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  2. Wives and girlfriends....

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    21 hours ago, David Young said:

     

     

    Thank you. :) My Dad bought it new and I could use it anytime I wanted to. He didn't put many miles on it. He died 10 years ago and I took over his truck :( . In the 10 years I've had it, I have put on only around 5,000 miles..........

    Always loved these big American pick-ups. Unfortunately we have fewer than a 1,000 of the F-150 over here  - the roads and parking spaces are just not big enough!

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  4. Ford Endura down-under

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    We have the Ford Edge in North America, Europe and the Middle East but in Australia and New Zealand it's called the Ford Endura (apparently the Edge name was already being used by another manufacturer).

    Do we have any Endura owners down-under who are members of this forum? It would be great to hear from you and see some pics of your cars.

     

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  5. Wives and girlfriends....

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    Posted · Edited by niceonept

    15 hours ago, 1004ron said:

    If you're in Indiana you won't need a passport to travel the London I was referring to - London KY, not London Canada.

     

    I always knew there were lots of Kentuckys* in London but not that there was a London in Kentucky!image.thumb.png.204e899ae98cde2e51e069e3ba51e267.png

    * a KFC restaurant is commonly referred to as a "Kentucky" in the UK

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  12. Wives and girlfriends....

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    Posted · Edited by niceonept

    11 hours ago, enigma-2 said:

    Wow! Nice garage.

    I was going to say that, but then thought maybe most American garages were as neat as that. That floor is amazing. Mine is concrete, less than half the size and with a couple of coats of cheap Ronseal garage floor paint!

  13. Only 20 or so cars on the lot

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    On 7/3/2021 at 7:36 PM, CrackedDSM said:


    Ford apparently. 

    Ford have assembly plants in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, India, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, USA, Venezuela and Vietnam as well as in Mexico.

    Why would they (and how could they) possibly close all of them to produce vehicles only in Mexico??

  17. Wives and girlfriends....

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    13 hours ago, pintokid said:

    The Edge is my wife's car. I've got a 2011 Camaro. We both like red. Here is a photo next to my son's Mustang.

     

    Great cars. Unfortunately the only Chevy available over here is the Corvette Stingray and that's in LHD only. You can now get RHD Mustangs, but at prices starting at £45k ($62,000) a bit too expensive for me. One day maybe, but in the meantime I'm very happy to have my Edge.

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  19. "Soccer Mum SUV"

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    On 7/6/2021 at 2:29 PM, circatee said:

    Honestly, I have a few people that constantly mention my ST, as a "Soccer Mum SUV". 

    Talk about annoying. I had to tell one individual to basically be quiet. Also had to remind them that my ST pushes 335HP, versus their car.

     

    Anyway, just venting... 

    As a Brit surely you mean "football mum"?

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  21. I've started to hate my ST

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    20 hours ago, Vanquished said:

    This should probably be put in "owner impressions" section

     

    Didn't take long. It's all the little things that add up to me hating the car. 

     

    Let's start with the immediate cause for me writing this: WHY DO THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS HAVE TO MOVE EVERY DAMN TIME YOU TURN THE CAR ON. I made the mistake of turning the car on with the wipers up after washing it and now I have two beautiful chips on my hood. Or maybe I should ask why Ford designed wipers/hood that the wiper arms hit the hood? Had the same problem on my Focus from eight years ago, how have they not learned? 

     

    Next, I hate the stop/start, it doesn't work and it has caused me to mess up my steering wheel by the car still being off when I was sitting in traffic and I went to turn the wheel. Features like this that save exactly zero gallons of gas should be neither seen nor heard, if you can't make it that way, don't put it on the car.

     

    Speaking of fuel mileage, my car gets garbage fuel mileage, what is the point of having a tiny complex ecoboost engine if it gets just as bad fuel economy as anything else? My Challenger got better highway mileage than this, despite being a brick and having an engine from the stone ages that had more than double the displacement, and despite me driving that like a muscle and driving the edge like a minivan. 

     

    The USB port does not recognize my USB stick with music on it immediately (didn't have this issue in ANY of the four straight dodges I owned, my brother has a mustang and says he has the issue as well) and the car is too stupid to hold off on playing anything until it does, so it switches to the radio and then I have to manually switch it back every time. Again, been eight years since my Focus but Sync is no better... 

     

    Why does Ford insist on telling us what's good for us? Why is there no option to turn off the double honk with door closed and engine on? We know the option exists, why does Ford refuse to let us control the thing we spent tens of thousands of dollars on?

     

    The fake engine noise and/or noise cancelling is awful. Like another user mentioned and I have mentioned before, you can hear an awful noise under acceleration. It doesn't sound like the engine, it doesn't sound like a turbo (at least in my case), it sounds like static. I have yet to figure out a single instance where I desired to have the piped in audio, how do they sell a car without the option of turning it off? 

     

    Next segway, sound. Why did they release a car with an ST badge that has not an ounce of an exhaust note? Neighbor's Mazda CX-5 makes a better sound than my supposed performance SUV...

     

    And finally, performance. How did Ford manage to take a car with 380ft-lb of torque and 335 hp and make it feel so dead? Why is that the BMW X5 which has less power is almost a full second faster than our Edge ST to 60mph? I supposedly have performance brakes but it sure doesn't feel that way, the SUV weighs basically the same as my Charger or Challenger Scat Packs did and they had skinnier tires but they stopped on a dime... 

    It kills me because the Edge ST looks great but it's ruined by stupid engineering decisions (or maybe they're nanny-state decisions). I regret so much that Dodge pissed me off so much with a noisy steering wheel that it sent me over to Ford, I really do. Idk what my next car will be but it won't be a Ford. I'm sure the majority of my complaints are brand-wide, not simple Edge ST complaints. 

     

    Sounds like you should have bought the European version! Other than having less BHP the 210PS European version has none of these faults.

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