You definitely made a good choice. I love Panthers as much as anybody but you, like me, live in the salt belt and it is taking its toll on my car as well. The Fusion will likely be more reliable at this point being that much newer, they're safer (let's be real, Panthers were great at front impacts, side impacts, yikes), Ford Hybrids are known to be super reliable and just in fuel over the course of 80,000 miles at an average $3.50 a gallon you'll save $9,000 in fuel alone (it's almost $7 here in Canada so those savings would be even $17k for me lol). Insane right? It may not be as fun to drive but will serve you well. I'm likely going to be getting a newer car this year. My heart I want an AWD Charger (but obviously not most reliable or mpg efficient) or likely a Camry or FFH like you have. Ford really should've updated and kept making the Fusion but they were lazy and killed it. It was their most reliable car they actively made (throwback to 2011 with the Panthers seems like a trend LOL).

Very cool! The only thing I don’t like is the battery pack takes a lot of trunk space

8:13 I think that "Engage" is just the name of that menu, as it shows everything related to the powertrain. I could be wrong on that, though.

I have a video on the tire mobility kit it you want to have a look. Also the light switch should let you turn it on off. Not sure why yours does not. New ones aren’t super expensive though.

My forerunner is getting an average of 18 miles per gallon and mixed driving

we made cars in the 90s that got 40 miles per gallon. so.... what are we saving?

Do you want from terrible gas, mileage to amazing gas mileage…. What are you gonna do it all that extra money now