05 Ford Freestyle

[23Ballistic randyvanaken]

Well traded in Yukon and got a new Ford Freestyle. Couldnt see $100 per week on gas anymore.

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[Deleted deleted]

When I was shopping for my wife's new Escape, I noticed quite a few of these on the lot. No lookers, though.

 

[Johnny O]

I like them but I couldn't talk the wife into one. We put the dog in back of one and she still couldn't see out the back window. She wants a minivan. Oh the horror, the humanity....

 

[Deleted deleted]

don't get a minivan, get a smaller dog

 

[Dreman]

Isn't the freestyle just sort of a mini-minivan?

 

[Travis Munday]

Not really, it's the same size, and bigger in some respects, then a new Explorer. It's considered a cross over SUV, car-based like a minivan, but capable of doing most of the "offroad" type stuff the vast majority of SUV owners would do.

 

[Fred]

A MINIVAN??? :lol::lol::lol:



sorry

 

[23Ballistic randyvanaken]

What we liked about it was the 6-7 passenger seating..Actually has more seating than the Yukon we had and the gas mileage is much better.

 

[Gerald Pierce]

mini van???? Bwaaaahhhhhhh! The humiliation!

 

[Deleted deleted]

Q: when I was a kid, my uncle had a 1969 Ford Country Squire station wagon with that 'rear seat faces back' seating. Made me carsick to ride in that 3rd seat.

 

[Dreman]

I remember riding in the back of my parent's wagon with the back seat folded down. Everything my Dad did made us slide around, forward, when he stopped, back when he accelerated, side to side when he turned. Not legal to do that sort of thing now.



We also put nine people (mostly kids) into my Dad's 4 door Buick LeSabre for a trip to San Antonio for the 1968 World's Fair. I rode all the way home asleep on the back deck under the back glass!

 

[Johnny O]

don't get a minivan, get a smaller dog

I like a dog big enough that you don't have to bend over to pet it.:lol:

 

[David Crockett]

I'd buy a horse and buggy before a minivan.

 

[TomT]

I saw these at the dealer when they first came out. Nice vehicle but seems to me the gas mileage is not that different from the Trac. Ford lists the Freestyle mpg as 20-27 and the Trac as 17-21. Guess the Freestyle might save you a few bucks on the open road but since 90% of my driving is in the city then it would not save me that much.

 

[Deleted deleted]

TomT: don't forget those are EPA estimates, not Ford's. They're always optimistic.

 

[Tom Schindler]

It is not so much as optomistic, it is the method used to calculate fuel economy is outdated and only like 3% of drivers actually drive the type of driving that is used for EPA estimates.





Tom