I'm also in Las Vegas (Northwest) and we went with the Mach-E FE AWD EXT. Since this is a daily driver, we wanted better traction during inclement weather. Between monsoon season (Late June-July) and winter rain and snow (January several inches of snow last year) safety won out over the extra...
If anyone is looking for a custom front windshield sun shade, take a look at https://www.artisticreflection.com/eyeshades. We just received our "custom" sun shade and we love it. Since this was a "custom" item, it took six weeks to arrive.
I was looking for an alternative to the bumper plugs and found this article https://bit.ly/3rZh2QE. Went to the local Ace Hardware and picked up the nylon plugs (5 @.37), then some touch up paint from the body shop $20 and finally a small Princeton Brush Level 2 5/0 brush from Michaels $7.44...