irishtom

You guys should get 30" wheels, you know, so your Edge can look like a Model T.

Sorry, but IMO V-6s sound like Hell, they're better kept quiet. Straight 4s sound better and of course nothing sounds better than a V-8. I enjoy my V-6 Edge for what it does, not what it can't do---sound good.

I consider my Edge a station wagon not an SUV or a "crossover" (a term I consider market talk intended to make a genre of car considered uncool into a cool one). It sure as Hell isn't a truck. My new 2013 Limited has the 20" wheels but I liked the 18s on my 2007 Edge SEL better; the 20s are too big, awkward looking, style over substance, too flashy. But they were on the car and I like everything else about it. The way these stupid big wheels are going pretty soon cars are gonna look like Model Ts again.

I find the stock subwoofer in my new Limited quite adequate and natural sounding and I wonder about the needs of those who find it inadequate. This coming from an old Rock and Roll drummer and bass player and audiophile of over 45 years. In my house I used a bi-amped Altec A5 VOT system (with tubes on the compression drivers of course) augmented below 100 hz with a pair of JBL Pro 4648 motion picture theater bassbins, so it's not like I listen to little girl with guitar music. I listen to Rock and Roll, Soul, Show Tunes, movie scores (I'm very keen on Rosza, Korngold, Tiomkin and Herrman) and Classical, usually lossless files of Mercury Living Presence and RCA Living Stereo recordings, often of Fritz Reiner and the CSO. Of course audio is a subjective hobby but you need to understand a person's needs and tastes when evaluating their opinions and advice.

The other day, coming home from Florida to Chicago my wife and I tired of our 2012 Focus SEL and in Lexington Kentucky traded it in on a new Edge Limited. The MFT on the Edge works much better than in the Focus; less command steps for some tasks and the unit in general "understands" better. The screen is also closer to the driver and easier to see and reach than with the Focus I'm quite pleased with the latest MFT. As for the car itself, ahhh, very nice. And somewhat quicker and quiter than the 2007 Edge SEL we traded in on the Focus.

Looks like a waste of time and money. I'd rather save for some 22" wheels so my Edge can look like a Model T.

Your rig? I call mine the "car". Anyway my shifter is smooth, no clunkin' or anything. 07 with 8000 miles.

Well regardless of what the state calls the thing I call it a car. I traded in an F-150 with stick-shift, crank windows and a rubber floor for my Edge, THAT was a truck.

Increase in gas mileage eh? And so simple. I doubt it. If it were that easy Ford would do it themselves and sell more cars. Reminds me of the magic Fish carb that GM supposedly repressed at the behest of the oil companies. Of course in reality GM could care less what's good for the oil companies, they're in business to sell cars and good mileage sells cars.

Man, towing an Edge behind a Winnebago, what a drag (pun intended). I'd drive the Edge and stay in hotels. I love driving and traveling but I'd hate driving a Winnebago.

Ahh, an old Oldsmobile fan.

In the 1950s and 60s. Consider the Chevy Nomad or that in 1965 one could order a Chevrolet Bel-Air wagon with a 425HP 396, 4-speed and a handling suspension. In any event styling is subjective. I define a station wagon as a car (and the Edge IS a car not a truck) with no trunk but storage behind the passengers in the passenger compartment and with a straight roof line running back to a tailgate or liftgate. The main difference between my Edge and my daughter's Focus wagon is that the Edge is a little bigger and a lot fancier but in basic structure and function they're the same kind of thing.

Evidently they do now being that the Edge is a station wagon.

My wife hated driving and riding in my 06 F-150, a basic work truck with a 6 cylinder and stick shift, rubber floors, crank windows. I liked it though for it's simplicity and honesty. So anyway we decided to get a station wagon and the Edge fit the bill---very sharp styling, excellent ride and handling, good pick-up, fun to drive. We got a loaded one with leather, heated seats, sunroof and so on and it got me over my Cadillac CTS envy: we had an 05 CTS which we traded in last year on a Saab convertible and I really missed the CTS. The Edge is nicely comparable to the CTS in feel and, oh I dunno, All American style koolness. The Saab is nice but not cool, know what I mean? Kind of a metrasexual's car. Today my wife took the Edge and I'm stuck with the Saab. The Saab is supposed to be "her" car.

It's not a problem, it's the way the thing works. Sensibly too. And the trans is so smooth and the ratios so close I hardly notice the downshift unless I'm looking at the tach.