TTAC Rewind: 2019 Ford Edge ST First Drive
For your perusal this fine fall evening, we present a first drive from the autumn of 2018.
We sent Mr. Posky to Utah to drive this Ford, and his thoughts are linked here. Make some cider, spiked or not, or a cup of hot cocoa, and give this a read.
Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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Is this the infamous engine with the water pump built into the engine block?
• "I predict they sell about 127 of them." - FreedMike, Oct 9, 2018
• "...Ford sold roughly 18,000 units of the Edge ST in 2019..." https://fordauthority.com/2020/06/ford-edge-st-sales-are-thus-far-exceeding-expectations/
I liked the first-gen Edge better. The styling was more coherent, the interior was less cost-cut, and all trims had a nice-sounding 3.5 or 3.7 V6 rather than the two point oh tee that comes in everything but the ST.
The 2022 version of this has the same dashboard, but the infotainment screen is now long like a Tesla and they swapped out the v6 for 2.0 4 banger.