Scooter80 Posted March 17, 2013 at 01:53 AM Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 at 01:53 AM Well, my wife and I finally took delivery of our 2013 Bordeaux Reserve Metallic Fusion Energi Titanium. Thats a mouthful. A big, grinning ear to ear mouthful! Now, I drive what I think is a pretty damn nice car, a 2006 Audi A6 4.2L Quattro, pretty much loaded, and maybe its just the new car feel, the tightness of a new car, the new smell or something similar, but I am extremely jealous that my wife will be behind the wheel of our newest addition the majority of the time. Super jealous. This car drives so nice! The lane keeping is REALLY cool. I was giggling like a school girl while the car was bouncing line-to-line. Certainly not meant to drive itself, but very effective in keeping within the lane. Being my car was built Feb 9th, I appear to have gotten a job2 build, hence no aluminum pedals and no touch-sensitive moonroof controls. Not too disappointed with either as the moonroof buttons are really unobtrusive, and nicely recessed in the panel. The pedals would have been a nice touch, but lets face it, they are down where you shouldn't be looking when you're driving anyways. As most who've taken delivery have said, the trunk is small but definitely usable for many more things than I was anticipating. We made a Costco trip on the way home (::gasp:: on a Saturday?!?!) and had no issues schlepping things in. I have yet to get the iOS PHEV app working. The app kept telling me there was a communication issue and to contact such and such if it continues. I'll keep working on that. We had 21 EV miles listed when we took off from the dealer, but a few parking lot stops to play with things depleted that sooner than normal in the sub-freezing temps today. I can't say enough about the drive-train. When we first needed the ICE about 15 miles in, we had the radio up only in the slightest and I COULD NOT tell when the ICE actually kicked in. Very smooth and quiet. Now as we drained the EV range even more, the ICE did get higher revving and more noisy, but nothing terrible as some report with hybrids and/or CVTs. The different gauge options on the left-hand mini-screen are really cool and it is quite easy to see exactly what is going on with the car and drivetrain. Still haven't played much with all the electronics and fun stuff. That will have to wait for tomorrow. For now it is feeding at home on its included charger. My wife is on 3rd shift tonight and I want it to get a decent charge before she takes off. The included charger leaves something to be desired. It is a tidy package, but I can see how it would become a real pain to wind and unwind each time between charging as is required by the OEM, so I will likely be adding an L2 EVSE to the garage sooner rather than later so she can just use the 120v at work while she's on her 12's. Her work offered to look into getting an L2 in the parking lot, but we haven't heard anything in a few weeks. That would be awesome! But for now we are hoping there's just a 120v somewhere close she can use. Oh, I was so excited to talk about the car, I forgot to mention the delivery process. So from the beginning, I got real lucky on finding this car as it is exactly what my wife and I decided we'd order when we started looking mid-February. It just so happened a dealer in the area had ordered it in November and it was built Feb 9th. We made the purchase, putting down a deposit on the 19th of Feb. We were told it'd be there in about two weeks, but that didn't happen. Another week went by and we were told it was on a train in New Mexico. This week came and it was dropped at the trucking company Wednesday night, so they called and said they'd likely have it Thursday. No dice there either. They got a couple truckloads of cars in that time but ours wasn't one. Salesman called Friday around 11 and said they finally got it. Of course they did! We couldn't go Friday! Anyways, we took delivery of it today, Saturday. We got there and the salesman said he had it waiting in the service drop-off for us to check over. I checked the paint really well in the good lighting in the service bay since I had seen some posts on BlueOval about bad paint jobs. Ours is perfect. We also noticed a couple of hand written signs placed on the front bumper and the dash stating "DO NOT INSTALL FRONT PLATE BRACKET" LOL. That was something we hounded our salesman on. Though its law in Illinois, we really dislike the look of the front plate, especially on this car and my Audi. Most police I know won't write you for it anyways. They might pull you over for it, but they likely won't write you. AAAAnyways, he certainly followed through on that request! My wife also asked the porter to move her low-profile plate frame from our trade onto the Fusion, thus removing the advert frame that is so obtrusive IT should be outlawed. We did take note