The 2017 Ford Explorer Platinum

The 2017 Ford Explorer Platinum offers capability, technology and the power needed on the open road. Take a first drive with car enthusiast Cristy Lee now. The 2017 Ford Explorer is a sharp-looking three-row SUV with a wide range of engines.

Ford Recalls 660,000 Explorer SUVs

 

Thousands of Ford Explorer SUVs are being recalled over fears of their roof rail covers possibly detaching while driving, the U.S. automaker said in documents posted Sunday.

The recall covers 661,000 SUVs – 620,0483 of which were sold in the U.S. – with model years 2016 through 2019. The SUVs have silver, black and absolute black roof rail covers. Customers will be notified if their vehicle is under the recall the week of June 28.

Self Driving Car Service Coming Soon

They about to get ready to cut Taxi drivers out of a job! GM plans to get its autonomous cars driving commercially around cities by 2019. That’s according to a presentation posted on the automaker’s website, which stated that at its current rate, GM expects “commercial launch at scale” to happen after next year.

That includes commercial use for both item delivery and passenger carrying. The latter could refer to the autonomous taxi fleet of Bolt EVs GM plans to launch in 2018, which its preparing for with additional testing. The could offer its own service as well, given how much things have cooled between GM’s autonomous Cruise division and Lyft.)