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2026. 10. 28. 작업

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I've threatened to do this so here goes, I've got my anti-EV flame suit buttoned up and gone and leased a new Ford Explorer EV.It's an Extended Range Select rwd in Rapid Red and it arrived this morning.Any questions fire away. One little nugget though, it's on staggered wheels, 235 front and 255 rear. I don't know of any 'normal' car with that outside of say a 911 or the like.

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samoht said: Looks good in red, how does it drive?On the tyre sizes, ordinary petrol cars have the heaviest component, the engine, mounted ahead of the front wheels. This gives a front-heavy weight distribution (55-60% perhaps). Thus under lateral load, given equal size tyres front and rear, the front tyres will tend to deflect more from the chosen line, giving stability / understeer, as the fronts have more mass to turn.Most EVs have the heaviest component, the battery, mounted centrally under the occupants. This gives close to a 50/50 weight distribution. (VW states near 50/50 for the closely related ID4). This means that if you fitted equal size tyres, absent any other tuning the tyres would deflect equally at front and rear under equal forces. Put a couple of cases of wine in the boot and you could end up with an unstable car.The wider rear tyres on your Explorer will deflect less from their line per unit of lateral force than the narrower fronts, thus ensuring stability. This is also why things like 911s have wider rear tyres.Thanks for the explanation, it tickled me a bit and as it's fully maintained, I'm not worrying too much about tyre wear.It drives like a rwd car, decent turn in and you can feel being pushed on acceleration, if you know what I mean. I regularly drive front, rear and awd vehicles and this feels very planted and doesn't feel its weight.The screen is a bit gimmicky, however it is useful to move it to eliminate glare and of course the area under the screen is useful for storing sunglasses, etc.Oh, and I like the puddle lamps