Ford Flex

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Anyone have any experiance with them, good or bad ?

Test drove one today, wife likes it, I'm kinda on the fence more for mileage reasons than anything ( 18/24epa ) wife driving 50miles round trip daily may be more than I/we want to feed.

Mostly interested in that it's big enough to tow our camper, but that isn't really a top priority.

Looked at Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Ford today, drivng a POS Chevy Impala rental currently, not impressed can't see out the rear, just not feeling it....

very unfamiliar ground here, I haven't had anything but Toyotas and a Honda the last 18years and been pretty happy, no major mechanical issues, never left us sitting.

We were pretty happy with the wifes '07 Camry SE that was wadded up 2 weeks ago. have even looked at a direct replacement for that, and may go that way.

still waiting on Ins company to make offer..... body shop called today, said 12k damage to Camry :eek: , it's bent pretty good ( it actually did it's job well protecting her ) so I wouldn't be afraid of getting another one.

Anyone ?
 
12k in damage... they might just fix it. How much was it worth?

I did about $15k. They cut the body apart and put it back together again.

The Flex is kind of enormous. They're bigger than Cyd's Exploder... almost as wide as an F150.
 
$13,500 average retail trade in, have been seeing same priced @ 17-19k.

to do it right, they'll have to replace the whole roof and left side "uni-panel", and the cowl/ Apillar area was pushed up and back, the floor is buckled, engine cradle it bent, lower control arm ripped off the cradle, which also shares an engine mounting point. driver door structure crushed, pushed door frame into B pillar and split the corner at roof line. axle pulled apart, fender trashed,lower core support pushed back. no airbags deplyed though.

Honestly, even if it can be fixed, will it be as strong as it was ? and can they garuntee it ? I'm not wanting to find out. I have title, so we'll see what happens.

Flex is a little bigger than my Runner parked next to it. and tons more room inside.
 
I was told by Nation Wide a while back while repairing my Ranger.... 75% of bank loan / whole sale, it would be totaled.

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It looks like a school bus fuct a Scion XB. But Fords quality seems to be on up there recently. Just fugly IMO.
 
I can almost match those mileage numbers with my Yukon XL, and it's fulltime 4x4!
 
I was looking into buying my fiance a Flex. Found an all wheel drive with the ecoboost twin turbo V6 but then I saw the price tag. She ended up with a Tahoe.
 
for that kind of $ to fix, I wouldn't fix it.

If you've been satisfied with the Camry, upgrade to a newer one and be done with it.
 
Jeep Patriot is deceptively roomy. Gets 29-30MPG highway with the 2.4L and CVT.
My 6'4" son fits in the back seat with my wife, who is 5'10" sitting in front of him.
Under $20K depending on how it is equipped.

The base Flex is $29K. My wife liked the Flex but opted for the Jeep Patriot. That left room in the budget for me to get a new 4 door Rubicon about 3 weeks later. :D
 
I'm pulling that with my DD pickup.. Have you looked into a 4door pickup w/ the 5.3, new ones are pulling in pretty decent MPG and will definitely tow your camper.
 
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