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Got to test drive a Model Y Wednesday afternoon. (My wife has a Y order since day one or two, but Tesla refuses to build a 7 seat long range RWD). They had a 7 seater so we wanted to see how much room we'd have with her sitting in the third row. Luckily the trunk frame clears her head otherwise there'd be concern in an accident. I positioned myself in the driver seat, adjusted the seat, then moved to the second row and moved the seat as forward as I could. Barely had maybe 1-2 inches in front of my knee I'm guessing, but since the bottom cushion is long felt reasonably comfy. Wife was okay in the back. This was our third test drive, the first was a nightmare due to regenerative braking. (That's how they increased the range it doesn't have the option to coast just one foot driving). 2nd test drive I confirmed no more coast option and turned on creep, much better as that's what we're used to at slow speeds. This last test drive I barely got one sudden deceleration so not bad at all, car was set to creep when we got in. That's slow speed creep if you aren't getting what I say. At highway speeds if you let go of the gas the Y will immediately start to slow down as if you're braking. This time just before we got in I learned how to set the self driving. My wife was first and she would immediately panic, tug the wheel, and disable it. On my turn I got it to turn on, it works on city streets some. It was able to stop at a red light without a vehicle in front of me, which impressed me a lot, twice or three times in busy Old Town Pasadena. But half way through waiting at the red it would disengage and require driver intervention. I guess they haven't implemented green light recognition yet or something. Overall it's starting to come together except I was uncomfortable with the slightly rapid acceleration and strong braking. I think I was just as stressed having to be a nanny to the system driving as it would for me to be driving...

Technically you should be able to. All that's involved with the newer vehicles from the factory is a simple splitter system. Roof antenna covers both AM/FM radio and GPS and brings it back on one line and splits off the signals behind the APIM/ACM. But it's likely going to be extra work. I've looked into doing this before on the C-Max specifically and it looks like the actual splitter harness runs all the way to the driver side corner of the dash so would probably be a bit of a headache. If you're worried about the GPS receiver reliability, there have been some recommended that are OEM modules from other vehicles and can be placed under the center dash cover just as easily as the cheap 3rd party recommendations. Unfortunately I don't have the info on those at the moment. EDIT: Re-read your post a little more: No, the stock 2013 GPSM cannot be used with Sync 3. The APIM is not programmed to read from that data source and it cannot be wired into the APIM as the connections only provide CAN data and not the raw GPS signal that APIM is requiring on the antenna feed. Also the 2013 GPSM is in the dash right above the IPC. The comment I made originally was under the assumption you wanted to upgrade to the all-in-one sharkfin style antennas on some newer Ford's that have the combined GPS/AM/FM/Sirius antennas.