Imitator?

[Scott Larson]

The VX's system senses wheel-slip and shifts torque to the wheels with traction. That's the computer controlled part of the equation that the Explorer doesn't have. If the Explorer had lockers front and rear it might be a different story but alas, such is not the case.

[vt_maverick]

The VX's system senses wheel-slip and shifts torque to the wheels with traction. That's the computer controlled part of the equation that the Explorer doesn't have. If the Explorer had lockers front and rear it might be a different story but alas, such is not the case.

That's not the case based on the article - the entire development process is described as targeting wheel-slip sensing and torque vectoring from the mid-80s forward. If you mean side-to-side vectoring the Explorer probably didn't have that, but then again I've never seen my TOD lights show different power levels between the left and right sides.

Also the VX doesn't have front and rear lockers either.