So for the 0% 2023 gang… it’s been about 24-30 months of ownership… how are we all feeling?
I was in the market for a new car during the 2023 Fire sale, and wound up with a grey GT.
Since buying it my work commute has changed from 30 miles to 2 miles so I’m only a hair under 12K miles right now.
Pros
- Love the look, love driving it, love it’s pick up and love honestly everything about the BlueCruise, Ford even extended my BlueCruise to 2029 after following a link in this subreddit a few months back, so I don’t’ have to worry about that price.
- Love the Blue Cruise. LOVE IT. I don’t’ mind long highway trips as I can rest my arms and fiddle with the radio (yes I keep my eyes on the road, the car doesn’t yell at me).
- Love the giant screen and how great Apple CarPlay works. It occasionally hiccups and fucks around, but I don’t have major issues with it.
- Love driving by gas stations signs and looking what gas costs nowadays.
- LOve getting OTA updates to fix little things randomly and even recall things.
Cons
- Cannot road trip to our favorite destination (Vermont) as the infrastructure in the towns we visit sucks and we have to take the wife’s Tucson Hybrid ( 400 miles on less than 10 gallons isn’t bad). Some vacation spots are rough due to lack of charging stations and lack of level 3 chargers. The VT towns we visit all had Tesla destination chargers and the one Level 3 was only 2 stalls and 1 was broken.
- Road charging is too slow. I don’t like the 30+ minute waits to charge up on road trips. I’m jealous when I see other manufacturers slashing that in half… but I know the future is bright, but it’s one of the reasons I fear the resale value will keep dropping, no one wants to wait that long.
- Not a fan of the Ford dealership service departments in my area.
- I get infrequent errors when I do a lot of stop/go errands where I’ll get in and start it and it’ll give me the error where it won’t start the car as if the 12 V is dead. I have to wait a few minutes and do the four way flasher reset to get going again (the shop says my battery tests fine) ..
Overall I love this car, and I think I made the right choice, the vacation inconvenience sucks, but my wife got the hybrid (she’s WFH so her fill ups are few and far between anyway).
What about you guys?