Lol.

We own an explorer & I was just about to jump on here and rave about how much I love it until I read through til the end of your post

We have the top of the range one 2003 model - ours is an imported one though, as everything (such as blinkers etc) is back to front.
It looks like the cars on the tv show 24... can you tell I'm a girly girl - not into the details much, sorry!
7 seats though

Ours is dual fuel, so gas & unleaded petrol, I just run it on gas around close by, but we've used the fuel on a few long trips.

I absolutely LOVE it to death - maybe you got a bad one?