Unreal smooth graphics.

10:14 Yes, the graphics are great.

10:15 Uh, towhaul, sport, eco, normal, slippery, and off-road.

10:19 And I don't think there's any uh lag for frame rates

10:22 in or frame rate discrepancies in the 360 camera, which is great.

10:25 And the steering wheel feels sick.

10:27 It does actually.

10:28 And it's nice and small, like

10:29 the the stitching on it is really nice.

10:31 Doesn't it feel like it's out of like the same

10:32 size as your uh Fiesta ST or something almost?

10:36 Uh, look at all those hard buttons.

10:37 Maybe actually something like that.

10:38 It's been a while, but easy to use.

10:40 Yeah, this is great.

10:42 I think the um Explorer I think the Expedition now

10:45 has like the weird like capacitive stuff and so does the

10:48 Oh, the Expedition is like I'm literally I was literally scared.

10:50 I was scared to book this because in my head this is Oh, that was great.

10:54 In my head this was Mini Expedition.

10:56 Thank god it's not.

10:57 Yeah, this is like that old ST except off-roie.

11:00 Um, we still have a massive moon roof, which is really cool.

11:03 Like, that's massive.

11:05 Trunk space.

11:05 Really good considering it's a cheater third row.

11:08 I only have 10 boxes.

11:09 You all love the boxes back.

11:10 So, I'll I'll just test how many boxs I can fit

11:12 behind the two captain chairs until I buy some more boxes.

11:16 Uh, people didn't like the sponsored box test.

11:18 I saw the feedback.

11:19 No, they were fine with it.

11:20 It wasn't even a SP.

11:20 It was just names of stuff.

11:22 You just wrote stuff randomly.

11:23 But

11:23 I did not write stuff randomly.

11:24 They were products from like, okay, fine.

11:26 Then I'm going to put our our top 10.

11:28 I'm looking at

11:29 I'm going to put our top 10 best top 10 uh I'm going

11:33 to put our top 10 most commented usernames from our last Kia K4 hatch video.

11:39 So, let's see if that fits in the back of the Explorer behind the middle row.

11:44 Shout out Tony Roy Suzuki Bob Cars and Climbing Psalms 207.

11:50 But I did pin that comment so maybe that one's on me.

11:54 LLG47.

11:55 Also, I don't know what any of these usernames mean,

11:57 so I'm sorry if it's something bad.

12:00 Urban uh drinking tiams invictus.

12:05 And we only got room for one more box,

12:07 so we're going to go with uh need for sleep or coffees.

12:11 Shout out Henry Shecker and Turkers for your comment.

12:17 Seven boxes behind the middle row.

12:19 Eight boxes.

12:19 Eight boxes.

12:21 Okay, so actual stuff that you get with the Tremor.

12:23 Skid plates to go off-road

12:24 so we can park our car on snow banks now that the snow is melting.

12:28 Tow hooks, which are obviously colored

12:30 for when we get stuck parking our car on snow banks when the snow is melting.

12:33 Those lights that you mentioned, a couple badges,

12:35 orange accents, and that 1-in lift.

12:37 That's literally all you get with this thing.

12:39 Heck yeah.

12:39 I mean, that's all you need.

12:41 That is all you need.

12:41 Like, they didn't need to go off the deep end with it.

12:43 It's like, all right, cool.

12:44 Normal.

12:45 But the engine is quite expensive.

12:46 has like a whole package that you

12:48 package on it cuz like remember I think it's called like the Tremor extreme

12:52 package or something like that or Tremor ultimate package.

12:54 That sounds pretty sick.

12:55 It does.

12:56 But like as soon as you click that engine option on the website,

12:58 it's like adding like a lot of money.

13:00 The K4 was like 500 extra bucks for the hatch.

13:03 Yeah, this not an engine.

13:04 Okay, so this is what like you don't know 3,000 4,000 6,000

13:08 dude IT'S LIKE 13,000.

13:10 13,000?

13:10 YEAH, IT'S LIKE it's something floor for me.

13:12 It's Oh,

13:13 I was in manual.

13:14 Yeah,

13:15 it's still pretty good.

13:15 Here, I'll take it out of manual.

13:19 Not the fastest downshift there, but like the torque just pulls you along.

13:23 You still get like 300 horsepower from the not this motor.

13:25 Yeah, but like you want this one.

13:26 I want this one.

13:27 Like Yeah, it's very expensive to get.

13:29 Step your game up, bro.

13:30 If you're going to get orange accents on your car by the time get big motor,

13:33 you get to this price point where this one actually sits,

13:36 which we'll get to very soon.

13:38 You're at like the ST level of price, but you get the nice soft suspension.

13:42 So, it's just like it's the price of the ST anyways.

13:44 ST is dealreaker for that and then this is dealbreaker cuz the wireless CarPlay

13:48 which wouldn't the ST have the same thing anyways?

13:50 They're both deal breakers until we can get wired CarPlay as an option.

13:53 Oh, I definitely wouldn't call it.

13:55 I would 100% consider this.

13:56 You wouldn't call it.

13:58 Yeah, but you're not me.

13:59 All right.

13:59 Another thing that sucks is you can't actually drag your music to the left side.

14:07 So, if you're in CarPlay,

14:08 which I actually can't connect to right now, say I'm in CarPlay, right?

14:12 If I want to go to my music, I have to click here and then click here.

14:16 And then I also found another thing.

14:17 I was trying to click the climate button.

14:18 It said not allowed to do that.

14:19 At one point was in the car wash.

14:21 Yeah, that's weird.

14:22 That's weird.

14:22 That is weird.

14:23 We do have a volume knob and that works well.

14:25 Yeah.

14:25 Okay.

14:25 Uh let's get to the price of this bad boy.

14:27 Hit me with it.

14:28 It starts at $59,600 Canadian.

14:31 And this one is 76,675.

14:35 Yeah.

14:35 Not bad.

14:35 Not bad.

14:36 I mean everything the price of an STish.

14:38 Everything is bad, but that in in those sense of things, not bad.

14:41 Price-wise, everything's expensive.

14:43 But yes, this is cool.

14:44 Great SUV.

14:45 Cost a lot of money.

14:46 Got to pay for it, as you should.

14:47 tsp.trcar.com.

14:49 Discounted price offers.

14:50 Maybe they'll help you out there.

14:52 Thanks for watching.

14:53 See you guys in the next video.

14:54 Sorry about the rattling behind me.

14:55 You won't be able to hear it.

14:59 I'm Yuri.

15:00 I'm Jacob.

15:01 We just went for a drive.

15:02 Watch this other off-road vehicle you may be interested in.

15:07 Maybe it's another tremor.

15:09 I don't know.