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Replying to: cmuniz (Jul 22, 2005 2:33 am)  I may monkey more with it later. Oh well, at least now my wife will be able to use it. 
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| My wife and I are really happy with our Freestyle. We now have 12,000+ miles on it since buying it in Feb. We only have one baby, but we had a lot of visiting family over the past month, and took some road trips with every seat filled, luggage on the roof, and driving over the mountains in W. Virginia. We live in VA and were visiting family in OH. Zero problems with the car. We get about 24mpg hwy/20 city calculated manually. | |
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| Hi, J in just west of Minneapolis. Bought the AWD SE in December--has been a great vehicle--nice tight feel to drive with good control, good mileage (getting 23 in mixed driving), was wonderful in the snow, passengers say is comfortable. Well built. 9500 miles knock on wood no probs! Go for it! | |
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Replying to: jschreiber (Jul 28, 2005 1:54 pm)
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Replying to: prairiestyle (Jul 10, 2005 10:01 am) I'm really glad I went with the Freestyle for both the comfort of city driving and for the longer road trips we plan to take. The GC drives very much like a van (like it's supposed to - just not my preference) and it's noisy on the highway. |
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I thought you guys would enjoy this story. I had to take my two Basset Hounds to the vet this morning in the back of my Freestyle. I folded the 3rd row seats down and very carefully put down and tucked in a sheet to keep the back clean. Noticing the gap between the two 2nd row seats I figured they'd try to worm their way into the middle row and stink and dirty up that area, so I wedged a large piece of plywood into the gap to dissuade them. Here's the funny part - getting the dogs into the car. The rear seems a lot higher when you are lifting one 63 lb dog followed by a 68 lb dog. They were just too dang short to climb in! So I got to get my work clothes covered in dog hair and hound stink. The plywood worked great and they were too short to climb over the 2nd row seat backs. Anybody remember Jerry Reed picking up Fred in Smokey and the Bandit? It was a lot like that. I'll post a follow up once I find something that gets dog snot off of Freestyle windows - I love my dogs, but man they are messy!
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Replying to: cdndriver2 (Jul 28, 2005 6:27 pm)
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Replying to: cdndriver2 (Jun 15, 2005 6:39 pm) We both love the Freebie very much and I got to admit the 18" Pirellis really holds the road very well and IMHO has a slight edge in handling than the 17" Contis.I also notice when I put on my polarized fishing glasses it eliminates almost all the glare.The downside of our light interior is also the carpets tend to look dirty awfully fast. should have taken your advice. BTW those Air France passengers were sure lucky to survive the crash landing at Pearson Intl. Airport during a fierce thunderstorm.
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I'm Jackie, one day old owner of a Merlot Limited AWD, pebble int. Like Willie above, my first choice int was the shale, bummer it doesn't come on the Limited. And I came "thiiis close" to buying a silver/shale SEL till I realized the no heated seats. My trade-in volvo xc had the heated seats, as does dh's Acura MDX, so although I felt petty, we decided we had to confine our search to the Limiteds. I wear polarized glasses and haven't had a problem with the glare. I would rather have that than the black, too hot in the summer, that was the only color in or out I put on the definitely do not want list. The interior isn't as upscale as the xc or the mdx, the carpet is pretty cheap, but I'm getting about 1 mile less per gallon than the volvo in my two days of driving so far and assume it will rise after break in. That plus no longer needing premium gas and (knock on wood) lower maintainance costs with ford caused us to pick this over another xc. My requirements in a new car were: -drives like a car (the mdx is too far from a car like experience for me) -decent MPG, low 20's goal, 18-19 ok, most of my driving is highway -awd -capacity of a wagon The incentives pushed us into action. The '99 volvo had 143k and was needing expensive repairs every time I brought it in for service. Some wear and tear items, some not. There had been close to $1500 worth of non-urgent things I had postponed. So it was time. Got a decent trade-in value, decent salesperson considering they have buyers clamoring at their doors and don't have to go the extra step for you. Jackie
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Replying to: willie19 (Aug 03, 2005 7:43 pm) Ya ... the Air France folks sure got lucky. I live near the airport and saw the smoke from the plane in my back yard, The airport guys are starting to clean up today. |
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