Explorer is o start, despite less than enthusiastic reviews. Meanwhile, the Flex, which shares the Explorer’s platform, founders in the marketplace, after four model years, though its boxy body provides a roomier, more useful interior and reviews have been mostly positive. Last year, the Ford Transit Connect outsold the Flex.
So Ford’s throwing a kind of Hail Mary pass with a face-lift for 2013. The basic box,with horizontal side strakes and optional two-tone paint remains, though there’s a new, kind of macho horizontal brushed chrome grille bar, new lower fascia, and headlamps and “F-L-E-X”badging above the grille replacing the Blue Oval.There’s a new 20-inch machined aluminum wheel option, rain-sensing wipers, power folding mirrors, thumb shifters for the SelectShift automatic, passive entry and start, and the now-requisite interior upgrade.
The cockpit features new instrumenta¬tion, steering wheel, and seat trim and foam, and the MyFordTouch system gets improvements the company has promised, to make its use easier.This face-lift might not be enough to save the Flex for a second generation, but take our word for it: It’s a much better ride, and a much better choice than its Explorer sibling.
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