Is the NEW 2022 Ford Explorer King Ranch a luxury SUV worth the PRICE?

The NEW King Ranch trim is here for the 2022 Ford Explorer. On the outside of this ranch special you will find a unique grill, LED headlights, 20in wheels, and badging. On the inside the Cowboy them continues with a 2-tone interior, leather seating, 10in infotainment system, and digital gauges. Under the hood is a 3.0L twin-turbo V6 producing 365HP & is mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission. Is the NEW 2022 Ford Explorer King Ranch a luxury SUV worth the PRICE?
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[jumpjet]

"After a hard day at the ranch, you can rub your wood to help relax ya." Classic Raiti puns

[cjeygitau]

You are the most hard-working YouTuber... New content every 12hrs
Always mention the price

[StormC]

As someone from Texas, I LOVE the theme Ford used in this SUV, making it outstanding! Thanks for reviewing it!

[Hellome]

I have been driving it for a while. When we made decision to get it I couldn’t find any review of this trim. So far we love it. My husband drives F150 and let me tell y’all he just look out for reason to drive my Explorer King-ranch..Does not behave like that with my other 4 past vehicles. So soft so smooth so much fun to drive, and it comes with the characters!

[doreenszmyt]

I watched your video on the explorer king ranch. I have one and you missed the fact that it has massaging seats. It's even better than you think

[wesmahon]

Just purchased a 2022 King Ranch. Truly an awesome vehicle. It is very quick and has a very smooth ride especially when compared to our 2016 Jeep GranCherokee. The interior build quality is really nice too. The twin turbo 3.0 liter is an excellent engine with 400 hp and 415 ft lbs of torque

[LS]

I’m not digging the vertical info screen. It would be nice if it was horizontal and integrated in the dash. With the chocolate seats they should call it the”king” sized Kit Kat edition. Lol. Thanks Joe. Great review! Great job Lori!! 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸

[O-Friendly]

I think they have the exhaust ports coming from the bottom to prevent the exhaust fumes from fading and damaging the paint of the back lower bumper over a period of time. I personally think it's a good idea

[haseebkhan]

Test drove this over the weekend and not gonna lie the v6 drives amazing. I know folks are going with the Palisade and Telluride these days but the explorer drives amazing.

[mtalha]

I was planning on getting an ST Explorer but that vertical screen is a deal breaker. Especially considering the fact that they squeezed all the camera views to the top.

[trbstang]

King Ranch is a great option for a luxury mid size SUV, but if I'm spending that much, I'd get the ST. I just looked at the exact one I'd buy yesterday if I was in the market now, a red and black ST. But I can see the King Ranch being a good option. I still miss our Eddie Bauer 07 Explorer! Thanks Joe for the review!

[rebeccapescador]

We purchased one yesterday 🤗 I had no idea! They made it on the Explorer never in a million did I think I’ll be driving one.

[pcbassman]

Hey Joe, I work for Lear Corporation and we assemble the seats for the Explorers. I never actually seen them in the vehicle. Comes all together with everything else. Thanks for the video and yes, ZONK that horn!!!

[mikesampont]

Just bought this sweet ride this week! Love it! Awesome review.

[zman]

This dude got to be a riot to work with

[Idontwantahandle]

I agree with tucking the rear wiper underneath the spoiler. I think the one concern is that the mechanical box for the wiper is bulky and would take up visibility if it was up by the spoiler. If Fords had the digital rear view mirror (which they should for these size vehicles) that would negate that issue entirely.

[dustinryan]

South Texan here about 45 minutes from the King Ranch, no one here ranches in any kind of King Ranch Ford’s haha. Unless you’re filthy rich and don’t care. Fun fact, the King Ranch is the largest ranch in the United States at nearly 900K acres, it spans over several counties, has communities, stores, schools, thousand of employees, and in size, is larger than the state of Rhode Island!

[wrzl]

Low mount rear wipers. As an ex auto glass tech and Toyota and Honda employee, here’s why they don’t high mount rear wipers. While sitting in the drivers seat turn and look out the back widow and notice the most used point of sight and look how much of that will be in the wiper path on a high mount and how much more you get with the low mount.
High mounts clear a little spot dead middle of the lower half of the widow where as bottom mounts clear alot more of the bottom half of the window.
In reality if you’re driving an SUV you should be able to use your side mirrors well enough to never need a back window or rear view mirror but car drivers never have that much skill.

[garymiller]

I think Ford should put the infotainment screen from the F-150 in it and that would fix the screen problem

[Noah-uiiu]

What they really need to do is make the top half of the screen the backup camera and the bottom half the 360 camera with that vertical screen. Taking up the whole bottom half with just a car icon showing parking sensors is useless. That could easily be moved to the instrument cluster or just illuminate a specific quadrant of the 360 camera to indicate the status of a specific sensor.