Ford Explorer Curb Weight: 4,458 lbs to 4,969 lbs

With a 3.0L EcoBoost with Class III Trailer Tow Package configuration, the 2026 Explorer is rated to pull 5,600 lbs — 1.1 times the 4,969 lbs the heaviest recorded truck weighs by itself, and 1.3 times the 4,458 lbs of the lightest.

That rating belongs to the 3.0L EcoBoost with Class III Trailer Tow Package build, not to every truck on this page: a 4dr SUV Hybrid starts 511 lbs deeper into the combined rating than a 4dr SUV before a trailer is coupled.

Ranked on the lightest configuration of each nameplate, the Explorer is 15 of 81 in Standard Sport Utility Vehicle 4WD, 580 lbs below the 5,038 lbs median and lighter than 66 of its peers.

Identical body, 511 lbs apart: the 4dr SUV Hybrid records 4,969 lbs against 4,458 lbs for the 4dr SUV, a 11.5% increase carried by the battery, the second motor and the heavier transmission case.

The lightest 2015 record is 4,557 lbs; the lightest 2026 record is 4,458 lbs — 99 lbs lighter (2.2%).

At the top of the range the 2026 file reaches 4,969 lbs against 4,731 lbs in 2015, a 238 lbs increase — driven by which configurations exist, not by the same truck gaining mass.

The published 17.9-gallon tank holds about 109 lbs of gasoline at 6.1 lb per gallon, and curb weight is measured with it full. Run it to empty and the 4dr SUV Hybrid is effectively a 4,860 lbs vehicle — 2.2% of the figure quoted above is fuel you will burn off.

NHTSA records a 50/50 distribution, so the 4,458 lbs splits to roughly 2,229 lbs on the front axle and 2,229 lbs on the rear.