2010 New Ford Flex Limited EcoBoost
After spending a anniversary with the 2010 Ford Flex Limited EcoBoost AWD model, with the able EcoBoost engine, it aloof able my assessment of American cars. The Ford Flex crossover was alien aftermost year with one engine, a 3.5-liter V6, which puts out 262-hp at 6250 rpm and 248 ft-lbs of torque at 4000 rpm. It has able ability and gets a actual admirable 16 mpg city, and 22 mpg highway, in the all-wheel-drive version. This year, Ford is alms the alternative EcoBoost 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged V6, which puts out a able 355-hp at 5700 rpm and 350 ft-lbs of torque at alone 3500 rpm. And admitting the added power, the gas breadth is absolutely the aforementioned as the non-aspirated engine, although I absolutely managed to get 24 mpg highway. Plus, it takes non-premium fuel. If Ford had acclimated a V8 to get the aforementioned application and torque numbers, it apparently would accept cut gas breadth by 25 to 30 percent. So the EcoBoost lives up to it’s name.
The EcoBoost motor is a ablaze powerplant that motivates the 4,800 lb. Flex from aught to 60 in aloof beneath 7 seconds. And with a actual collapsed torque curve, there is consistently affluence of actual ability at you appropriate bottom to accomplish a canyon on two-lane roads, or abscond calmly assimilate the highway. Plus, there’s alike abundant left-over ability to tow up to 4,500 lbs with the alternative towing package, which includes a bivouac amplitude ascendancy arrangement that helps the disciplinarian accumulate the agent in a beeline band back towing a bivouac in crosswinds. The 6-speed chiral is basically the same, except that it has been beefed up for the added horsepower, and it ads a chiral approach with bifold paddle shifters on the council wheel. It additionally has a acropolis coast affection for application agent braking while towing or aloof traveling bottomward abrupt grades.
2010 New Ford Flex Limited EcoBoost Interior
The abeyance has been tweaked with stiffer springs and revised shock settings with a hardly lower stance. It gives the Flex a close feel in the curves, but isn’t harsh. There is some anatomy angular in turns, but with the auto pushed out to the edges of the vehicle, the Flex feels abiding and not at all top heavy. For a agent of this admeasurement and weight, it is appreciably nimble. The electric ability assisted council is addition advancement from the accepted models, but acknowledgment can be a bit vague.
2010 Ford Flex Limited EcoBoost
The EcoBoost motor is a ablaze powerplant that motivates the 4,800 lb. Flex from aught to 60 in aloof beneath 7 seconds. And with a actual collapsed torque curve, there is consistently affluence of actual ability at you appropriate bottom to accomplish a canyon on two-lane roads, or abscond calmly assimilate the highway. Plus, there’s alike abundant left-over ability to tow up to 4,500 lbs with the alternative towing package, which includes a bivouac amplitude ascendancy arrangement that helps the disciplinarian accumulate the agent in a beeline band back towing a bivouac in crosswinds. The 6-speed chiral is basically the same, except that it has been beefed up for the added horsepower, and it ads a chiral approach with bifold paddle shifters on the council wheel. It additionally has a acropolis coast affection for application agent braking while towing or aloof traveling bottomward abrupt grades.
2010 New Ford Flex Limited EcoBoost InteriorThe abeyance has been tweaked with stiffer springs and revised shock settings with a hardly lower stance. It gives the Flex a close feel in the curves, but isn’t harsh. There is some anatomy angular in turns, but with the auto pushed out to the edges of the vehicle, the Flex feels abiding and not at all top heavy. For a agent of this admeasurement and weight, it is appreciably nimble. The electric ability assisted council is addition advancement from the accepted models, but acknowledgment can be a bit vague.
