LOCAL HERO IN A TUX

It may have started life as a ute, but the Ford Everest Titanium is now as flash as they come.

JUST in case you didn’t know, the Everest is essentially a wagon version of Ford’s highly successful Ranger ute. Aside from the obvious body change, there are coil springs in place of leaf springs for the rear axle, disc brakes instead drums at the rear, and an ‘active’ full-time 4x4 system rather than the Ranger’s more utilitarian part-time system. The wheelbase has also been reduced from the Ranger’s extraordinarily long 3220mm (which is even longer than a Toyota LC79 cab-chassis) to 2850mm, which is the same as a Toyota LC200 (still very long). POWERTRAIN AND PERFORMANCE THE EVEREST shares the 2015 face-lifted Ranger’s 3.2-litre inline five-cylinder diesel engine. Changes from the original Ranger engine include a smaller, more efficient turbo for faster spool-up, a more sophisticated higher-pressure common-rail fuel system, and other…

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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2016

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