The Ford Expedition has been Kelley Blue E book’s Finest Purchase Award winner within the full-size SUV class for seven consecutive years. It balances severe consolation with severe functionality, together with actual off-road chops and spectacular towing capability.
Nevertheless, the present mannequin has been on the street for seven years. It faces a military of GM rivals — the Chevrolet Tahoe, Suburban, and GMC Yukon — all getting important updates for the 2025 mannequin yr. Ford is aware of it wants a solution.
Meet the 2025 Ford Expedition, with a brand new expertise interface, an off-road Tremor mannequin, and a brand new break up liftgate. Ford has not revealed pricing. The 2024 mannequin on supplier heaps now begins slightly below $60,000, with costs rising within the mid-$80,000 vary.
Carryover Powertrain — So Far
When Ford’s Lincoln luxurious division up to date its personal full-size SUV, the Navigator, for 2025, it left the powertrain and chassis untouched whereas redesigning the physique and inside.
Up to now, we’re seeing the identical strategy with the Expedition. Which means a twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 (making 400 horsepower in base kind and 440 hp in high-output tune). The brand new Tremor trim will get the high-output model as commonplace gear, whereas that engine is non-compulsory on different trims.
It is going to be supplied in rear- or 4-wheel drive (RWD or 4WD) with a 10-speed computerized transmission. No phrase but on hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or electrical variations of the Expedition but, although Ford reps responded to inquiries with sly grins and the usual, “We will’t touch upon future product” response to the plain questions.
Reshaped With out Radical Modifications
Designers have given it a wider grille, however an upward arc on the decrease edges retains it from trying outsized. We’re tempted to say it has a pleasant, slight grin framed by skinny LEDs formed like brackets. These even have a delicate bend to them, softening the look a bit from the way in which Ford executes it on its vehicles.
A break up liftgate – three-quarters of it folds up and one-quarter folds down like a truck’s tailgate – is new and shared with the Navigator. A fold-down third-row seat “transforms to show the tailgate right into a serving desk, and energy shops within the cargo space are simply an arm’s size away,” Ford says.
Inside, a New Strategy to Screens
Ford’s Lincoln luxurious division has taken a radical new strategy to in-car screens for 2025. The Expedition has borrowed an thought from the theme, however carried it out midway.
A 24-inch panoramic show display sits in entrance of the motive force, stretching towards the automotive’s heart. It’s mounted excessive and much away, close to the bottom of the windshield. That retains it within the driver’s line of sight, so that they don’t should look down from the roadway to seek the advice of turn-by-turn instructions or verify pace. It’s not a touchscreen and sits too distant to the touch.
Ford says {that a} practically sq. steering wheel “allows sight traces over – not by way of – the steering wheel.
A smaller touchscreen mounted within the heart stack the place you’re used to seeing a display controls it.
We’ve examined an analogous setup on the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus, however that automotive’s high-mounted display stretches practically from door to door. The Expedition’s is much smaller.
Within the Lincoln, the setup is intuitive and efficient. We’ll have to check the Expedition to see if it really works as properly on a smaller scale.
In the event you want voice instructions, you may select your voice assistant — Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa are inbuilt. Wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone mirroring are commonplace.
An all-new Ford Connectivity Package deal provides “the power to make use of the Wi-Fi hotspot functionality, Google Play apps, and embedded Google Maps seamlessly.” The system can deal with as much as 10 related units concurrently as much as 50 ft from the car. It comes at a price, although. Ford says patrons can bundle a subscription into the acquisition value or settle for a one-year free trial after which pay yearly.
Relating to subscriptions, Ford’s well-regarded BlueCruise hands-free freeway driving help system comes “accessible to activate” with a free 90-day plan.
Second-row passengers get a built-in gadget holder that “clamps firmly round practically any digital gadget – from commonplace smartphone to over-sized pill.”
Tremor Mannequin
Ford scraps the Timberline off-road Expedition for a extra succesful Tremor mannequin in 2025.
“Its 10.6-inch floor clearance is healthier than every other car within the full-size SUV section,” Ford says. It rides on on 33-inch Normal Grabber all-terrain tires.
Engineers retuned its suspension and electrical power-assisted steering system for the path and gave it “Raptor-style operating boards and entrance skid plate.”
You’ll spot a Tremor because of badges and exterior trim bits achieved in a coloration Ford calls “Electrical House Orange” and everybody else calls yellow. The identical shade decorates stitching inside, and colours the Tremor logos on the entrance seats.
We’ve lengthy appreciated the Expedition’s distinctive steadiness of family-friendly house and arduous work ethic. The Chevy Tahoe tends to outsell it with assist from fleet patrons, however the Expedition can show a better option for a lot of personal patrons. The distinctive interface of the 2025 mannequin may additional that impact if it really works as properly with smaller screens because it does with Lincoln’s movie-theater-size setup.
We stay up for testing it to let you understand for certain.
