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The Ford Explorer used to have a construction based on a truck frame until the 2016 models. However, since then, they have transitioned to a unibody platform. With longitudinally-mounted engines and standard rear-wheel drive, they are now more akin to typical luxury SUVs.
The Ford Explorer no longer uses a truck frame.
The Ford Explorer had a full frame construction until 2010. In 2011, it introduced a unibody front-wheel drive chassis for the first time. This continued until 2020 when a new unibody rear-wheel drive based chassis was introduced.
Over the last couple of years, the structure of the Ford Explorer has been designed to resemble that of an SUV rather than a traditional truck.
The Ford Explorer is constructed using a chassis typically found in trucks, giving it a sturdy foundation.