Far be it from me to Knock or promote the Ford Explorer, but to my knowledge it has not been a problem in the UK, however it is not that popular over here anyway. Any offroad vehicle will suffer seriouse handeling problems when a tyre blows-out at speed due to it's high CoG, indeed the classic Range Rover suffered at the hands of the Times newspaper some years ago and was branded a death trap because of numerouse roll-over incidents. The point is that Land Rover has sat back on it's oversized ass for too long, it is living on it's past reputation and old adage of evolution not revolution. By all means carry on with the simple Defender style vehicles (lets get rid of the electronics though), but the RR and Disco must compete with other similar cars if LR are to survive. I have owned LR products for 35 years and apart from they're offroad ability have found many shortcomings which have never been addressed by the makers, if Ford wish to drag LR into the 21'st century then good luck to them. Better to move it than lose it.
