Ive been a Ford Fan Boy all my life and last year i went to have a look at the Explorer while it was “on nationwide tour” i was hoping i would love it when i saw it….but i did’nt..too many niggles for me. Haptic buttons,column selector,soundbar just stuck on top of the dash,infotainment screen low down,no 4×4 it put me off and then they delayed its launch and when it did finally arrive it AP was way too high. So from March 24 to Sept 24 i went from ordering Enyak Sportline to Ioniq 5 to Mustang Mach E and all the way back to getting an Enyak Sportline last Oct,it is perfect in every way..from layout of controls to subtle regen 3 stage control,comfy seats,huge boot,std audio system is very good,memory seat,blind spot alert and cross traffic alert,and the over speed alert sound is nice gentle reminder,its a 4×4 been great in recent snow and ice.
Interesting to read. We seriously considered the Enyaq but were put off by three things.
1) The long delivery times for the Skoda, several months rather than only three weeks for the Ford.
2) Personally we didn’t find the seats on the Skoda that comfortable (although to be fair, after our Volvo, nothing would ever be as comfy). The Ford seats felt slightly better to our bums!
3) We trailed round car showrooms with all of the gubbins we typically need to fit into the car when we go away (including wheelchair, trike attachment, shower chair, rotastand turntable, bedstick etc etc) to try each car’s load space for size. The Ford, although on paper having a smaller load area, somehow loaded better than the Enyaq and others. I can’t really explain the reason for this, beyond the wider tailgate I mentioned earlier.
Like many others it seems, no car on the list is the ideal choice for us. We just found the Ford to be the best compromise at the time we were choosing. I too was bothered about the gear selector being on a stalk but I’ve got completely used to it now. Ours has the driver assist pack which includes heads up display, 360 degree camera, parking assist, blind spot alert etc. If it also had 4-wheel drive, dumb cruise control and normal buttons on the steering wheel, I’d be pretty chuffed with it.