Rental Car Ruckus 2: Electric Boogaloo

[ViPER1313]

Got a free upgrade to a 2011 Explorer Limited down here in West Palm. MUCH to like here. Ford has really stepped up their game.

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They do look pretty good though.

Ford is getting killed in reliability ratings because of Sync (mostly idiot users not knowing how to use the system) and people's perceptions of "smoothness" issues with Ford's new DSG (which are fair - supposedly it isn't a very smooth / quick shifting unit.) The article even alludes to this, although it's not as catchy of a headline as "Ford falls...."

Car and Driver had an article a few months back that explained how these ratings are gathered. Very little of it has to do with things that car people would consider "reliability" issues - most of it is very open to owner interpretation. For example, excessive brake dust on front wheels is a defect :evileye: - subsequently, Porsche's "reliability" took a huge hit when they went to carbon ceramic brakes on many models :dunno: