Bill Pierre Ford

• Design adds cues from best-selling Ford F-Series. New interior features, improved craftsmanship and impressive quietness.
• All-new chassis provides solid foundation and increased capability.
• Standard side airbags, three-row Safety Canopy system.

Ford Expedition sets a new benchmark once again this year, offering the kind of capability for hauling people and cargo that can only come from a full-size SUV. The new Ford Expedition and all-new Expedition EL extended length model deliver a fresh design and best-ever capability and comfort developed specifically for those core SUV customers, while building on the tradition of excellence as a leader among the full-size AUV segment with unmatched, class-exclusive or first-in-class features.

Expedition’s new design, inspired by the best-selling Ford F-Series truck, signals big improvements in capability, functionality and toughness. And new levels of interior refinement, flexibility and quietness change the game in Expedition’s favor among discriminating full-size SUV customers.

Full-size SUV buyers are, may be, the most demanding customers of all. They want uncompromised capability and unquestioned toughness, along with interior flexibility and refinement. The new Expedition has been designed with unique customer appeal that makes it stand out in a competitive market.

Comfortable and Capable on the Inside:

The new Expedition delivers a new level of interior comfort, refinement and quality. For example, Expedition’s seats have been redesigned from the floor up with improved contours, larger bolsters, softer cushions and upgraded materials to provide increased comfort on long trips.

Improved Road-Cruising Quietness :
Expedition engineers set aggressive targets for reducing noise, vibration and harshness (NVH). Normal conversation is easily discernible from the front row all the way to the third-row seat, thanks to improved sound-deadening materials in the carpet and headliner, increased insulation behind the dashboard and door panels, thicker side glass and a specially engineered acoustical windshield – all designed to help reduce interior noise. And it doesn’t stop there.

Bigger, softer body mounts and improved engine and transmission mounts isolate the cabin from unwanted vibration. Wind tunnel-tuned-and-tested outside mirrors further reduce wind and road noise. Even Expedition’s tires have been specifically tuned to reduce road noise.

The Ford Motor Company is working on an idea that will allow it to design cars and trucks that match the driving styles of its customers.

The secret – and the name may ring a bell – is a black box tucked under the back seat.
The module is a little computer.As a customer drives along, we can basically listen to what the car is saying, and we take that data and send it back to Dearborn (Ford headquarters).
“They look at anything from range to engine speed, vehicle speed, throttle positions . ”
Once back at the lab, engineers take the box and transfer the information into a computer. They can then determine such things as how long the car has been driven, the distance it went, the throttle positions used and so forth.
Ford is placing about 200 boxes in cars and trucks in the United States and Canada, but it has no plans to put them in production vehicles. The idea is to use the information they gain to produce vehicles that better match each driver’s style.
Goal is to predict vehicle troubles . But Cosworth, the company that developed the box, says it can be used to predict and prevent problems.
“After you build a history of these conditions occurring, you can probably predict what’s gonna happen, and you better take your car in very shortly”.
That’s one of the things that make these boxes different from those used in airliners. The boxes for vehicles are designed to help prevent problems, not diagnose why they have already happened, as in the case of plane crashes.
The other thing that makes the boxes different from those on planes – those boxes are actually orange – is that the vehicle boxes really are black.