Ford company presented the police car constructed on the basis of off-road car Explorer of following generation. The novelty joins in a ruler of Ford's special cars and appears on the enterprise conveyor in Chicago next year. Tests of both cars were used by policemen of district Los Angeles and the State of Michigan.
Ford Explorer for US Policemen
Police Ford Explorer will be presented in all-wheel drive versions with the atmospheric 6-cylinder engine in volume of 3,5 litres and power of 280HP. Such motor is aggregated with a 5-step automatic transmission and is capable to work, both on usual gasoline, and on bioethanol E85. According to representatives of Ford, Explorer for 20 percent is more economic than the police sedans Crown Victoria.
Ford Explorer Police Vehicle
The novelty received the strengthened body, more hardy suspender and the modernised brake gears, the new generator and a radiator, and also 18-inch wheel disks which for drop of expenses are unified with disks for police Ford Taurus. In off-road car interior there was a computer system with the nine-inch screen for access to a database, fastenings for the weapon, video registration systems, and also special closed compartments in a luggage compartment.
Besides Ford, the cars for police of the USA offer some more companies — Dodge (which prepared version Charger), Chevrolet (prepared for special services Caprice) and firm Carbon Motors which has developed own car.
New generation of Ford Explorer has been shown in the USA to a narrow circle of the elite. The VIP-representatives of the American car dealers of mark Ford have been invited to model demonstration.
New Ford Explorer 2011
From the middle of the eightieth and up to crisis of 2008 Ford Expplorer was one of the basic models of the company in the car market of the North America.
Ford Motor Co. has presented to car dealers new Explorer as model 2012. Earlier, Ford planned to start new model in the end of this year, but decided to begin manufacture at least since January, 2011.
Off-road Explorer
New Ford Explorer will receive absolutely new platform. The motor-car manufacturer will offer four-cylinder two-litre motor EcoBoost. Predictably, the six-cylinder motor will be offered also.
The dealers seeing the new car, notice: "The car became more roundish, than present model Explorer, with smooth lines and reminds the increased version of crossover Ford Edge."
