Editing Ford Excursion (section)

==Reception==
Being launched on September 30, 1999, the 2000 Ford Excursion was described by [[Popular Science]] as the "biggest sport utility on the planet."<ref name="klik.com.my">{{cite web |date=August 9, 1999 |title=Ford Excursion makes a grand debut |url=https://www.klik.com.my/item/story/479106/ford-excursion-makes-a-grand-debut |access-date=June 23, 2022 |website=klik.com.my |agency=Reuters}}</ref><ref name="BBB"/> This would be the most successful model year for the Excursion, with nearly 69,000 examples sold. After essentially meeting sales projections at its launch,<ref name="klik.com.my" /> demand dropped in part because of the [[2000s energy crisis|energy crisis of the 2000s]]. Annual production capacity was 70,000,<ref name="klik.com.my" /> but sales from 2001 barely reach half that number and the model become the lowest-selling SUV marketed by Ford or Lincoln-Mercury.

The large size of the Excursion led to it being dubbed the ''Ford Valdez'' by the [[Sierra Club]] in 1999 (in reference to the ''[[Exxon Valdez]]'' supertanker).<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.sdearthtimes.com/et0399/et0399s4.html |title=Ford's new gas-guzzling SUV wins the 'Exxon Valdez' award from the Sierra Club |work=San Diego Earth Times |access-date=March 7, 2020}}</ref> In 2007, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' selected it as one of the "Fifty Worst Cars of All Time."<ref name="time">{{cite magazine |url= https://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1658544_1658538,00.html |title=The 50 Worst Cars of All Time |date=September 7, 2007 |magazine=Time |access-date=March 7, 2020}}</ref>