What's Wrong With This Picture: 2013 Flex Hits The Funkmaster Edition
Published: November 8th, 2011
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Thought the Flex’s 2013 update would be a subtle tweak? Thought Ford might even tone down its freakiest minivan alternative? Think again, fool. Beaten down by jive turkey crossovers with less personality than a dealer finance rep, the Ford Flex has been hitting the funkmaster hard in hopes of working up a little sales mojo. But will a new, more design-appropriate front-end do the trick? Will this update put the Flex back on shopping lists? Or is the big box CUV still just too freaked-out for the familial mainstream?
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The Flex would look great if it was the size of the Escape. It's just too big. Ford should just go ahead and make a damn mini-van again already. Ford's experiments with mini-van like Flex and Lincoln MKT have been sales flops.
Does this new styling make it look less square? I say that because to me, it's mainly a big, square box. The original Scion didn't appeal to me for the same reason, but I recognized that it had a certain hipness and appeal to it. This is for the family driver who wants to be hip? It looks like they're adding a polarizing look (of the frontal band) on top of the original polarizing look.