I’m an engineer. I understand. People that are car people understand.

I disagree. There will always be people that just want the looks, and don’t care about the performance. These people will usually put ridiculous wheels on their cars because they look cool. Not everyone is a driving enthusiast, and most people couldn’t even tell you the differences between the types of drivetrains.

Exactly! My wife went from a 4-Matic equipped C280 to a 4-Matic C300 Sport, and now has a RWD GLK350. She thought she NEEDED the AWD system, but if I hadn’t told her there was a difference, she’d have no idea.

Says who? Acura is all FWD, I believe, and their AWD is FWD-biased. Same with Volvo, unless they’ve changed that recently. Audi is consistently lauded as being a fantastic marque - all FWD. Lexus is the same thing.

From what I’ve heard, the Continental was always supposed to be built on a common, modified platform, while a new model that’s due between now and 2020 is supposed to ride on the Mustang’s bones. Personally, I really hope they come out with a great luxury coupe, based on the Mustang, because I’d LOVE to park one next…

How often do most people spend at the top end of their rev range? Not very much. Torque is way more important to the vast majority of the population, and in that respect, any Honda engine I’ve ever drive has fallen exceedingly short.

I played in a men’s baseball league this past fall, and despite not really being a pitcher, ever, I had to start a game. Five minutes before we were supposed to take the field, I had to drop a major deuce. I barely made it for my warm-ups. I wish I had some Immodium, at that point.

I actually saw Asante Samuel at a sushi place in Moorestown, NJ, when he was playing for the Eagles. He was eating next to us the whole time, and I had no idea, because I’m a Giants fan. So, he and his wife (girlfriend?) get up to leave, and our server is like - “DO YOU GUYS KNOW WHO THAT IS?!?! IT’S ASANTE SAMUEL!”

Yes, and no. Like I posted in another thread, working as an in-house engineer at Ford will mean dealing with managers meddling with ideas before they can reach true decision makers. I’ve worked for two huge corporations (Lockheed Martin and Honeywell) and can tell you first hand, that it’s extremely difficult to gain…

$100k might not sound like a lot when you’re talking about an experienced engineer’s annual salary, but when you’re discussing things that could be done on nights and weekends, with minimal investment in hardware, and simply the time it takes to develop the software and APIs. Don’t think of it in terms of hourly…

The better part of the plan is that when you’re hired as a new grad, you’re typically not given the ability to have a voice in the engineering discussion, or even suggest ideas, without heavy management oversight. Letting the ideas come from outside, where they can’t be quashed or significantly altered by layers of…

Regarding Sync as a selling point, I purposely waiting until MY2016 to buy a new Mustang, despite being ready to ditch my 2006 quite some time ago.

Nah, they needed to get to a platform that would support it (Sync 3), then take the time to integrate.

Well, going from Sync to MFT is currently possible, but I’m sure the website I linked will have a kit for Sync 3/Android Auto/Apple CarPlay, eventually.

Really? You’re probably the only person I’ve heard say that. I think it’s gorgeous, especially compared to MFT. I have a couple complaints about it, but Ford actually has a feedback mechanism for UI improvements, and people from their In-Vehicle Technology team hang out on various forums and take suggestions from…

You’re SOL, as MFT (there is no Sync 2) uses a different hardware set.

They’ve been saying all along that they’d include Android Auto and Apple CarPlay with Sync 3, they just needed time to integrate and test.

They will not. The Sync and MFT versions use different hardware supersets, however, http://www.4dtech.com/ offers MFT retrofit kits, and I have to assume that they’ll offer Sync 3 kits, eventually. They’re not cheap, though...

That’s the home screen. It shows you various display components, as well as the controls for each control set. If you want any of the component sets to be full screen, you can click the button, and have a full navigation map, full audio controls, full climate controls (redundant, as there are physical buttons). I’ve…

As someone who has a 2016 Mustang with Sync 3, it’s actually really solid. I drove a crap ton of cars with MFT, and they all sucked. I hate the COMAND system in my wife’s Mercedes. Sync 3, though, looks much better, and works great. I’ve had a couple hiccups with the navigation software freezing, but there have been…