Re:Tesla envy grips Germany’s giants
by foobarian on Monday September 05, 2016 @04:27PM
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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.
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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.