The 2004 Ford Excursion will be the last model of the controversial sport utility vehicle, a Detroit television station reports. The six-metre, nine-passenger SUV, which needs 20 litres of gas to ...

A 2005 Excursion only averages about 12 mpg, so it's easy to put the pieces together and see why this ended up being an expensive — and extremely large — vehicle to drive around.

Ford offered the Excursion with a 5.4-liter Triton V8 or even the 6.8-liter Triton V10. But you could also get it with a diesel. Early Excursions had the legendary 7.3-liter Power Stroke V8. Later ...