New crossover shifts to an all-new rear- and all-wheel drive platform

The wraps have come off the Ford Police Interceptor Utility, giving the world its camouflage-free look at the 2020 Ford Explorer.

Thanks to the car's black paint job, as well as its police livery, lighting and bull bar, a lot of Explorer's styling details are obscured from view.

Despite that, we can see the new Explorer sticks pretty closely to the styling template laid out by today's car. The biggest deviation comes up front where slimmer headlights and a grille similar to the one on Endura, give the vehicle a more car-like appearance.

While the outgoing Explorer sat on the same Volvo-derived front- and all-wheel drive platform as the Ford Taurus, the new Explorer uses a new rear- and all-wheel drive platform engineered around its hybrid battery pack.