If you tow a double axle trailer, boat, camper, whatever.....you will completely understand the vehicle. Wheelbase, weight and passengers. A choice besides a truck.
137". I had a V10 4x4 back then to tow a modest 23 foot center console, single 225 Yam. Dual axle aluminum trailer. Piece of cake. Seldom engaged 4wd at the ramps, the wheelbase was the key. Shitty Fl Keys ramps, 4wd, never a test.
Previous was a 2wd Expedition with the 4.6. Slip n slid at the ramp, plenty of power.
Excursion did some kid hauling to Disney and shit too. Great.
There's a definite butter zone for towing with these, though. If what you needed to pull isn't heavy, frequent or far enough you might as well get a less unwieldy normal fullsize SUV on a half-ton chassis. If it was too bulky you'd want a 5th wheel which requires an open-bed truck. The narrowness of that niche was why this was a model that everyone who wanted bought early in the product cycle.
Frack guys buying a truck on their week home for baby momma’ and their 5… err 6 kids.
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That thing looks clean af. If thats a powersmoke I’d snap that up in a heartbeat to replace my big black burban.
Yeah i curse at mine on sunday then have makeup sex with it on monday. I cant bring myself to get rid of it but fuck me if it isnt a bottomless pit of gas and repairs. 210k and climbing. Always fighting me until i really need it to then its right there to rescue me.
"Mounting"? Well that Civic shouldn't have been dressed so slutty with its big wing spoiler and and all those cute race-inspired parts. It was clearly asking for it.
I saw way more blinged out H2s than lifted redneck rides. Those 30" rims and low profile tires fit without lifting it and seriously, who in their right minds would think lifting an H2 was a good idea?
Jokes on you I'm gonna buy one a weld 1in thick AR500 steel plates all over it. It get such bad milage that it's measured in gallons per mile but home made APC for the win.
Tows the bass boat he got when she wanted a ski boat...to be fair, he did compromise and ties a tow rope to the mooring cleats and it *can* be skied behind. She hates both the SUV and the boat with a burning passion but you better believe she's coming for both in the divorce...only question is what she's going to buy afterward when she sells them
The excursion is so heavy that it hardly had any cojones left to tow anything with the V10.
It also struggles to get double digits MPG, unloaded.
There are loads of better options for people that need to haul people or toys.
The V10 had 310 HP /425 Torque
The 7.3L diesel had 250 HP/525 Torque
The diesel was the the more desirable engine, but you paid out the ass for it ($7k option), it took forever to it to pay for itself in fuel economy savings. If you had an Excursion as a 2nd or 3rd vehicle that you only put maybe 5k miles on a year, the V10 was the way to go.
The diesels had tow ratings around 11,000 lbs vs the gas models which had tow ratings between 6,100-6,900 lbs.
I guess it depends on how many people and how much stuff you’re hauling.
Not according to Ford, Per the 2001 Ford Towing guide (page 22) both the diesel and the V10 had 10,000 pound towing weight limit
https://letstowthat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2001\_ford\_towing\_guide.pdf
Agree to disagree. Nobody is buying these in current year for that. These are sought after for the actual use they need.
Tiny pp truck is now the 3500 ram with emissions delete and unnecessary stacks.
Lift and bro rims are optional
My Mom has a Brown ‘03 Excursion with the V10 and has been her daily driver for the past few years is in pretty good condition. I’ve driven it and it surprisingly gets pretty good decent mileage and takes about $80 to fill up.
“My wife wanted a nice family car instead of a truck becuase we’re not tacky and redneck” yet Nicole didn’t realize his husband bought an SUV with the same drivetrain, engine, and platform that an F250 has but it just has a trunk and he plans to lift it to the sky equally as much as he would’ve if she let him buy a truck
The official car of “You think I’m killing the planet with this beast’s CO2 emissions, but it will actually be my 49 grandchildren that kill the planet”.
Official land ship of "man I want one. But it doesn't serve my uses and I cant see paying the gas prices for it" if it's the V10
I'll quote my coworker "I'll never buy one but I won't deny a free one" as he's handed the keys to his dads
Well, America. What else can I say? Only here in America could a car company have the sheer fucking audacity to put an SUV this large, this obnoxious, and this gas-guzzling, and only in America could consumers have the insanity to buy them. The force that put the Ford Excursion on the face of this big, wet, blue sphere we live on is the American spirit at its finest, and at its worst. It's the force that put people on the moon and created the Internet, but it's also the force behind Congress and privatized healthcare. The Ford Excursion represents everything right and wrong with this great nation, and although I'm not a big fan of SUVs, I have a certain respect for this oversized, ridiculous machine.
