Okay, it’s also much more expensive than the average spa day, though if you’re part of the uber-rich that blow 100 grand on a Monaco weekend, the $54,760 2016 Ford Explorer Platinum is pocket change.
Waiting in stop-and-go traffic is frustrating not only because it makes you feel as if you’re getting nowhere very slowly, but because it requires you to do the world’s most boring and tedious dance on the gas and brake pedals with your right foot. The 2017 Ford Fusion has the ability to change that.
Ford recently invited me up to its Dearborn, Michigan headquarters to attend a series of press conferences about its ongoing experiments in the field of what it calls “Smart Mobility.”