Awesome in this case you are really lucky; did you play Lotto by any chance? ?

Sounds it was pretty easy taken care of. That they replaced the whole stick shift doesn't surprise me. Right after I took delivery almost 3 years ago the plastic knobs for the battery door in the trunk fell off and they had to order the entire trunk liner just to get the two knobs replaced.

Smart man! ;)

This is why I did not buy MFT with Nav.
 
I use Google Maps Navigation.

I think that proper pulse and glide driving (like anything, as long is it is done in a reasonable manner) benefits the traffic flow. In Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt, which is a fascinating book about peoples' driving habits there is much discussion about the fact that, while in traffic, acceleration then rapid deceleration sends ripples backwards, which has an overall slowing effect to the flow of traffic. Here is a good explanation I found of the best driving habits to manage the most efficient traffic flow:
 
Cars have brakes that are much more powerful than their engine, and will diminish speed fives times faster than it can build it up again. Therefore, once traffic becomes stuck and stands still, the traffic would take five times more than it was standing still to return to the same free flow speed before the traffic jam. If all drivers tried to drive like you (and me) by crawling along steadily through the jam, they would dissolve the jam.
In practice, people are in a hurry and are afraid that another driver will take up the space in front, so they immediately accelerate, only to brake not 50 meters later. This makes the jam move in "waves" that run against the direction of traffic and this costs in gas consumption, rear-end "fender-bender" collisions and a lot of nerves and wasted time.

Instead, follow these guidelines:

1. Maintain a safe following distance while driving (at least two full seconds)
2. Drive at the speed of traffic and keep right
3. Look far ahead and anticipate the need to slow down in advance
4. Slow down early and gently and try to avoid stopping completly
5. In the jam, maintain the gap and accelerate gently to keep on moving steadily through the jam.
 
This description is inadvertently describing pulse and glide (with the exception of #5 - the acceleration should be somewhat brisk up to the coasting speed). The best driving habits for maximizing fuel economy in a hybrid parallel the best driving habits for maximizing traffic efficiency for all the cars on the road.

This past week I celebrated my one year anniversary with Ginger. I have to say this car has been everything I wanted and more.
 
Before I get into a more thorough 'review' lemme update my mileage since the job/commute change. As I feared, the mpg has plummeted with the combination of short drive and cold weather. As I post this it is currently 1 degree outside. Fahrenheit. While this has been a fairly mild winter there have been plenty of cold mornings and I still use the remote start to warm it up. With only a six mile drive to work, unless I let the remote start run for 10-15 minutes, the engine never fully warms up so I rarely go into EV mode. I have optimized my driving for the route I take (the highway route) and know where it's best to coast, best to brake, and even best to step on it. I imagine that when summer comes around I'll tweak this further as the engine will be warmed up by the time I get to the highway.
 
The beautiful thing about this short commute is just how little gas I use. Even with stunningly low mpg, I only had to fill up twice since my last post in December. For roughly two months of driving I've spent about $40.
 
 
OK. My thoughts on the 2015 Ford Fusion Hybrid Titanium (Ginger) after one year of use. Fuelly (which I am addicted to now!) claims I have achieved 40.2 mpg. Ginger claims I have achieved 42.5 mpg. Either way I couldn't be happier. Well... I COULD be happier, but I'm very satisfied by those numbers. No one would mistake me for a hypermiler, but I do practice good braking to recoup as much energy as possible and I do accelerate less forcefully than I used to.
 
The only options Ginger lacks is the Adaptive Cruise Control and the Self Parking. I have yet to be in a situation where I would want the Self Parking so there's no loss there as far as I'm concerned, but I do wish I had got the ACC. I absolutely love driving people around as I can amaze almost anybody with all the bells and whistles. From the auto high beams, to the rain sensing wipers. From voice activated Sync, to the lane keeping assist. From the key fob never leaving my pocket, to the two way remote start. My brother got a new Chevy Traverse with all the bells and whistles and he's still jealous of Ginger. A friend of mine owns a Chevy Volt and beyond the fact that he doesn't really use gas, he's jealous of Ginger. And beyond impressing others, I get enjoyment out of just about every feature. I love talking to my radio instead of fiddling around with the knobs. I love never having to worry about turning on the lights or even bothering with the brights. I love that Ginger gives me a nudge with the steering when I'm 'bumping' the lane instead of beeping at me. I love walking out of work with my coworkers and knowing that my car has turned on, while they are all rushing to the windows to see if their remote starts actually turned their car on. I love having toasty warm seats and even more I adore having my steering wheel warm enough to grip comfortably. I love having cooled seats in the summer. I love leaving the windshield wipers 'on' and having them only operate when necessary. I even love MFT.
 
