The side curtain airbags have “roll fold” technology, allowing them to unfurl and slip between the car’s glass and a passenger’s head that might be resting on the window (read: sleepy backseat teenager on a road trip). It also senses and helps prevent potential rollovers. This system includes a stability control system with gyroscopic sensors to cut down on sliding and fishtailing. Would you believe that every week in the United States 50 children are backed over by cars, most in their own driveway by their own parents or caregivers? (Speaking of safety, the Mountaineer has what those clever Ford/Lincoln/Mercury marketers call the Personal Safety System. A reverse sensing system adds to the vehicle’s safety and my peace of mind. The DVD system with wireless headphones (another $1,295) keeps the kids entertained on long road trips, and again is one of the easiest to operate that I’ve come across. The touch-screen navigation system offered for the first time this year (an extra $1,995) is intelligent yet useable even for those of us without advanced computer programming degrees. ![]() Third-row seats that fold up and down via a button located in the cargo area prove to be very helpful in transforming this vehicle from toting carpool to toting garage-sale finds. Mercury was smart enough to integrate plenty of family-friendly features in the Mountaineer to really pull us in. Sixty percent of Mountaineer customers are anticipated to be women this year, and we all know that we women are the real head of our households. I can’t keep the carpet in my house clean, but by gosh I’m trying with all my might to keep the car’s carpet clean. Even better, the running boards stay relatively free of ice and mud, helping me keep the car’s carpet clean. Here’s what I’ve come up with: They might just increase fuel mileage via improved aerodynamics (OK, maybe not enough to even measure, but every ounce counts when I’m driving a V-8 and gas prices are what they are). You know Yahooty -he’s the guy who makes the floors in our house creak when we walk on them, turns on and off the refrigerator light and was blamed today for spilling an entire bottle of purple body shimmer on the carpet in my daughter’s room when she was supposed to be getting ready for bed.Īside from being a great conversation piece, I’m trying to figure out what purpose the $695 “integrated automatic deployable running boards” serve. I explain this to my children as being operated by Yahooty. ![]() Well, it’s not exactly the doors that create that wow factor, but rather the automatic running boards that subsequently, magically extend then disappear every time a door is opened or closed. ![]() Opening and closing the doors on the 2006 Mercury Mountaineer elicits big wows everywhere we go.
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