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It's a little more clear to say that it comes from the passenger side between the windshield and the hood. Pretty much the same on every car sold today.

Exactly, it's all about dealer stocking. I think it's something like 90% of retail purchases are off the lot, so dealer's need to stock what people want. They can't afford to stock every combination and they certainly don't want a vehicle sitting on their lot for months because it has cloth seats that nobody wants. Maybe they figure only say 2% of Americans would buy cloth seats with Sync 3, but maybe 15% of Canadians would. That would make a big difference if you're a dealer trying to figure out how to equip the ~10 vehicles you keep in stock.

Canadians and Americans are different and they like to buy different things and they have different priorities in how they balance what they spend their money on. Thus the Canadian marketing team (which is 100% separate from the US marketing team) makes adjustments to try to suit the market. This is the same as is done in every other country in the world. The reason you don't understand the logic is because the marketing teams are doing exactly what they are supposed to do. They are giving you - a Canadian - exactly what you want. You shouldn't assume that an American would ever want exactly what you want. Your question really should be "Why do Canadians and Americans want different things?"

It would cost about $2000. It is not worth $2000.

It's not really about traction, it's about yaw control. That's why it's called "vectoring"; when you brake an inside wheel and force power to the outside wheel, the net "vector" of the force is towards the inside of the corner. Stability control by itself only brakes the inside wheel, so you only get half the effect. There isn't really a center diff, it's just the electronically controlled clutch pack in the RDU that cycles on and off that acts as a center diff.

Not true, the torque vectoring system on current Fords will use the brakes in "performance" situations such as powering out of a curve. It looks for throttle input, yaw rate and steering wheel angle, not just wheel slip. A true limited slip or the system in the upcoming RS is better, but the current system does more than you think.

If any automotive plant anywhere in the world had 99.25% first-time-through numbers I would be absolutely shocked.

If you can get 0% financing, there isn't likely to be much incentive to lease and then buy it out. Since the best you can do in a lease is a 0% money factory, the only real advantage is that you defer the tax payments, but with 0% financing, it doesn't really matter anyway. Keep in mind it will be much more difficult to get the 0% financing at the end of the lease because at that point you are trying to finance a used car, not a new one. Also keep in mind there are likely to be some transfer fees when you buy it out, since the ownership has to be changed. Depending on where you live that could result in safety inspections, transfer fees and so on. I leased my current Fusion because the MF in the lease was 0% and the best financing I could get was 1.5%. Even then, with the residual and everything I will still come out a few hundred dollars worse than the financing would have been, but it did essentially let me spread the payments out over 7 years instead of 5. That gave me the flexibility to pay cash for my second vehicle (a used purchase so no good interest rates).

The tranny in your Probe was a Mazda tranny. Just FYI.

You're going to end up at the dealer for programming no matter what you do, but there are plenty of key options on ebay, you don't have to get one with the buttons, you could just get a cheap PATS key, cut it and then have it reprogrammed. It's possible the one from your Fusion could be made to work, there is probably a big part of the cut that is the same and if you're lucky you might be able to just cut out some of the other parts. Hold them up side-by-side to see if there's any chance. I once had a friend open the doors of my dad's 1990 Aerostar with the key from his mom's 1985 Crown Vic.

You can just make up your own numbers to justify your opinions, but the engineers that design the system use real numbers from actual testing. The numbers I've seen are that grill shutters can give around a 0.1 to 0.2MPG improvement. The difference between a 24mpg Edge and a 24.1mpg Edge over 150,000 miles is about 26 gallons or about $65 at $2.50/gallon. That offsets the roughly $45 price of the shutter. Making the Edge out of Aluminum would cost about $1500, so it would need to produce fuel savings 33 times better than the grill shutters. So it would need to save 3.3MPG to be of equal benefit, and that's probably about what it would deliver.

A 245hp engine only needs lots of cooling air when it's making 245hp, and when it is, the grill shutters open up. When cruising down the highway requiring only around 40HP or so, the airflow leaking through and around the shutters is more than enough. It's not like they are simply open or close either, they can be opened at various degrees, so engine temperatures are always right where they need to be. You may never be able to measure the difference from one tank of fuel to the next, but over hundreds of thousands of vehicles driven hundreds of thousands of miles, it absolutely is a significant fuel savings.

It's all about the fuel economy label game. Grill shutters do make a noticeable difference, they can improve the Cd by up to about 0.015, which can be about 5%. But depending on where the rest of the car stacks up, it may not be enough different to flip the fuel economy label. For example if the vehicle is testing at say 23.8 mpg, the grill shutters might bump it up to say 24.3, but either way it still rounds to 24, so there's no real incentive for Ford to spend the ~$50 to install them on that model.

Great for determining where people are taking your car when you're not around. But I don't get drpeppar's point, on my Fusion the breadcrumbs have remained on for only about 30 miles in every version of software I've ever had, including the latest one updated last week. Only on the previous gen system (hard disc pre-MFT system) do they stay on for much longer.

Nope, in fact I've been waiting for a version of Sync that will actually keep the bread crumbs long enough to show my round trip from work. Even with V3.8 I still only get about 30 miles of breadcrumbs. I wish it was like my 2010 MKT that will keep them for about 300 miles.

I once went autocrossing in December, it was just above freezing but the track was actually dry. I ran my race tires (with virtually no tread) while one of my competitors ran his snow tires. Even on the completely dry track, his snow tires were faster than my race tires, just because the tread compound is designed to work better at lower temperatures. (To be fair, even in the summer he was faster than me on his race tires, but the difference was basically the same). Bottom line, snow tires make a big, big, big difference. Bigger than any other factor that you could have on a vehicle.

AWD won't help you stop faster. Snow tires will.

Of course they know all of this stuff, they just don't have any budget to make the appropriate changes. If you want to pay more taxes, you can have the government make changes.

That is a new system that isn't yet available on any Ford's in North America. The 2015 Edge doesn't have adaptive headlamps, the MKX does though.

I agree, likely a vehicle battery that needs replacing.

There have been several posts about this on other boards where people just inadvertently turned it off. Have you tried turning it on with the button on the steering wheel stalk?

If you haven't tested out the obstacle detection feature, make sure you do. Then you won't be so scared.

Every MFT Ford has a GPS antenna and all the hardware for Navigation. The only difference is the software settings and they can only be changed if you have a special "unlocking" tool. Putting a unit from a wrecked Edge into yours won't work as it will know that the VIN numbers don't match.

TPMS sensors only send out signals once every 2 minutes, not continuously, so the batteries will last a long time.

There's even an update available for my 2010 MKT (finally). It's actually the first update available for that vehicle since it was built. But don't get too excited, because clearly Ford only cars about Sync III...