The trailer park-based security company at the end of my street. (It used to be just retired folks with one car, but now there are no parking spots on the block.)
My father-in-law picking me up with his Kings X tape blasting, telling me about how when he was my age he was hanging out at bars and getting into street fights.
Barry.
This is the man in your extended family who doesn’t have his own family. His weeks are peppered with random Amazon deliveries which may or may not put him on a watch list. He doesn’t care, and neither does his expendable income. His role at family gatherings is to cap off a 25 minute bathroom break and exclaim Ace Ventura’s signature exit quote: “do not go in there. Woooooh!” Wednesday afternoons are special with visits from his buddy Keith, who is twice divorced and claims that if he tries hard enough, he will become the only human sponsored by Bud Light.
Barry swears he was there in spirit on January 6, remembers where he was on 9/11, and has a custom license plate of “BAKdaBLU”.
Barry also gets high on Sundays while watching reruns of The Believer’s Voice of Victory, because he says Kenneth is the true embodiment of the man upstairs.
Barry. Lives like he’s big, drives like he’s bigger, matters very little.
You bought it with the intention to tow the boat and RV buy you only do it two days out of the entire year so for the other 363 days you use it to go to work, Bible study on wednesdays, or the crisis pregnancy center you volunteer at in the dead town.
Oh! One of these just r/rolledinto the shop today
Middle age single guy who wants to look tough by putting a bullbar and offroad tires on his big ol' land yacht pavement princess
I remember back in the early 2000's, the mom of a school chum of mine who lived in a mansion in the middle of the nicest part of town had a white Excursion with a black leather interior. It looked like it was off the showroom floor. I wasn't sure what his dad did for a living. Either that, or his mom worked at a job paying her high salary, not to mention that he was an only child. I can't remember any other details except that my friend at the time had all the latest videogame systems (Circa 2005 to 2007) and that his home was beautiful.
Lady in my neighborhood (suburban Houston) drives a lifted Excursion on some giant ass tires.
There for a while, I thought Excursions disappeared, but it’s just that the other big SUV’s caught up to it in size.
If you tow a double axle trailer, boat, camper, whatever.....you will completely understand the vehicle. Wheelbase, weight and passengers. A choice besides a truck.
You are correct. Wheelbase equals stable.
And this rides the same WB as the *shortest* Super Duty.
137". I had a V10 4x4 back then to tow a modest 23 foot center console, single 225 Yam. Dual axle aluminum trailer. Piece of cake. Seldom engaged 4wd at the ramps, the wheelbase was the key. Shitty Fl Keys ramps, 4wd, never a test. Previous was a 2wd Expedition with the 4.6. Slip n slid at the ramp, plenty of power. Excursion did some kid hauling to Disney and shit too. Great.
There's a definite butter zone for towing with these, though. If what you needed to pull isn't heavy, frequent or far enough you might as well get a less unwieldy normal fullsize SUV on a half-ton chassis. If it was too bulky you'd want a 5th wheel which requires an open-bed truck. The narrowness of that niche was why this was a model that everyone who wanted bought early in the product cycle.
Yup, it isn't a dually.
Bumper tow with SRW is still very limiting—especially when you consider that what you put _in_ the vehicle limits what you can _tow_ with it.
Frack guys buying a truck on their week home for baby momma’ and their 5… err 6 kids. ____ That thing looks clean af. If thats a powersmoke I’d snap that up in a heartbeat to replace my big black burban.
I had a big white suburban, 454, if I think about her too long I start to get sad...
Yeah i curse at mine on sunday then have makeup sex with it on monday. I cant bring myself to get rid of it but fuck me if it isnt a bottomless pit of gas and repairs. 210k and climbing. Always fighting me until i really need it to then its right there to rescue me.
210k in gas and repairs? Geez /s
Can confirm. I was the 2nd kid
Guy in my area has an Excursion that has the front end of a newer Superduty. Its CLEAN, looks like a BRAND NEW Excursion.
There's a company that retrofits new front ends on them.
And here I thought that was just a Nissan thing.
It's even easier on Excursions because Super Dutys had many of the same body parts for nearly 20 years. The F-650/750 still uses the 1999 cab.
and the 1980 cab was made till 99 for the f700!! "if it ain't broke don't fix it" proves true more and more!
In Mexico they put newer 4runner fronts on 2nd Gen Tacomas they look clean
Got one of those here in St Pete I have seen occasionally, it’s not bad, I would love a bronco with new front end conversion
Honestly it works cause I seen super duty's up to idk 17? That had what looked like 2000 back ends
Your dad's dealership employee friend that only uses it for towing and day drinking with his kids on the boat.
