akirby

Why do you keep lumping rental fleet with non rental fleet? They are entirely different things.

Go to Build and Price. Select Titanium. See if you can find an option for a stand alone backup camera. If you can't then it doesn't exist. If you can then it does exist. It will only take 5 minutes and you'll have the definitive answer. Nobody has much experience with a 2013 Escape so the only way for us to answer your question is to do what I just described.

6k virtual servers say yes, it IS working.

Why don't you go to Ford.com and research it yourself? No need to rely on what the dealer tells you - the information is readily available. It does appear that the salesman is correct at least on the SEL.

10? I assume they're counting the CTS as 3 (sedan, coupe, wagon)? ATS, XTS and flagship make 6. Escalade, SRX. That's 8. Volt is 9. Compact crossover is 10?

My daughter's focus has one. It's a little annoying but very easy to take off and put back on even with the front wheels on ramps in the driveway.

The first Tivo DVR was built on a linux kernel (and still is AFAIK). Stable as a rock. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is very stable and on a x86 virtualized infrastructure is rapidly replacing Solaris, HP-UX and AIX in corporate computing. The only drawback right now is a limited max server size due to x86 limitations.

It's optional but I don't understand the point.

This isn't good.

I knew somebody would say that. Touche!

Go to the Ford website and you can compare models to see what options are or are not available. Or you can go to the Build and Price feature and that will show you what's available or not available on a specific model.

They must be short on hybrid parts (batteries or tranny) and are purposely trying to limit hybrid sales. It doesn't make any sense to me not to at least have push button start on the hybrid.

I agree with you and I support gay marriage. I just don't believe that it should be a political issue. And if the religious right wasn't pushing to ban gay marriage then it wouldn't be a political issue. And if it wasn't a political issue then maybe we could find some common ground and stop all this bipartisan bickering.

Why is gay marriage an important issue? What does it have to do with running the federal government? The more the right rails against it the more the left rails against the right and it takes focus away from the really important issues like government spending.

GM and Dodge need to stop using those awful rental car grey plastic interiors.

Winner winner chicken dinner!!!!!!

This is what my county does with SPLOSTs (SPecial Local Option Sales Tax). We vote on a 1% sales tax increase with a specified period and expiration date and a specific list of projects that the money can be spent on - period. Taxes should be used to pay for goverment expenses - not as a punishment or a tool to rob from the rich and give to the poor. But when you're jealous of other people's wealth and you have a victim's mentality that allows you to convince yourself that your circumstances are not your fault - or you're a savvy politician who gets votes by convincing people of that you lose sight of the true purpose of taxes.

It's never as simple as you are making it out to be. Let's say Ford knew the grille was going to fail after 3 months BUT they had already cancelled supplies of the old grille and they did not have time to create new ones. So the only choice they had was to sell them with the bad grille and fix them later OR stop selling the vehicle altogether for 3-4 months. In that case which would you choose? The 2011 Edge had terrible MFT problems. Where is it now sales-wise? The average buyer doesn't even know about stuff like this and some who do know don't care. It's never a good thing but it rarely hurts overall sales. In fact I'd be willing to bet that Ford gained more buyers just due to MFT than they lost due to quality problems.

Let me ask this again - what problem would switching to coil springs be solving on the new F150 exactly?

Ok, I'll buy that.

If it's patriotic to pay more taxes to lower the debt, then I suppose it's unpatriotic to spend recklessly to run up the debt in the first place?

I think city fuel economy will improve much faster than highway. A brick is still a brick.

There is a car in those ads? Really?

If you're getting axle wrap and wheel hop in a F150 then you should probably be driving a mustang GT instead.

And since ride quality has never been a complaint with the current F150 (at least not that I've ever heard) - I don't see the point.