A word about MFT. Yes, it's slow. Yes, the screen isn't very receptive to touch. Yes, it's a fingerprint magnet. But I really do like the way it looks. I find the black background is very pleasing and easy to read both in the daylight and at night. It's operation is straight forward and with the four way home screen it displays just about all the information I'd want out of a combination entertainment/HVAC display. I rarely use navigation so I can't compare how good it is compared to my phone or a garmin, but when I need/want it it's a joy to press a button and set everything up via voice without ever taking my eyes off the road. "Navigation. Destination. POI...." so on and so forth.
 
Speaking of displays, I really like the dashboard displays. I have the left side of my screen displaying the Empower style guage as well as my trip odometer. I don't use the fuel guage as the 'miles to empty' has been good enough for me. The right side of the dash is almost always fuel economy graph in 6 minute intervals. At a glance I can get all the information I'm after. When I'm on a trip and not just commuting or banging around town I switch the right hand screen to the turn by turn directions from the Nav system. Again, at a glance I get the information I need... how many miles to the next turn and which way I'll be turning.
 
I absolutely adore the exterior styling. That sleek grille, those swooping body lines, those wonderfully brilliant cat's eye tail lights. it all adds up to a beauty of a car.
 
I absolutely adore the interior styling. The perforated leather seats look great, the dashboard looks and feels wonderful. The MFT screen is a joy to look at. The 'buttons', while a little sensitive to touch, are just gorgeous in my humble opinion. Ginger has the medium ceramic colored interior and it adds just that extra bit of style to her.
 
And of course, the reason I got her... the fuel mileage. After a year of driving I'm completely satisfied with 40+ mpg. That's equal to or better than my previous car (2012 Ford Focus), in a car that's heavier, sturdier, and far more luxurious. Oh, and that includes letting her idle for about 15 minutes on cold mornings! Could I improve those number? Sure, but it would mean making sacrifices to the style (grille blocks), or my driving. I love that with almost no thought or consideration to how good my fuel economy is affected, I can drive the way I want and STILL get these numbers.
 
Now, I'd love to say that I love everything about Ginger. But there are some quirks worth mentioning. First and foremost is the damned alarm button on the remote. I've had five cars now with an alarm button on the fob, and I may have tripped it by accident once or twice before Ginger. With the fob in my pocket and me bending over to tie my shoes I hit the damned button at least twice a month. Speaking of the fob, I wish the red/green light on it was brighter or at least bigger. In bright wintry sunlight it can be hard to tell if it flashed red (indicating I need to be a bit closer to remote start it), or if it flashed green (indicating I can safely put it back in my pocket). I wish I had about another half inch or so of dead pedal space. But this only comes up when I have an achy ankle or on very long (4+ hours) stretches of driving. I wish the rain sensing wipers didn't stop the lights from coming on automatically in the rain. Yes, the DRLs are on, but when it's raining out I'd like my tail lights to be on too. I wish there were a few more pockets and places to put stuff. I have yet to find an acceptable place to put change in the car that's easy and convenient to use. Right now the best place seems to be the little cubby right in front of the gear selector... and that's just difficult to see what's there when I pull up to a toll booth or go into a fast food drive through. I can toss the change into it easily enough but getting it out isn't worth the effort. The stereo/speakers could have been tuned better. I don't mean sound quality as it's good enough for me, but the stereo allows the music to get louder than the speakers can handle. I'd normally say this is an issue with me or my music, but I could crank the Focuses volume all the way up on just about every single song and the speakers sounded great. In Ginger... well I'm fairly sure I've blown a couple speakers. I now only take the volume 4/5ths of the way up, and on some music that still gives me an annoying rattle or six. Oh, and at higher volumes the music and the active noise canceling works together to increase the bass. It's very annoying to get that 'extra' bass only to have it cut out when I am coasting to a stop. I wouldn't miss the bass if it wasn't tantalizingly offered up at random moments.
 
At the end of the day though, Ginger is a car. Ginger gets me from point A to point B. She does so in comfort while using very little dinosaur juice. What really sells me is that when I see my car... I smile. Walking up to her makes me happy. Driving in her is comfortable and easy. I never have thought "If I only had..." a bigger car, a more fuel efficient car, a more powerful car, a more comfortable car, more techy toys in my car. To put it another way... I'm constantly looking at cars. Cars.com and Autotrader.com used to be daily stops for me as I was constantly lusting after the next big thing. But I've had to stop looking. There just isn't another make or model of car that fits into my price range that I want. Would I like to have a high end Bimmer or Merc? Sure. Would I like to have a Tesla? Yup. But those are not within my means. For cars that I can afford... there just isn't anything better. The only car that I'm considering (and will probably get next year) will be the Energi version of this car. My commute more or less killed the idea of getting one last year, but once I get closer to a reasonable trade in loss, I'll be able to comfortably fit into a lease.
 
