I think my husband hates me. All he wants to do on weekends is take a nap by the pool, and I prefer to use our time together to get things done. And bought.
This weekend, we purchased a 127-gallon outdoor storage bin to hold our rainbow crop of styrofoam pool noodles.
And then we went back the next day for a 36-inch-high eight-cube shelf and and eight fabric storage bins.
Unassembled, neither item was particularly unwieldy, but the Flex's low load-height and power rear hatch made it easy for my husband to move the boxes from the red shopping cart to the carpeted cargo-hold.
For me, the Ford Flex is the perfect shopping companion. Whether its our first trip to Target that weekend, or our fifth, the Flex and I never squabble about what I want to buy, or who's going to put it together when we get home.
Kelly Toepke, News Editor @ 28,223 miles
firstwagon says:
04:00 PM, 07/20/09
Thank for helping the economic recovery but I do admire your husbands method of stress reduction more.
dougtheeng says:
06:35 AM, 07/21/09
I'd take the nap by the pool option.
rick8365 says:
07:12 AM, 07/21/09
What is that other (3rd) rod on the liftgate for - powered open and close?
I tried to watch a half hour of SPEED last night before going to bed and had a a couple of questions/suggestions of what else I could do with my time mentioned to me.....yous girls are all the same! :-(
legacygt says:
08:20 AM, 07/22/09
The 3rd rod is for the power open/close and it looks like an afterthought on this and many other cars that offer it. I know it's an option and a convenience that was unheard of just a few years ago but I hate the way the mechanism is tacked on. More importantly I've found that it cuts into the size of the opening for the hatch on many vehicles. For most items this isn't an issue but there's always the item that "just fits" into the rear hatch of even the mightiest of haulers.
Kelly, can you and others at Edmunds comment on how the power mechanism does or doesn't infringe on the size of the hatch opening in the Flex and other tested vehicles? Thanks.