Ford Everest Sport 2023 review: snapshot

Step up to the Sport grade in the 2023 Ford Everest range and you’re going to have to pay $69,090 (MSRP), but you’re scoring some big upgrades over the models below it.

The biggest being the 3.0-litre turbo-diesel V6 engine, which comes standard with a 10-speed automatic transmission and four-wheel drive. Towing capacity, across all Everest models, is 750kg for an unbraked trailer, and 3500kg for a braked trailer.

The engine adds power and torque over the bi-turbo models (Ambiente and Trend), with 184kW of power and 600Nm of torque, but it comes at a cost, with official combined fuel consumption pegged at 8.5L/100km.

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You also score extra equipment to help you justify the $3800 extra, including blacked out exterior elements, sports front seats with leather accented trim throughout, heated and cooled front seats, 20-inch alloy wheels and 10-speaker audio system. That’s in addition to keyless entry and push-button start, LED headlights and daytime running lights, a 8.4-inch digital instrument cluster and 12.0-inch touchscreen media system with Apple CarPlay, Android Auto and sat nav.

If you don’t want 20-inch wheels, you can option to choose 18-inch wheels with all-terrain tyres on the Sport model for no extra cost. Sadly you will have to pay extra for a towing kit if you want that - it’s $1750, and includes towbar and integrated brake controller, but really should be standard at this price point.

Like the lower grades the Sport scores lots of safety tech like high speed AEB with pedestrian, cyclist and junction detection, adaptive cruise control, lane keeping assistance, blind spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, low-speed reverse AEB, a reversing camera, and front and rear parking sensors, along with nine airbags including full-length three-row curtain airbag coverage.