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Now that the weather has started to warm up, I've been able to better observe the under calculation of fuel used by my MKZ Hybrid. I haven't used remote start in over a month. For the first tank of gas while it was still relatively cold, the car was about 1 gallon lower than I added at the pump. The most recent tank has seen a greater number of 50+ degree days, and the car was only about half a gallon off from what I added at the pump. At least I finally got a tank of over 40 MPG on Fuelly, while the car has been estimating around 44 MPG.

"We hate Fords. Why? Because we do. We don't care if consumers have had good experiences with them. MyFord Touch ruins the whole experience. It was buggy and crashed a lot 3 years ago when it first came out so it must still suck. Maybe if Ford moved their headquarters to Japan we'd like them more."

Sounds like a nice replacement. You get to maintain the utility of the Flex while picking up a few nice upgrades. Good luck with the transaction and post pictures when you get it!

No, only the Hybrid and Energi do.

Yes, they are all configurable in the settings menu on the left dashboard screen. For collision alert, you can select different sensitivity levels. My dealer recommended setting it to low to reduce false alarms when he was delivering the car. I have only had it trigger three times. The first was on the freeway while using adaptive cruise. A car changed lanes in front of me and the adaptive cruise didn't slow down fast enough on its own. The second and third were last week on the same drive. One was a car turning into a restaurant that was never really a risk, but the other time traffic was slowing down faster than expected and it did prove helpful. Overall, I'm satisfied with the feature.

Dark Side has a bit more of a blue tint to it but isn't all that different from Atlantis Green in it's black-like appearance.

The best part of my experience getting the MKZ over my previous Ford was the lack of any sales pitches or finance manager. My salesperson handled all the paperwork signing, and did not pressure me to buy any add-ons. I'm not sure if this is typical of all Lincoln dealers, but the buying experience alone made it easier to justify the price premium over the Fusion.

The red leather looked very nice in person at the auto show. I'm sure you will enjoy it!

Even though BLIS (and cross-traffic alert which is also tied into it) can be prone to false positives, I can't say I've noticed false negatives. The whole intent of the system is to get your attention to a potential hazard before changing lanes or backing out of a parking spot. I'd rather have it alert me more frequently to keep me in the habit of checking rather than not go off when I'm counting on it.

Of the 3 fill-ups I've had so far, one was around 2.5 gallons more than the car indicated, one was .1 less than the car indicated, and the most recent was about 1.8 gallons more. I still think a large portion of this is attributable to the gas used during a remote start not being counted. The best proof I have of this is my MPG readout stays the same from the time I got out of my car until I get back in, even if I was running remote start for 10 minutes or so before getting in. This is completely illogical, as the miles per gallon should drop since I'm using gas while not traveling any distance. The middle tank where the numbers were equal or slightly less was during the holiday break when I was not using remote start as much since I mostly use it while at the office. I'm not overly concerned about padding my MPG numbers since I know they will greatly increase once it warms up. I'd rather have a warm car when it's well below freezing. Even last weekend when it warmed up to around 40 I saw 50+ MPG for several longer trips I took. If anything, this is a good lesson in how much energy various systems use.

I'd rather they make a hybrid or Energi Edge than a Fusion wagon.

I suspect you are correct, and the car did not leave the dealership with a full tank despite the gauge being full. I did reset the trip computer when leaving the dealer but in hindsight I should have also topped it off at a gas station to ensure an accurate count. Even if it was only 29.5 MPG that's still 50% more than I was getting before so I'm not complaining. It's also good to know the remote start fuel usage is counted. I assume the timer is counting as well, since it registered about an hour more than I use to represent 100% city driving. Now I'll just have to guesstimate how often I drove on open highway.

I just filled my car up for the first time and was shocked by the results. The trip computer had reported 9.88 gallons of fuel used and I was down to just a sliver of yellow on the fuel gauge. I didn't pay much attention to the gas pump while filling, but when it clicked off I looked at the screen and it reported exactly 12.000 gallons. My normal procedure for tracking fuel economy would be to slowly fill to the next click, but since I had already exceeded the trip computer by over 2 gallons and theoretically only had room for about another half gallon of gas given the tank size I just left it there. The net result is while the trip computer told me I was getting 35.8 MPG, the calculations only came out to 29.5 MPG. I have never experienced such a discrepancy in any of my previous cars. The only thing that comes to mind is that I have been using the remote start to pre-warm the engine so I can enter EV mode sooner (and since it has been very cold out). I could see this potentially burning through 2 gallons of gas if every time it used 1/10 a gallon that wasn't picked up by the trip computer. I might try running this tank without any remote starts, then go back to it next time and see what the difference is.

It's based on the Escape platform, but the dimensions have all been tweaked. The Escape and MKC have far fewer similarities than the Fusion and MKZ. It more closely resembles a jacked up MKZ rather than any of it's C-platform counterparts. I was holding out hope for a MKC Hybrid but went with then MKZ Hybrid when they didn't announce it. Everyone I talked to at the dealership agreed that they should be offering a hybrid, and hopefully they'll add one for the second model year.

I wonder if they are mounted differently on the MKZ vs. the Fusion. Are you talking about the curbs that are about 6 inches tall in the front of parking spots? Mine don't appear to pick anything up that low. As for the recycle bin, it's possible that the sensors detected it but since there is no visual indicator of where the object is being detected (which other cars with front parking sensors I have seen use), there's no way to know if it's something the corner is seeing or the front is seeing.