S650 Approach Detection, Ambient Lighting, Exhaust Sounds, Remote Rev (Video)

[BlackFerret69]

Back2Gas

At ~3 minute mark, you mention no setting for the display brightness.

I was reading through the Owner's Manual and found this on page 399:

But it apparently is only for the center stack display.

See if this is true or not.

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[Evo1986]

As mentioned before, 3 out of 4 areas mentioned below are completely missing. That is a really upsetting. I mean for those of you who don't care, okay. But for me personally it is a no-go. I really hope it will be offered in Europe later next year.

 

[FlyNavy86]

As mentioned before, 3 out of 4 areas mentioned below are completely missing. That is a really upsetting. I mean for those of you who don't care, okay. But for me personally it is a no-go. I really hope it will be offered in Europe later next year.

@Ford Motor Company

 

[DTOWN]

Do you have a picture of the hood cover?

It's not a big deal. The hood cover wasn't completely closed.

 

[BlackFerret69]

And apparently the instrument display brightness is controlled as S550 with the dim/bright control on the headlight switch panel:

 

[93-Oct Mayne]

As mentioned before, 3 out of 4 areas mentioned below are completely missing. That is a really upsetting. I mean for those of you who don't care, okay. But for me personally it is a no-go. I really hope it will be offered in Europe later next year.

Seriously ambient lighting only applying to the front footwell and door handles is insane. This is both really lame, and also false advertising by @Ford Motor Company

 

[Back2Gas]

I forgot to mention that this is not my video

My S650 is stuck at New Boston

 

[BrianJ77]

As mentioned before, 3 out of 4 areas mentioned below are completely missing. That is a really upsetting. I mean for those of you who don't care, okay. But for me personally it is a no-go. I really hope it will be offered in Europe later next year.

Is this for the 401a package? Wondering if package levels have something to do with the ambient lighting? I'm a sucker for cool interior lights, too. Wife's Acura lights up like an aircraft flight deck which I love. C'mon, Ford. Deliver what was promised!

Edit: I can't find in the order guide where this screenshot is, but the 401a includes illuminated door sill scuff plates. Mine better light up!

 

[Dragster]

I went back and watched a couple of the early videos on YouTube after the reveal (Raiti's Rides and Doug DeMuro), and from what I could tell, the cupholders did not have the LED ring at the bottom. Granted these were early preproduction cars (they may have actually been the same car), but that seems like a pretty cheap decision by Ford to omit the ambient lighting there. I always liked the ambient lighting on my 2015.

 

[rchandler9]

My 2011 Shelby has better ambient lighting Not impressed a downgrade. They were the only ambient lighting you could see clearly the others are barely perceptible. Fords negligible savings on No cup holders lamp is a Ludicrously poor decision. SHAME!

I agree! They did the same thing with our 22’ Expedition. Our 18’ Expedition had cup holder lights but the 22’ does not. I was sad.

 

[rchandler9]

Is this for the 401a package? Wondering if package levels have something to do with the ambient lighting? I'm a sucker for cool interior lights, too. Wife's Acura lights up like an aircraft flight deck which I love. C'mon, Ford. Deliver what was promised!

Edit: I can't find in the order guide where this screenshot is, but the 401a includes illuminated door sill scuff plates. Mine better light up!

My 700a Dark Horse better have them too!

 

[Stratman397]

I remember seeing something about the rear footwells lighting up aswell. I hope that is the case as I am someone who really enjoys ambient lighting and am disappointed with what I saw in the video. Mercedes has the best interior lighting in the industry.

I know my 2022 Audi A5 had awesome ambient lighting

 

[Evo1986]

Those ambient light are not expensive either. I mean the wires and LED strings come from China anyway. Having less in a newer car is not acceptable!

 

[MustangMac67]

Those ambient light are not expensive either. I mean the wires and LED strings come from China anyway. Having less in a newer car is not acceptable!

To put that into perspective. Lets say that those strips cost 10 cents each. Ford puts 4 in each car. Ford produces say, 240,000 s650's through out the entire production run. That is $96k. Not a lot for ford. If they were to charge 80 cents for the whole package they would gain 96k in revenue per year. They are definitely cheaping out on us

 

[krisk]

I have absolutely no inside knowledge, but it seems to me the missing ambient lighting is likely a supplier issue rather than Ford trying to cut costs. Assuming Ford could not procure the necessary parts, they had two realistic options. 1 - Delay the release of the cars or 2 - Produce the cars without all the ambient lighting. I expect Ford figured it was better to stick to the initial timeline than delay production for a minor feature. Not minimizing the fact people were expecting the full ambient lighting as part of their buying decisions, but as a whole it is a minor item and not worth delaying production.

Where I think Ford has messed up is in not communicating the change to the customers. At a minimum they could have provided a note on the builder regarding the change or sent an email to those who ordered early. People do not like it when they are told one thing, then left to discover for themselves that they did not get what was promised.

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