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Recently I moved my family to the 'burbs and needed a car after 5 city years without one. I did not buy a Ford Flex - an otherwise perfect and very desirable 7
by scrumper 12y ago
Recently I moved my family to the 'burbs and needed a car after 5 city years without one. I did not buy a Ford Flex - an otherwise perfect and very desirable 7 seat family car - simply because of its horrid touchscreen. In every other way it was brilliant, but I just couldn't do it.
Ford's recent models are truly excellent cars (I've rented many Tauruses, Explorers, and Fusions over the last couple of years), but they were all utterly ruined by that dreadful system with its awful, ugly, laggy console you're forced to use for everything that isn't actually driving.
Good on them for moving on.
- sswaner 12y agoI agree, I remember the first time I had the option to rent a Ford and was excited to try out Sync. It is horrible. For me, the test was to pair my phone before I left the rental car garage. Ford was the most difficult compared to Nissan, Chevy, Dodge and Toyota.
- scrumper 12y agoI never once got that to work (Blackberry or iPhone). The USB port did charge the phone though. I did manage to get music from an iPhone through the USB port, but that was on an Expedition which has a different system (and it also only worked sporadically, requiring lots of re-plugging). Such a crying shame. Since the company moved to the global platform and started making ROW-quality cars in the USA, I've been so impressed. They look good, drive well, ride comfortably, have good engines, have fantastic interiors (by mass-market US standards)... Then you go to turn up the AC and you realize that the rotting turd in the center console means that Ford hates you.