Last year, when my honda was is in for repairs I rented a 2006 Ford
Escort. Everytime I turned the key, all the doors were locked. Everytime
I got out of the car, all the doors were locked - except the driver
door. What a huge pain when you have little kids to go round and
unbuckle etc. When I returned the car, I made a polite comment to the
Avis person about it, she laughed saying "EVERYONE hates that".

Last week, on a business trip, I rented a 2007 Ford Explorer. Same
annoying crap. Doors automatically lock the way Ford thinks I want my
doors to operate. Cant even disable that 'feature'. If I want my doors
to be locked, I would lock them.

But thats not all. The lights have a similar kind of "automatic
behavior". The windows too - press the "Down" button just right and it
will "automatically" go all the way (kinda like that one). Even the
radio/CD player has its quirks. The "deluxe audio" package has multi
disk player support, even tells you the name of teh FM station you're
listening to, and even tells you the name of the song being played on
FM-Radio! But, it wont play MP3 CDs! Duh. I smell "marketing focus
groups" at work.

Things like this say to me that Ford, and probably the other US auto
companies, still "dont get it". They spend more time and energy on
stupid things like "annoying automatic door locks" rather than just an
all around better quality/lower cost car. Sure they've come a long way
in quality, but, still too much emphasis on the wrong "needs".

Your thoughts?

I'm a Chevey girl. Fords have always sucked! Good workhorse trucks, but
the rest suck!

I OWN A 78 BRONCO IT`S MY HUNTING /BOGGING TRUCK--FORD MOTORS
SUCK---CHEVY POWER HELL YEAH---BUT I DRVE A TOYOTA TACOMA4X4 GOOD ON GAS
& I KNOW I`LL GET WHERE I`M GOING

FORD=
Fix or repair daily

Found on road dead

i agree, unforntunately thats all ive been driving over that last few
years... if it will kill them to make a car that goes 45 mpg why not
work on quality and durability? nahh too much like right... what fool
consumer would want that....

FORD=F**KI`N OLE ROAD DOG

FORD=FLIPPED OR ROLLED DAILY.CHEVROLET/GMC TRUCKS
RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DODGE=DAMNED OL DAKOTA GOT EVERYTHING.
MY OPINION.TAKE IT,OR LEAVE IT.