Gear shift where windshield wipers were

[corradoborg]

It is far too easy to miss your target click because the detects are pitifully vague. If you drive at 98% like I sometimes/often do you don’t have time to carefully braille your way into another gear selection. Give me the stick that came with my T/A that can be set to give you one gear position change while hammering corners, braking, using the go pedal, etc. for an automatic any day of the week over the abomination that Ford foisted upon us. Yes, I can use the rotary shifter and regularly do without looking at it (who said I had to look at it?), but it’s an effort that I would rather spend driving than trying to figure out. It just does not belong in the GT.

Guess I have very sensitive fingers, as the detents are utterly obvious to me. And again, going from reverse to drive, you don't even need to count detents. As long as you get past neutral, you're in drive, even if you spin the dial a bunch of detents beyond.
And I must be a timid driver, too, because I can't imagine ever needing to change gears so fast that the dial would be a problem. The limiting factor to me seems to be the transmission itself. If I try to change from forward to reverse (or vice versa) too quickly, it clunks around and makes me uncomfortable, thinking I'm going to break something. Are the GT's transmissions that much better that this isn't an issue?

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[Charge_Rob]

The column shifter addressed one of my big complaints with my 2021 and 2023. I'm so happy the 2025 has the column shifter - and that it's done the way it is with no need to pull forward first like GM's shifter. I wish my F-150 Lightning also had it.

 

[kamorela]

I prefer the dial.

Ditto, after 10 years of Ford Fusion driving with the dial shifter it's become a convenient habit for me.

 

[SuzieN]

I started with a 2025, so didn't need to adjust from using the dial on the center cosole. However my previous vehicle had the shifter knob on the console, and I have to say that the stalk shifter in the current MME is VERY convenient, being that I dont even need to remove my hand from the steering wheel to switch vehicle directions, or go into park.

do you find when you start the car sometimes you have to restart to get the gear to go into reverse or drive? i have to restart to get it to shift out of neutral -maybe Im doing something wrong???

 

[NY_Cade69]

Although I haven't had a column shift in ages (last was in the early '90s - a '69 Cadillac)
I find the column shift makes things like park/unpark much simpler, especially since Ford deconted Active Park Assist, can change between Drive/Reverse without taking my hands off the steering wheel...

 

[25_SW_GT]

do you find when you start the car sometimes you have to restart to get the gear to go into reverse or drive? i have to restart to get it to shift out of neutral -maybe Im doing something wrong???

I have not experienced exactly what you have described, however there were multiple times where the car would not go into gear (drive or reverse) on the first try, but it always went into gear on the next try (without having to restart the vehicle). I was just chalking it up to good ol' user error, but I did receive an OTA software update a month or two ago for the shifter, and I have not had the issue happen since. Sorry I couldn't provide any help.

 

[NY_Cade69]

I have not experienced exactly what you have described, however there were multiple times where the car would not go into gear (drive or reverse) on the first try, but it always went into gear on the next try (without having to restart the vehicle). I was just chalking it up to good ol' user error, but I did receive an OTA software update a month or two ago for the shifter, and I have not had the issue happen since. Sorry I couldn't provide any help.

Whenever that has happened to my, it was due to not doing the 2 clicks...

 

[Jimrpa]

Better heat exchange on super-hot days?

For which system? I do know what a radiator does, but we do not have a huge lump of iron burning dead dinosaur juice in our cars. What changed that Ford had to increase the radiator size, other than the addition of a heat pump?

 

[NY_Cade69]

I think the radiator is the same part on the '25+ as the '21-'24???

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

What is the benefit of a larger radiator (other than as a component of the heat pump)?

Better heat exchange on super-hot days?

Cooler running is always better. Unless you're talking heaters.

I live in Central Coast California, so the heat pump probably isn't going to make a huge difference for me

A mach-e heat pump isn't going to make the slightest bit of difference in Aptos.

 

[Fremont Kid]

Here is a comment to any Ford Account Managers who monitor this blog site: Promote human ergonomic/factor testing that Ford completes when introducing new driving functions or changing function locations, e.g. transmission shifters. Based on comments regarding the shifter location change I'm concluding that Ford did test how well drivers would adjust to the new 'stalk' location. However, I'm NOT comforted with the new location because Ford has not explained the human ergonomic/factors testing, and that some drivers require a substantial (my term) adjustment period.

Another example: I own a '22 Premium. Because the road speed limit and cruise control speed displays on the right side of the dash display, and the speaker volume is on the right side of the steering wheel basically under and in line with the speed control, my mind sometimes unconsciously processes that changing the cruising speed is controlled by the volume control. Maybe once in a couple hundred instances, so not a lot. Only after a song is played way too loud does my brain re-engage to correct. Sharing that Ford conducted human factors research to conclude this positioning would not be problematic would help me as a user understand this positioning. Provide the customer a comfort level!

 

[corradoborg]

A mach-e heat pump isn't going to make the slightest bit of difference in Aptos.

Yeah. The only benefit I see is that I generally drive north to Portland every year for the holidays. The longer-range battery and the heat pump will help me then.

 

[Jimrpa]

Cooler running is always better. Unless you're talking heaters.

A mach-e heat pump isn't going to make the slightest bit of difference in Aptos.

I don’t mean to sound stupid, but what are they trying to cool that was changed, requiring a larger radiator? Or was the radiator undersized in the earlier vehicles? I don’t recall seeing many issues involving xxx (whatever xxx is) not being sufficiently cooled?

 

[NY_Cade69]

The radiator is the same, in the same position (in front of the same fan)
What took up space and ate into the frunk is the heat pump.
Its purpose is to make heating and cooling processes more efficient (especially in colder temps.)
Incorporating the heat pump into the 25+ Mach-E in no way implies that the prior years were under-cooled, just less efficient.

 

[markboris]

The radiator is the same, in the same position (in front of the same fan)
What took up space and ate into the frunk is the heat pump.
Its purpose is to make heating and cooling processes more efficient (especially in colder temps.)
Incorporating the heat pump into the 25+ Mach-E in no way implies that the prior years were under-cooled, just less efficient.

The condenser is larger in the '25 and up Mach-E's. That is why they had to slant it and the frunk is smaller.

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