 
 
So... TLDR? I LOVE my car. I can't imagine having different one, and my constant searching for a 'better' next car has stopped for the first time in over a decade.

Welcome and congrats on your new ride.
 
This forum has a wealth of knowledge in all different categories so take your time and read up as much as you can.

That little sticker is always the first thing I remove after an oil change at the Ford dealer.
I recently had a puncture fixed on my wife's Explorer at an independent shop and had them do an oil change. I was presently surprised that they did not put the typical 5000 mile sticker in the upper left windshield corner.

Welcome and congrats on your new ride.
 
This forum has a wealth of knowledge in all different categories so take your time and read up as much as you can.

After 22,850 miles my lifetime hand calculated MPG is 45.2 while driving primarily in Minnesota. This is without purchasing premium gas, fuel injector cleaner, a scan gauge, grill blockers, attaching angle irons to the bottom of the transmission or running with 51 PSI in the tires. My MPG is 1.7 MPG less than yours but I also spend less dollars/mile and this is achieved with driving techniques that are not dangerous/annoying to other motorists.
 
Unfortunately, many of your posts are a disservice to members of this forum who are looking for common sense help with their FFHs. Excellent MPG can be achieved relatively easily in a FFH without resorting to the nonsense you continue to advocate.

Let's see ... I live in the Central NY snowbelt where we can get 12 feet plus annual snowfall. I have Goodyear Ultragrip ICE WRT tires on for Winter, no grille blocker, drive as normal allowing for the Winter roads, use remote start periodically - AND - <drum roll please> get 36-38 MPG (from the receipt) without NOS or any other item used. Summer mileage is easily in the 40s with some tanks at 48+.
 
Soooo, altho the OM does not specifically prohibit injector cleaners, etc I'm with lolder, md13ffhguy and Waldo ... it's not cost effective and decent driving practices can easily achieve good mileage numbers. BTW this is the first Winter in the FFH but it already has over 24K miles on it since April.

Please don't do that...
 
Additives won't change anything.
 
Its winter, MPG's go down in winter.

Did the same evaluation 4 months ago, but from a different place when we added to the family fleet.
 
I've had a TCH since April 2008, and have been quite pleased with the vehicle. The only item of note for the TCH (aside from the several recall campaigns) is the melting of the dash top in the Florida heat - which no longer uses the same materials. If I could have gotten a new one similarly equipped, it would have been my first choice. The issue I ran into was Toyota's packaging decisions - you had to go up to the XLE to get rear seat A/C vents. This ballooned the price point, and bundled stuff I didn't want to pay for. The current TCH gen also seems to have gone into the 'what it lacks in handling precision it makes up for in harsh ride' trap. Seems like they hired the GM engineers from the 90's that conflate a rough ride with sporty handling - resulting in a vehicle lacking in both agility and comfort.
 
Honda's decision to 'take the year off' is also more than a bit concerning, and makes me wonder about the viability of the model. When I got serious about buying, there were only the tarted-up versions with a 35K sticker. Also, the prior Civic and Accord hybrid generations have had considerably worse durability record for the electric parts (traction battery in particular) that either Toyota or Ford. Of course, these were a different battery tech and used a different electric motor integration scheme - but...
 
Some of Ford's design and option bundling decisions are also head-scratches. For example, bundling the sunroof with the home link. The A/C design that forces excessive dis-assembly to change cabin filter - when other Ford models (e.g. Explorer) have a much simpler way. The way the battery is packaged in the Energi model that renders luggage space rather sad. The lack of US availability of an Estate model (like the European Mondeo) - which I suppose I'm one of the relatively few to prefer over the 'butched up' crossovers with ghetto-sized wheels and ultra-low-profile tires (Edge on 21's? 40 series tires on a vehicle with off-road pretensions? Really?). Given that, I was able to get one with (almost) everything I wanted, and very little that I didn't, and some things (e.g. sunroof and its loss of headroom) that I both love and get annoyed at, depending on the weather.
 
My issue with the Titanium was the perforated leather - I feel the treatment destroys the value proposition of leather (for me, it's feel, durability and spill resistance). I find the built-in NAV systems a poor value - map updates are spendy and old when released, with relatively poor POI currency. Doubly so with the MFT, which can't integrate with your phone address book, doesn't allow entry or updates of waypoints by your passengers while the vehicle is moving, has laggy response for address entry, etc. The 'driver assist' stuff feels like it needs a couple of more generations to get 'usable'. I have little patience for paying to be a beta tester.
 
