The Ford Explorer has been around for almost 30 years. In that time, the SUV segment has evolved in ways no one couldve dreamed of. Through it all, the Explorer has remained one of the segments backbones, a pillar from which the SUV world has stood on for close to three decades. The Explorers life reads like a Hollywood script, too. It started off with a bang, establishing itself as one of the most popular SUVs on the market. That success lasted for more than a decade before the Explorer lost its way as other SUVs arrived. Sales eventually cratered, leaving Ford desperate to recapture the magic the Explorer had when it became the breakout hit of the early 90s. The return to form eventually took place as the SUV segment in the U.S. exploded. With the Explorer now entrenched as one of the most popular SUVs in the market, Fords banking on the sixth-generation model to keep that momentum. Whether it does so or not remains to be seen, but the all-new Explorer appears fully equipped to take on that challenge.