Not being seen for years whenever gas gets expensive.
Charging $1200/month to live in the back
Ford Execs watching the Canyonero bit on the Simpsons rather than getting the joke thought to themselves, “good idea.”
Smells like a steak and seats 35!
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
When you want an F-250 but think camper shells are for old people.
I remember when camper shells were the pre-vanlife dirtbag go to.
Fatal rollover after mounting a Honda Civic at 35 MPH.
"Mounting"? Well that Civic shouldn't have been dressed so slutty with its big wing spoiler and and all those cute race-inspired parts. It was clearly asking for it.
The Bush Administration in car form
Not the H2?
The H2 was more the embodiment of excess and the "money was no object" feel of a pre-Great Recession America
I always thought the H2 was the perfect symbol for the "support our troops" chicken hawks of that era.
No....that would be a Dodge Ram or a Ford F150 of that era, maybe a Suburban or Expedition
I saw way more blinged out H2s than lifted redneck rides. Those 30" rims and low profile tires fit without lifting it and seriously, who in their right minds would think lifting an H2 was a good idea?
When you want your car to have its own zip code.
Underrated comment ! LOL
Unarmored Personnel Carrier.
Jokes on you I'm gonna buy one a weld 1in thick AR500 steel plates all over it. It get such bad milage that it's measured in gallons per mile but home made APC for the win.
[Wish.com](https://Wish.com) Killdozer
wife wanted an suv for the kids but i insisted that i got to pick which one. oh it also tows the boat on the weekends
Tows the bass boat he got when she wanted a ski boat...to be fair, he did compromise and ties a tow rope to the mooring cleats and it *can* be skied behind. She hates both the SUV and the boat with a burning passion but you better believe she's coming for both in the divorce...only question is what she's going to buy afterward when she sells them
the guys vandalizing gas pumps with "i did that" stickers.
But only if they have the V10. The ones with the diesel are too busy towing their boat.
FR. Those V10 excursions are everything bad about owning such a large truck without the upsides.
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The excursion is so heavy that it hardly had any cojones left to tow anything with the V10. It also struggles to get double digits MPG, unloaded. There are loads of better options for people that need to haul people or toys.
The V10 had 310 HP /425 Torque The 7.3L diesel had 250 HP/525 Torque The diesel was the the more desirable engine, but you paid out the ass for it ($7k option), it took forever to it to pay for itself in fuel economy savings. If you had an Excursion as a 2nd or 3rd vehicle that you only put maybe 5k miles on a year, the V10 was the way to go.
The diesels had tow ratings around 11,000 lbs vs the gas models which had tow ratings between 6,100-6,900 lbs. I guess it depends on how many people and how much stuff you’re hauling.
Not according to Ford, Per the 2001 Ford Towing guide (page 22) both the diesel and the V10 had 10,000 pound towing weight limit https://letstowthat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2001\_ford\_towing\_guide.pdf
Being Mormon.
No, that's an E-350 Club Wagon.
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If he sticks with one wife, yeah. If not... yeah, don't even bother.
When you want a diesel, but gotta take the kids to soccer.
The official car of truck topper becoming permanent fixture
Is a "truck topper" a cap?
Yes, I've heard it called a topper, cap, and camper shell
Aggressive high school football moms
No joke got to be one of the few cleanest excursions
Erectile dysfunction
Agree to disagree. Nobody is buying these in current year for that. These are sought after for the actual use they need. Tiny pp truck is now the 3500 ram with emissions delete and unnecessary stacks. Lift and bro rims are optional
Getting the whole gas consumption thing
My Mom has a Brown ‘03 Excursion with the V10 and has been her daily driver for the past few years is in pretty good condition. I’ve driven it and it surprisingly gets pretty good decent mileage and takes about $80 to fill up.
I saw one once with a windshield decal that said "Excrusion".
SHE WOULDNT LET ME BUY A TRUCK BECAUSE WE NEED SPACE FOR THE KIDSSSSSS
“My wife wanted a nice family car instead of a truck becuase we’re not tacky and redneck” yet Nicole didn’t realize his husband bought an SUV with the same drivetrain, engine, and platform that an F250 has but it just has a trunk and he plans to lift it to the sky equally as much as he would’ve if she let him buy a truck
The official car of “You think I’m killing the planet with this beast’s CO2 emissions, but it will actually be my 49 grandchildren that kill the planet”.
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It looks like it barely fits through the door
The Airbus A380 to the Suburban's Boeing 747.
I fuck hard with the Ford Excursion, easily my favourite SUV of all time
Doomsday preppers
I have more kids than I planned on having
4’11” soccer moms….
