seattlerain

My wife loves them, finds them very comfortable; she had an Audi A3 prior to this car and these are quite comparable. I'm a large guy (6' 4" / 230) and I originally loved them and for short drives they are fine. I find on longer drives my 'seat' gets a bit sore; but I don't have back issues after longer drives. This is all just incentive to lose weight (better gas mileage and more comfortable seating; ha ha). The lumbar adjustments are pretty good and the heated seats (SEL) are awesome. I've heard complaints on this forum and some reviews about the back seats but my kids love the car and the seats in back. They have plenty of legroom (even behind me). One of the reasons I got this car vs. a Prius (of many reasons), was my oldest son (or myself) can sit up straight in the back of this car. In the standard Prius he couldn't do that, I'm not sure about the Prius V. The biggest drawback of the seats are no memory for driver seat and no height adjustment / electronic controls for the passenger seat.

I bumped mine up to 41 (they were @ 36) last night. My normal trip I typically get 39 there and 32 back and today I got 43.8 there and 40 back. Temps low to mid 40's and no wind / rain today. I'll certainly be keeping an eye on this to see if it keeps improving milage over what I've been getting. I do notice a bit more cabin noise in the vehicle, but I'll take it if I get this type of mileage.

One time while driving the car lost power, and said to pull the car over immediately in a safe place. Luckily we had a place to pull out close since we had no power. The yellow wrench came on and stayed on for a day. It was late Saturday afternoon and the dealership was closed, so I decided to turn the car 'off', wait a minute and turned it back on. After turning it back on, the car ran / worked fine. I am going to schedule to have it looked at by the shop hopefully this week.

I have also tried this with some success. It works on most trips; but not all. On my shorter trips to work/back it works pretty well. Difference from 34 - 39MPG. On my long trips that I take a few times a week (15 mile 70MPH zone, 70 miles 60 MPH zone) I decided to change my strategy and just drive the speed limit (60 in 60 vs 66, and 70 in 70 vs. 74). Difference was pretty big; jumped from 32MPG to 39MPG on that trip. I'm up over 3K now, and I'm starting to notice a bit better battery usage, but maybe that's just my punch / go techniques; I do this on the freeway too; I'll bump it up to 65 when it's already shifted to gas mode and let the Cruise Control take it back down to 60 or so. The biggest draw on the EV mode is gravity. If all routes were downhill this car would absolutely rule. What I'm tired of hearing / seeing though (and I'm sure many of you can also agree) is the excuse of the 47MPG is an EPA estimate. My salesperson (multiple actually @ 3 different Ford Dealers were certainly selling that feature). While that is correct, go to Ford.com and look @ the CMAX site. Look @ Motortrends and all of the other reviews out there noting this as a 47MPG City, and 47MPG Highway, so 47/47 combined. Ford does advertise this, and with the exception of one person on Fuelly.com, no one is getting +/=47MPG, and most people are in the 30's. This was a major contributor to me buying the car. I was going to buy a Prius and found out about the CMAX. I prefer to buy American when it's a good product. Everyone I talked to said Ford is great, everyone loves them. So, I'm hoping that the geeks @ Ford can figure out a tuning mechanism to get us all a bit closer to 47MPG. I'm sure this car could do 47MPG in Las Vegas (Flat / Warm). But anywhere else in the country, I'm not seeing how that is going to meet it's EPA standard. My wife and I are looking if we should just get the Energi, but after the hit we'd likely take it's not going to payout. The cost per mile goes from .10 to .08 based on our math.

I'm over 2K now and if anything my MPG is going down (about 35.5 MPG). I'm sure outside temp is affecting, overall drag due to rain (standing water), etc. but I'm still not getting anywhere near 47. I have attempted my long drives (over 70mi each way 60-70MPH zones) with no climate (turned completely off), electric heated seats @ 1, and it made little to no difference on either trip. Our standard daily trip to / from work (about 10 miles each way to/from work of which 8 miles are freeway), we get 36 pretty consistently. I have setup our car on Fuelly.com... http://www.fuelly.com/driver/seattlerain/cmax

Anyone else having issues using Sync Navigation? I have had mine lock up (freeze) 3 times now, with no ability to reset it, etc. I called the Sync Support and they told me to take it to the dealer ASAP. Each time, I was trying to use Voice Navigation (entering an address, which is a frustration on it's own), and it locked up for over 4 hours. Screen frozen, time still at the time it froze. (Turning off power to car, etc. does nothing). Shutdown the car for a football game, started my drive home and 1.5 hours later it rebooted the sync system and came back good as new. Next day, same thing it just didn't take 4 hours to reset/reboot; took about 30 minutes. I'm going to take it in when I get time, but if others out there are experiencing this it would be good to know if there is a workaround to reset it.

I got mine last Monday, so after a week and a tank and a half of gas I'm at 700 miles. I'm still averaging 38; best trip has been about 40 (60-70 mph zones). I have adjusted my driving, using ECO Cruise, etc. and it's still not doing anywhere near 47 unless you have a downhill trip the whole way. I was ready to take mine back until I found the note on this forum about the break in period. No one at the dealer knew anything about it, but we liked this car so much more than the Prius and it's American; so we're very hopeful it works out. I can say that it's probably the best car I've ever driven in rain; the Michelins and the ATC are incredibly stable. I'll be posting as I get closer to 1-2 K with hopefully good news.

It does detect anything close (curb/car etc) behind you, if you have the reverse camera sensing package, the object lights up and it beeps at you. I just wish you could activate the rear camera while driving like I see on the Honda add (changing lanes, etc.). But very happy with it.