Re:Tesla envy grips Germany’s giants
by WalterBright on Monday September 05, 2016 @04:19PM
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I'm the former owner of two Mercedes cars. I won't buy another because their engineering quality is poor, as well as being anti home mechanic. I'm much happier with my Ford I've owned for 25 years and is very well engineered, easy and friendly for a home mechanic to repair, and inexpensive to repair. It also has had an order of magnitude fewer random problems than Mercedes.
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Getting off topic but I was pleased how easy it was to tinker around with a recent-ish Ford Escape (2014). Mostly standardized size screws, rivets and body clips throughout the body. Easily accessible service guides/manuals. It's too bad about their head unit system (Sync) but I hear it got better after 2015.
I have a 2015 Fusion, and I agree the car is excellent and, alas, Sync is pretty dire.
Being Ford, natch, it's impossible to upgrade the Sync that shipped with the car with whatever they're shipping now, which I also heard is much better. My $500 tablet I can upgrade, my $30000 car I cannot.
To me the huge draw of Tesla is that the company actually seems to understand how computers work. Tesla updates their computers over-the-air. Meanwhile, Ford wants to charge me $150 to mail me a SD card, hah.