2005 Ford Explorer Sport Trac XLT Adrenalin from North America - Comments

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There is a problem with the 60/40 split rear seats. The seat on the driver's side rear will not fold over due to the sub-woofer being mounted underneath.

They do have a V8 available today. It comes in the form of a 4.6 liter. The older Explorers came with 302s, which are nice engines.

The reviewer is correct, Ford only offers a 4.0 liter V-6 in the Sport Track. You can get a small V-8 in the Explorer, but not in the Sport Track.

The new sport trac will have a v8 option. Before I think 2005 or so it was only the 4.0 v6 being offered on sport tracs.

Explorers had v6s and 5.0 v8s up until ford switced up engines from 5.0s and 5.8s to 4.6s and 5.4s.

I work for a company that test drives the Sporttracs and I can tell you the 2007 sporttracs have a very powerful v8 engine and run fantastically and that comes from someone that don't even like ford that much, but I'm begining to change that outlook. LOL.

Just my opinion, but I really wish Ford had made a true quad cab pickup truck using the Ranger base. Chevy, Dodge, Toyota, and Nissan all offer true pickup truck quad cab vehicles. I feel it would have been a real hot product for Ford. The Sport Track just does not seem to know what it is, SUV or truck? I know that many like the product the way it is. Could you imagine a Ranger Quad Cab with the 4.6 liter V-8, and FX4 package? It would have been a huge success.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they do sell quad cab Rangers for the European/Asian markets. Over there, they are sold with diesels.

Yes I think you are right, I saw a picture of a European version Ford Ranger on the Internet. It looked waaaaay different though, not nearly as good as the American version.

Now that we have gone off the beaten path, the 4 door ranger wouldn't work because of it's already high rollover ratings, especially if they extended the wheelbase. Also because about 75 percent of the rangers are equipped with the 3.0 duratec v6 which supplies hardly any power to the regular and extended cab trucks... which brings us back to the " I wish it had a v8" thought... but that's just me.