Ford has announced that a refreshed version of the Ford Explorer utility vehicle, a 2016 model, will make it's global debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show later this month, with a new look, and a peek at Ford's newest technology. Celebrating the Explorer's 25th anniversary next year, this mid-cycle freshening of the long-running SUV nameplate, comes in the middle of it's fifth generation, which was introduced in 2010 as a 2011 model. That year, the Explorer changed from a body-on-frame truck to a car-based crossover. Since debuting in 1990 as the successor to the Ford Bronco, and as a derivative of the Ranger, nearly 7 million Ford Explorers have been sold. Ford is saving the surprises for the show, but recent spy shots have revealed that the Explorer will receive revised styling, including new fascia, headlights and grille in the front, and new fascia and taillights in the rear.

Ford is launching limited Heritage Editions of the Ford Bronco for 2023, designed to pay tribute to the 1960s-era Bronco. The Heritage package can be had with every configuration of the Bronco and Bronco Sport, but Ford will offer only 1,966 units of the package with each configuration.

Faulty Takata airbags have claimed a 28th victim worldwide. The death of a 23-year-old man in Florida hit by shrapnel from an airbag following a minor collision brings the case of these defective components back into the news, sadly.

The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) has released the list of the 10 most stolen models of 2021 in the US of A. Find out which 1997 model turned out to be the most popular model of all among American car thieves.