The 2009 Ford Flex: Chief Engineer Gary Boes explains

The 2009 Ford Flex is a stunning car and Chief Engineer Gary Boes explains a little more about its features. The exterior of the car will get most people’s attention, but the interior will keep it. Boes explains and said “We have the sync technology, which is the voice recognition and activation of all of your audio controls, like your MP3 player and we also have a refrigerator, we like to sort of joke about it, we’re the first car in the world with a fridge and sync”. The compressor-driven fridge cools 40 percent faster than a home refrigerator, he explains “It can cool liquids or whatever you would want, it holds seven cans of pop and it does it in about third less time then your home refrigerator, so it’s very accessible and very convenient. It has a refrigerator mode and a freezer mode.”

Boes explains that the design of the Ford Flex is built based on what the consumers want; he said, “We don’t really care what people have done in the past, right? We wanted something that was an emotive design we wanted something that created that emotion and we wanted to put content in there that was out of the ordinary but yet desired by the customer, and so yea I think we really did unbutton our vest and really stepped back and gave the customer something they really want.”

They created a car that has individual space for passengers, adults or children and Boes said “We worked very hard on an individual space for kids in the back so if they look up they have their own individual sky-light, they have the refrigerator between them, they have a 110 volt power source, so they can play their MP3 players or their play stations, so we really tried to make an individual space for both kids and adults.”

The Ford Flex arrives in showrooms this summer with a starting price of just under $29,000.