akirby

Cue the wagon mafia.........

I've been changing my own oil for 25 years including current 06, 08 and 12 vehicles and I have yet to even come close to stripping threads on the oil plug. Maybe if you used an impact wrench......

Agreed.

That might have helped a little but not nearly enough. The business case was wrong from the beginning as far as volumes and potential markets. Had it been able to use the mod 4.6L V8 it would have helped a lot more. That Jag V8 was super sweet but also super expensive and power limited in N/A form.

Fusion ST - I'm betting we'll see it within 18 months.

You cannot get a fully loaded Fusion with the 2.5L engine. It's only available in the S and Base SE model (203A). It's not available with the Luxury, Appearance or luxury driver assist packages on the SE. You might want to check the latest order guide in post 153.

Says who?

If you're talking about the fender mounted side mirrors - they didn't all have that feature.

I think Ford underestimated the complexity of mft hardware and software and totally mishandled their suppliers. We can only hope they're learning and won't repeat these mistakes.

There is nothing wrong with pointing out problems that you're having and you're not the one with the issue here. As others have pointed out there has to be bad APIMs out there that need to be replaced. One owner had their APIM replaced with no improvement, then had a 3rd APIM put in and that one resolved the problem. Keep complaining until you get stable hardware or a software upgrade that fixes the problem. Pulling a fuse is only a short term workaround.

Not definitively but Ford didn't offer a police package five hundred from the factory either. If you wanted a Taurus outfitted with light bars and push bars then it wouldn't make sense to take a regular Taurus (new) and convert it when you could just buy one already made. That was my point.

That's where it is on the current Focus. Not sure about the Escape but it wouldn't surprise me since it's Focus based.

Consider this: nobody here has ever told somebody that said they had MFT problems that their problems were not real. Nobody. EVER. We've never said there weren't bugs in MFT. There are. We've admitted this OVER and OVER. Nobody has claimed that MFT is bug free or that there weren't also some hardware problems. You got your panties in a wad because the "performance upgrade" didn't meet YOUR expectations of perfection so now anyone who doesn't agree with you is either lying or just being ignorant. Why do you believe that 71% of MFT owners would recommend the system to others if it was as bad as you say it is? Please explain that one.

You're not paying attention (or you're purposely diverting - hard to tell). If the government sold all their stock there would still be a $16B shortfall at GM. Why should GM be allowed to keep profits while the government is $16B in the red. Unless you're proposing that GM buys back the stock at $53/share which would make the government whole - in that case I agree that would be the right thing to do. It will never ever happen though. If GM had actually gone out of business or wasn't making a profit right now that would be different. You could at least call that a failed investment. But the company ony did some downsizing. They never stopped manufacturing vehicles. Legally a GM car built in 2007 was built by a different company (old GM, not new GM). And what about all of the old GM stockholders who got screwed? It should have been a loan to be paid back in full and the old shareholders should have gotten new shares and there should not a "new GM" and "old GM". Period.

Somebody explain to me why GM should be allowed to keep all of their current profits while WE (the government) gets stiffed for $25B?

The best part was when they took the same banana, cut it in half and told people one half was organic and the other wasn't. Hilarious!

Wow. Record sales months for 2 cars on sale less than a year and one on sale for only 2 years. What an accomplishment.......

According to who besides you?

See - this is the part where you weren't paying attention. IA fobs don't use push buttons. They work just like the RFID system you linked to. You keep the fob in your pocket and it unlocks the door as you approach. Get in and hit the start button and you're off. Just like you described. So Ford already has the system you want - it just uses a fob instead of a RFID credit card. And RFID cards still use batteries just like the fobs. It's right there in your link - or did you not bother to read it? It says the battery should last a year. Go read the link you posted and see if the RFID card has a battery that requires annual replacement. Then get back to me about who's paying attention and who isn't.

?? 1. Chevy 2. Buick 3. GMC 4. Cadillac

You don't pay attention, do you? I think the current IA fob and push button works fine and should be optional on all vehicles. I just don't think it should automatically start or stop the engine.

Now I can choose whether to leave the car running or turn it off. It depends on what I'm doing. The point of using the IA fob is that you don't have to take it out of your pocket. The problem is what I described earlier - what if the fob falls out of your pocket and stays in the car? You go inside, meanwhile the car is still running and the doors are unlocked. You have to account for unexpected behavior when you automate something. What's the problem with pushing the button to turn the vehicle off and on as needed with auto lock and unlock?

It's supposed to make money? Who knew?

Try to focus........I fully support push button start. I think it should be available on all vehicles (but not standard on all vehicles). What I DON'T agree with is automatically shutting it off when you leave the vehicle.

It does say you can lock the doors with the keypad OR another fob so I would assume the other fob could still unlock the doors.