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About a week ago my wife traded in her 2010 Equinox on a Ford C-Max Hybrid. It's not the car of my dreams but she really wanted a Hybrid so I have to keep her happy. It's loaded with all the goodies including leather and the glass roof. The Ford "My Touch" and SYNC are pretty cool... If you've never driven a Hybrid it's like driving a video game! There are 2 LED screens on either side of the speedo and a large one in the center of the dash that "coach" you into driving your best. With around 200 miles on it we are averaging around 44 MPG.

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We had zero issues with our Equinox over 3 years and 24K miles. The only complaint was we fealt the 4 cyl engine (although adequate) was rather noisy. The "white noise cancelation" worked well inside the cabin but outside the car ours was the noisiest one I had ever heard!

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That's good to hear, I feel like that 4cyl is weak lol. Makes all kinds of noise but doesn't go anywhere lol. I have no complaints yet either tho...great on fuel...

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I'd lose my mind with a car telling me how to drive. I'd break out the e-tape for sure.

 

So how is the Mytouch? I saw it released at CES in 2010. We had a second space next to our Microsoft booth that had 4 or 5 cars all with the system. The coolest was this honkin Dewalt truck that tracked all the tools.

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The owners manual is over 500 pages! I am trying to learn by experimenting but I am afraid I will have to read some of it! The touch and voice controls are very good and the NAV is stored on a SD card. I probably won't drive it very much because I have better things i my garage! Haha!

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