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Seems one of the 31 metro Detroit Ford dealers has gotten cute and worked up a Ford Flex woody to entice customers in to buy the station wagon/van/crossover. According to Motor Trend 's Todd Lassa, the Flex in question is your basic stripper model, so the woody option makes it all the more innuendo-tastic, but that's no big deal as the option apparently carries no extra charge on the window sticker. Considering the pending malaise II era breathing down our necks, we wouldn't be surprised if this kind of thing starts coming from the factory. [ MotorTrend ]
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Ford PR Flack: "We wanted to give the Flex what we call a 'wow' factor." Random Auto Journalist: "Wow, can I quote you on that?" Press launches are interesting places. Well, if you find humanity in its most mundane and sycophantic form interesting that is. Full Disclosure: I didn't actually drive the 2009 Ford Flex , but I did sit in the passenger seat nursing my gimpy arm while Ray drove and opined on the experience. galleryPost('flexhero', 6, 'Flextacular'); galleryPost('flexexterior', 6, 'Flextastic'); galleryPost('flexinterior', 6, 'Flex-not-so-much'); I don't know when it happened, but at some point in its history, reviewing cars became the domain of the boring, the middle aged and the overweight. It also lost its way, becoming yet another tool for the industry to market its products (something akin to long-form, text-based advertising), rather than a critical method for helping consumers make informed...
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Despite the news of the eminent demise of the Ford Taurus X , we're now not as concerned because we just got our first ride in the 2009 Ford Flex . A very hip Ford rep dropped by our extremely touristgasmic digs near Times Square to give us a ride over to dinner and get a little free press for Ford's new hauler. Despite a couple of syntax errors with the next-gen GPS system, which worked fine after we used the correct name of the city, the slab sided super wagon was off to the races a slow crawl through the streets of Gotham. galleryPost('09fordflexride', 9, 'Ford Flex in Driving Miss Jalopnik'); Even though we were a little bit lukewarm over the design when we first saw the production version, on the streets the Flex actually looks pretty cool. Since we were being treated to a ride 'chauffeur style', the back seats are our area of expertise. The seats are firm and they travel on tracks so you can go all the way from huge legroom in the middle row and a reasonable...
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