of the ugly dealer sticker on the decklid too, but decided not to bother them with that as I'm pretty good at removing those with her hairdryer! Now back inside to finalize the purchase. We took advantage of the $1,500 rebate and I had finally gotten a bunch of the $750 Private cash coupons from the plethora of brochures I ordered after I panicked about having thrown one away just before deciding to make this purchase. OOOps! But it turned out they didn't need it in-hand anyways. If you've ever gotten one, they will likely apply it to your purchase just by looking up your name and address in their rebate system. Just make sure you tell them about it as my salesman neglected to offer it even though it was likely listed when he was looking up the $1500 rebate. Cool beans, no trouble there. We had already negotiated the price weeks prior, so this was supposed to be pretty painless. We had also already secured financing outside of the dealer, but of course the Finance Manager had to try to sell us on theirs so that took a little bit to shut him down. He also tried the extended warranty sell. No thanks, just not for me. A bunch of papers later and we were walking outside with our salesman so he could "teach" us how to use the car. Oh boy! heeeere we go. I consider myself quite tech savvy and have taken delivery of my share of new cars, most pretty tech-heavy. Never once has the salesman ever taught me something I didn't know in this process. He had earlier boasted of having gone through a 3 hour course to be able to sell the EVs Ford offers, but I had the power of these forums, Blue Oval forums, and the manuals, and brochures I had downloaded weeks prior as well as the Ford PHEV website, so I knew this would be another brutal experience of watching the salesman point out the obvious and sometimes incorrect information. Sooooo, I decided to let my wife take the front seat. I sat in the back while the salesman struggled. Keep in mind I had also briefed my wife on some things as well, and being that she has to work tonight, she wasn't happy the finance manager took more of our time than needed and was starting to get sore of the wait in general, so she was kind of bored to begin with. I swear she nearly fell asleep. Were it not for the MyFordTouch Lady responding to my salesman's accented requests, I am sure she would have. He struggled with the SD card for the navigation. When he finally got it in, the navigation was updating. Apparently this slowed the computer down enough to really make the MFT slow to respond, so it was even more brutal watching him go through the motions. I nearly broke out in the back seat with comical laughter as the MFT/SYNC system just sat there after he yelled his voice command trying to show off the system. It probably didn't help my situation that I've had voice-control in all of my past 4 vehicles, and used it in precisely none of them. I don't intend to use it in this one either. It just isn't fast or accurate enough yet. Strange since its been around for the better part of the last decade at least. Anyways, he finished up with asking us to call him with any questions we had on the system or the car, thanked us for waiting for the car, and for him and his co-workers today. I mostly joke about this delivery experience as being comical, but he really did make an effort and I can't say it was a terrible experience, so I can't complain too much. He did his job at least as expected. Anyways, thanks for listening! Sorry for taking so much of YOUR time!! Pleas let me know if you have any questions or want me to explain anything, Happy to help those still stuck waiting! Live vicariously through me! Now here are some rewards (I hope they post correctly): jposs and FusionEnergi 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meyersnole Posted March 17, 2013 at 02:24 AM Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 at 02:24 AM "I have yet to get the iOS PHEV app working. The app kept telling me there was a communication issue and to contact such and such if it continues. I'll keep working on that." I posted this in another thread, your using the wrong app. Check it out here: http://www.fordfusionenergiforum.com/topic/616-myford-mobile/?p=1865 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter80 Posted March 17, 2013 at 02:28 AM Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 at 02:28 AM "I have yet to get the iOS PHEV app working. The app kept telling me there was a communication issue and to contact such and such if it continues. I'll keep working on that." I posted this in another thread, your using the wrong app. Check it out here: http://www.fordfusionenergiforum.com/topic/616-myford-mobile/?p=1865 I read your thread when you posted it and I made sure I had the correct app. It was weird, each screen gave me this stupid popup that said there was a communication issue. I just slogged