The dreaded dilemma that ford cant decide what people want but they make 95% of them all one way and then 8-10 years later flip to the other choice!!
I have a 2nd gen Navigator and it seems almost all of these had the console and captains or buckets and I hate them. I want the 2nd row bench.
Our 1st gen Expedition XLT has cloth and 2nd bench.
Seems lots of people wanted the bench for various reasons and now most of the newer ones have been bench for years.
I guess they will flip back to console in 2025.
IDIOTS!!!
QUIT EQUIPPING cars how you want to FORD and other makers!!!!
You make both ways so don't worry about it. Make the buyer check the box to decide.
DO NOT have "default" one way.
OH BUT we have screwed up and even way before the instant -do it on our phone world- got here, we were wanting to go look at cars and "TAKE ONE HOME" so they started filling lots with cars and you have to take what they have.
I am THAT GUY who would have ONLY been special ordering and waiting 6 weeks or longer to get my vehicle!
But then there might be a scratch on it and I will have no paint work done on it and I got too cheap and cars got too overpriced so it is MUCH easier to buy used.
Now with everything on the internet even more so. I find the color I want with the interior material and color I want and find the one I like the best.
I had no idea how much I prefer the 2nd bench over the buckets until I had it.
Also, I will never have power running boards again. I wasn't aware the Navigators came both ways. I could have done more research but was busy ranting about new car manufacurers-probably- so I missed that.
Mine work fine but I know they will not forever. They are just not as sturdy and substantial as nice factory rubber coated fixed ones.
I'm probably going to sell mine anyway as I had several SUVs then had 2 sedans for over 8 years. I thought I wanted to be able to haul stuff in back easier but I find I will probably just go back to a town car.
A good deal easier to work on than a truck chassis and you don't hear the crap you have in the back like a toolbox, socket set, or smell gas when you transport cans or a mower.
Harder to put a mower in a TC trunk but if you leave the handle sticking out it's just as quick. If you fold the handle you can still fit at least one body in there with the mower and shut the trunk lid no problem. I've had three bodies in the trunk of 98+ TC before with still room for a bag or two of cement.