2026 Ford Everest Tremor Review

The Everest is already one of the best large four-wheel-drive wagons you can buy in Australia. The Tremor takes that and pushes it further off the tarmac, with proper off-road hardware fitted from the factory. Mary spent a week in it to work out whether the tougher setup is worth the jump to nearly $80,000 before on-road costs, or whether you should just buy a Toyota Prado.

The short version: the Tremor is seriously capable, and the compromise it asks for is smaller than you might expect.

What the Tremor adds

Under the bonnet is Ford's 3.0 litre V6 turbo-diesel as standard, making 184 kW and 600 Nm through a 10-speed automatic and full-time four-wheel drive. That is the engine Everest buyers want, and here you do not have to option up to get it.

The Tremor money buys the off-road gear: Bilstein position-sensitive dampers, General Grabber all-terrain tyres, extra ground clearance, underbody protection and dedicated off-road drive modes. Crucially, none of it costs you the things that make an Everest an Everest. You still get seven seats, a 3,500 kg braked towing rating and a boot and cabin that work for a family.

On the road

This is where the trade-off lives, and it is milder than the spec sheet suggests. The all-terrain tyres add a little road noise at highway speed and the softer off-road tune lets the body move a touch more through corners. It is not sharp, but no seven-seat diesel four-wheel-drive is, and the Bilstein dampers actually keep the ride settled over broken country roads better than the standard car.

Around town it is big, as they all are, but the visibility is good, the steering is light enough to park, and the V6 makes easy, quiet progress. Fuel use sits around 9.5 L/100km, which for a 2.5 tonne wagon towing nothing is reasonable.

Off the road

This is the point of the thing, and the Tremor delivers. The extra clearance, the all-terrain rubber and the underbody protection turn tracks that would have the standard Everest picking its line into a non-event. For a family that actually leaves the bitumen at weekends, this is the Everest to have, and it does it without a second-hand-tyre-shop aftermarket bill.

Cartell Assessment

The Tremor is the Everest for people who genuinely go bush and want it to come from the factory sorted, under warranty, without a build sheet of aftermarket parts. It keeps the seven seats and the towing, adds real capability, and gives up very little on the road to get there.

The catch is the price. At $79,990 before on-road costs it runs close to a Prado and into serious money, and if you never leave the tarmac you are paying for hardware you will not use. Buy it for what it does off the road, not as a badge, and it makes sense.

AU Outlook

The Everest Tremor lands at $79,990 plus on-road costs, in a large four-wheel-drive segment that is suddenly crowded with the new Toyota Prado, the Isuzu MU-X and the Mitsubishi Pajero Sport. Against that field the Tremor's factory off-road package and the standard V6 diesel are its strongest cards. Watch the drive-away deals, because this is a segment where Ford and Toyota trade blows on price through the year.