along as it still let me input info and now I finally have the initial communication going. I am now awaiting the 24 hour period. Now, do I need to do this for each device? My wife and I each have an iPhone and an iPad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meyersnole Posted March 17, 2013 at 04:54 AM Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 at 04:54 AM Yes, I think so. The car will make you accept each device that is trying to communicate with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yojroz Posted March 17, 2013 at 05:06 AM Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 at 05:06 AM I should be picking my Energi up this week! I negotiated $500 off with my dealer on top of the Ford $1500 rebate. Do you think they would add the $750 on top of it, or replace the $500 with the $750? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meyersnole Posted March 17, 2013 at 06:13 AM Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 at 06:13 AM The $750 is another rebate, but I am not sure if any of those are still active. Did you order a brochure to try and get that rebate? Make sure to check the expiration date. If it is still active you can always ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_h Posted March 17, 2013 at 04:11 PM Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 at 04:11 PM Are those 18" wheels? I thought the Titanium came with the 18" wheels that looked more like bicycle spokes... those wheels look similar to the 17" wheels I have on my SE Hybrid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TX NRG Posted March 17, 2013 at 05:15 PM Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 at 05:15 PM Are those 18" wheels? I thought the Titanium came with the 18" wheels that looked more like bicycle spokes... those wheels look similar to the 17" wheels I have on my SE Hybrid. Those are 17". The Energi doesn't offer a choice of wheels. :( 17" 15-Spoke Sparkle Silver-Painted Aluminum Standard on Hybrid SE and Fusion Energi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter80 Posted March 17, 2013 at 07:11 PM Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 at 07:11 PM Yup, they are the 17's in sparkle. I'm actually happy with how they look. I didn't think I would be but they're not too bad. As for the $750 coupon, my most recent one was good through March, so they should be able to add it for you. This would be in addition to any negotiated price reduction! I got mine for $900 over invoice. Not as good as some I've heard, but no other dealer in the area wanted to go below MSRP on the Energi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuze Posted March 18, 2013 at 02:46 AM Report Share Posted March 18, 2013 at 02:46 AM Love the color! PlugMeIn and Scooter80 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaggy314 Posted March 19, 2013 at 03:05 AM Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 at 03:05 AM Extended service plans can be not so bad once you know that a) ford sells them to dealers at price X and then don't care about final price b) it doesn't matter which Ford you buy it from... From the boards : http://www.floodfordesp.com/index.php Is supposed to offer great pricing and the piece of mind on a new model car. I'm seriously consider it for my Energi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
http Posted April 6, 2013 at 11:41 PM Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 at 11:41 PM Hello! http in Northern Virginia checking in here. I ordered a Bordeaux Reserve Energi Titanium on 3/14 and can't wait for delivery. No date yet. I got all the options except the Active Park Assist (I know how to parallel park and there are no spaces around here anyway) and I deleted the spoiler. I just joined the forum and can already see that this won't ease my anticipation. Scooter80, your car is perfect and exactly what I hope to receive. Thanks for the photos. Scooter80 and meyersnole 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meyersnole Posted April 7, 2013 at 12:50 AM Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 at 12:50 AM Welcome to the boards http Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter80 Posted April 7, 2013 at 09:20 PM Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 at 09:20 PM Hello! http in Northern Virginia checking in here. I ordered a Bordeaux Reserve Energi Titanium on 3/14 and can't wait for delivery. No date yet. I got all the options except the Active Park Assist (I know how to parallel park and there are no spaces around here anyway) and I deleted the spoiler. I just joined the forum and can already see that this won't ease my anticipation. Scooter80, your car is perfect and exactly what I hope to receive. Thanks for the photos. Very cool! You'll love the color. And the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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