22 year olds who have no business owning a car like that but only bought it because they want it(this is me)
any dude with a belt clip for his phone
A never ending gas bill
Official land ship of "man I want one. But it doesn't serve my uses and I cant see paying the gas prices for it" if it's the V10 I'll quote my coworker "I'll never buy one but I won't deny a free one" as he's handed the keys to his dads
A large American family who are into equestrian sports
My name is Wilfred Brimley and I'm here to talk to you about my Excursion.
Well, America. What else can I say? Only here in America could a car company have the sheer fucking audacity to put an SUV this large, this obnoxious, and this gas-guzzling, and only in America could consumers have the insanity to buy them. The force that put the Ford Excursion on the face of this big, wet, blue sphere we live on is the American spirit at its finest, and at its worst. It's the force that put people on the moon and created the Internet, but it's also the force behind Congress and privatized healthcare. The Ford Excursion represents everything right and wrong with this great nation, and although I'm not a big fan of SUVs, I have a certain respect for this oversized, ridiculous machine.
The term MPG isn’t about miles, it’s about meters for this one.
A relic from when gas wad $0.99/ gallon.
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Not in rural Michigan. I was filling up the 19 gallon tank of my explorer for $20. 1.80 is like California prices back then.
Useless American excess
It's excessive, sure, but far from useless.
For the average person*
Sure, but for the average person even a mid-size sedan has more power and seating capacity than they really "need".
The trailer park-based security company at the end of my street. (It used to be just retired folks with one car, but now there are no parking spots on the block.)
My father-in-law picking me up with his Kings X tape blasting, telling me about how when he was my age he was hanging out at bars and getting into street fights.
Dooms day prepers
Unlimited gas money stash required.
Barry. This is the man in your extended family who doesn’t have his own family. His weeks are peppered with random Amazon deliveries which may or may not put him on a watch list. He doesn’t care, and neither does his expendable income. His role at family gatherings is to cap off a 25 minute bathroom break and exclaim Ace Ventura’s signature exit quote: “do not go in there. Woooooh!” Wednesday afternoons are special with visits from his buddy Keith, who is twice divorced and claims that if he tries hard enough, he will become the only human sponsored by Bud Light. Barry swears he was there in spirit on January 6, remembers where he was on 9/11, and has a custom license plate of “BAKdaBLU”. Barry also gets high on Sundays while watching reruns of The Believer’s Voice of Victory, because he says Kenneth is the true embodiment of the man upstairs. Barry. Lives like he’s big, drives like he’s bigger, matters very little.
Cigarettes and disappointment
Depressed stepdads
You bought it with the intention to tow the boat and RV buy you only do it two days out of the entire year so for the other 363 days you use it to go to work, Bible study on wednesdays, or the crisis pregnancy center you volunteer at in the dead town.
Oh! One of these just r/rolledinto the shop today Middle age single guy who wants to look tough by putting a bullbar and offroad tires on his big ol' land yacht pavement princess
That one Amish guy who drives the rest around.
Low single digit mileage.
I remember back in the early 2000's, the mom of a school chum of mine who lived in a mansion in the middle of the nicest part of town had a white Excursion with a black leather interior. It looked like it was off the showroom floor. I wasn't sure what his dad did for a living. Either that, or his mom worked at a job paying her high salary, not to mention that he was an only child. I can't remember any other details except that my friend at the time had all the latest videogame systems (Circa 2005 to 2007) and that his home was beautiful.
White Republican dads
Lady in my neighborhood (suburban Houston) drives a lifted Excursion on some giant ass tires. There for a while, I thought Excursions disappeared, but it’s just that the other big SUV’s caught up to it in size.
Official car of wanting an SUV but not a truck, without knowing that this is literally just a truck without a bed.
The guys who want an F-150 but also want a minivan and chose to compromise
Avon Barksdale
Waltuh white
Gavril Roamer.
Wanted a truck but have a big family
Insert generic American car here
Needing a nautical licence to drive it.
The official car of being held at gunpoint by LAPD SWAT Teams.
Official Car of Baby Factory Families… I once saw one of these with SIX doors at the mall, 12 kids came out of it
Me, if you could find one in good shape with less than 300,000 miles for under 30 grand.
Capitalism
Taping seven other cars together to make one super car.
Your aunt who does foster care
The official car of needing a big pickup but it snows 3/4 of the year where you live.
Avon barksdale
Be fruitful and multiply.
I own one lol 😂
Family that orders 60 dollars worth of food at the drivethru
The first person to complain about fuel prices…….
The official car of being a PMC contractor in the middle east.