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I like the ability to recover energy, but I LOVE reducing the maintenance on the friction brakes, and making the pads and rotors last longer. Not to mention in slippery conditions regen braking is a lot safer than friction braking.

So I guess they finally feel the need to market it? Up until now it pretty much sold itself.

The AWD system also uses a heavier and more complex rear suspension that actually can't handle quite as much payload as the FWD version, but rides better (I speak from long experience). In some way both are true. The electric motor gives the hybrid system amazing low-end torque from...

Mine changed by itself too. Both of them.

I can...if doing a lot of downhill. I do try to keep it at 70 on the highway. Here in the Northeast speed limits generally top out at 65 anyway. I know some of the wide-open midwestern states you can go a lot faster.

Well my time isn't that valuable when I'm doing my biweekly hauls to Jersey City and back. I can afford the 10 extra minutes each way, especially since there's always some traffic somewhere alone the way anyway.

It's not really an issue. It's a matter of consciously driving in a seat that benefits the hybrid power train and increases MPG. The actual EPA city cycle really doesn't.

Naah. It's worth the extra gas to keep the wife from complaining that it's too cold. ;)

They charge extra for driving a hybrid? What's the logic there?

Yeah, hybrids don't necessarily heat well. The batteries are too small to rely on purely electric heat, and they tend not to have heat pumps, so they rely on the engine to generate heat. They seem to do a lot better running the (electric) air conditioning all the time.

it's actually pretty ugly-sounding when you put your foot into it. Not gonna lie there, it's not fun. On the other hand, 100% torque from 0 RPM is something that has to be felt to be believed, it's really that amazing. And while people complain about not enough power, that's usually what...

You're leaving power on the table, but the hybrid gives you more low end torque, and the start/stop system is a lot less annoying on the hybrid since you don't actually need to start the engine to start moving. So there's trade offs each way. You can actually overthink it, but I wouldn't. The...

Balikbayan boxes are Phillipine repatriation boxes. And overseas Filipinos are very VERY good at packing them as densely as physically possible. They get...heavy. :wink:

I wonder if they'll become collector's editions, like a rare misprint or something. I ended up with one.

There's always the cheap plastic.

Granted, it's #1 of a total of 2. :wink:

I think they only provided blue LEDs for the ambient anyway, but year, it seems to be blue, period. The way my dealer explained it, it's blue because that's Ford's corporate color...if that's so they don't know how to color match. I think they just cheaped out and only wanted to use one LED and...

I honestly don't mind that the plastic is cheap junk that's going to get easily scuffed and scratched. It's an interior. It gets used. It's going to get scuffed and scratched anyway. A nicer interior would probably break my heart when it got scuffed and scratched. Except the piano black stuff...

Whatever you get, get it from Truxedo/RealTruck. I have a soft tri-fold (which Ford likely bought from RealTruck, slapped a Ford logo on, and then doubled the price) which I like because it's very easy to operate, light, and easy to remove. I bought the TruxSport Soft Roll-up for my wife's...

They were probably going to call the Delta Flyer a Mustang but probably couldn't get Ford to sign off on it. :crackup: Supposedly one of the characters in Voyager was a big fan of 20th century hot-rodding