Guess my point is that there is no such thing as a perfect car - certainly not at a price point affordable by 'mere mortals' unwilling to sell out their future. The FFH represented for me a reasonable compromise and the items I've ragged on weren't deal-breakers, and could be avoided by judicious selections on the option sheet. For my example, at least, the quality of paint and assembly was pretty good - really haven't found any glaring faults or mistakes. Time will tell how durable the thing is - I've only 2K miles and change on mine, but so far so good. Interesting trivia is that the '08 TCH developed more rattles by this point in its life than the new Fusion - guess the 8 years have resulted in some progress.

Almost 3 years and still enjoying every second of it whenever I'm driving my 13' FFH.
 
Lifetime MPG 44 displayed and 41.4 at the pump I couldn't be happier.

Dear Ford,
I brought my 2014 Fusion Hybrid in for service yesterday. The check engine light was on, and there's a recall to also be performed. Your dealer was kind enough to arrange a rental for me - a pretty cool one at that! I was surprised when they offered a 2016 F-150! Very nice. The Ecoboost knocked my socks off. Smooth, quiet, and powerful.
 
It's not the fanciest F-150 out there. Cloth seats and no navigation - just plain old Sync. I paired my phone and it hit me... This basic beast has Applink! It was so easy and nice to control the Pandora app on my phone through the interface on the dash, or by voice!
 
Which leads me to wonder again... Why can't us owners with Sync with MyFord Touch have such nice things? Didn't we pay more to get the best? Applink for MFT. Is that too much to expect?
 
Sincerely,
Ed
 
P.S. What's that button for in MFT that's labeled "Install Apps..."?

My 2013 Titanium, which has always been driven as a normal car, mostly in city driving, has a lifetime average of 39.9. I am very happy with that. It is not unusual, for short local trips, to achieve in the high 50s, as it happened yesterday when I saw 59mpg for a trip of about 3 miles. I am nothing but satisfied, and the car as been absolutely rock solid vis a vis mileage. There was no break in period that I could discern.

I cut my "hybrid" teeth right here on this forum. Learned an immense amount from the helpful and knowledgeable members. Read as many of the threads as you can about driving technique and how to learn from the dash displays.
 
If I could pass any words of wisdom to you it would be to drive the car gently but normally and do not get caught up in the OCD trap of maximizing MPGs. This forum is full of good advice. But you will also find posts that are at best lacking in common sense and at worse are dangerous to yourself, other motorists, and your car. Of course this is only my opinion.

All of the three cars are a good choice. Ford's hybrid technology is about the same as Toyota, but we have a lithium-ion battery (not sure if the other have made the switch form nickel yet).
I'd say go with the one you love most and hope to see you joining the family.

I've jumped my truck ('96 f150) using the front terminals without any issues. I just followed the instructions in the manual and the truck started right away. No noticeable difference to the fusion battery afterwards.

When Ford signs a contract with the tire supplier, they tell the tire company what the tire pressure is going to be, then the tire companies design the tire around that pressure.
 
Usually what it really comes down to is how close the fuel economy label is to rounding up to the next number. Maybe the Fusion was coming out at 41.6 at 35psi, so it rounds up to 42, but the C-max was 39.4 at 35psi so putting it at 38psi bumped it up to 39.5, so it can round up to 40.
 
Even tire wear is nice, but it's not everything. The shape of the contact patch and the size of the contact patch are different things. Your higher pressure might be making the patch wider - or even side to side, but it is reducing it's length and reducing the overall size. Simple math, higher pressure = less contact patch area. Less area = less grip, especially in braking.

Backing in is also an option, and in fact stupidly easy with the rearview camera option.
 
If there's a concrete stopper in front of the parking space, that more or less guarantees I'm gonna back in, otherwise the stopper could damage my front bumper. Since the rear bumper is quite a bit higher, that makes for some great peace of mind.

Not a problem!!
 
After your FFH is running the 12V battery as no more job to do everything else runs of the engine/HVB. Just make sure you use the charge point under the hood as described in the manual.
 
Just for reference I gave my wife's Explorer a jump start a couple years ago without issues.
 
Good luck

Well tires do a lot more than just create rolling resistance. How many racecars out there run 50psi? Less rolling resistance would give them higher top speeds on the straights. The answer is none, because lower tire pressures give you more grip. Running at 50psi you will have longer stopping distances in an emergency. The fact that you haven't encountered an emergency in 122K miles is likely part driving skill and part luck, but the fact that you don't care about safety doesn't mean that it is not a good reason to consider it.

I think the phrase, "Your mileage may vary," seems appropriate here.

BTW, the xml file would only load to Ford's site using IE... Really?