the freshened 2025 Ford Explorer still falls short on people hauling and value for the money. Versus the competition: The sports car of the three-row SUV set, the Explorer, is a driver’s choice ...

(Per our ethics policy, Cars.com pays for its own airfare and lodging at such automaker-sponsored events). A plug-in hybrid comes in the spring of 2020, but Ford didn’t furnish any examples to test.

The camouflaged car in front of me isn’t designed to be a future EV. Instead, this is what BMW describes as a test rig. A vehicle in which they can try out all of their latest technology, but ...