New Heights

THE EVEREST IS THE CLOSEST WE’VE COME – AND SADLY, THE CLOSEST WE WILL EVER COME – TO AN AUSTRALIAN DESIGNED AND DEVELOPED 4X4.

The Everest’s tidy on-road performance is complemented by what is perhaps an even better performance off-road ARRIVING in late 2015, the Ford Everest is essentially a wagon sculptured from a ute, in this case Ford’s highly successful Ranger. Aside from the obvious change to the wagon body, there are coil springs in place of leaf springs for the rear live axle, disc brakes instead of drums and, at the rear, a shortened wheelbase and a ‘active’ full-time 4x4 system rather than the Ranger’s more utilitarian part-time 4x4 system. All three Everest models seat seven, a feat in part made possible by a wheelbase that’s still as long as a Land Cruiser 200. Interestingly, the Grand Cherokee has an even longer wheelbase, but all models only seat five. POWERTRAIN AND PERFORMANCE THE Everest shares what is…

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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2017

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