Saturday, I was listening to a radio talk show about cars and the auto biz in general. It was on that program I heard that Ford is launching a new Platinum series Superduty. It was described as a trim level above that of the King Ranch, if you can feature that. The host said to look for a MSRP north of 70k and maybe as much as 75k.

Not to mention, you get all of the fancy touch screen stuffs engineered for use with gloves on!

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/03/09/ford-unveils-2013-f-series-super-duty-with-more-tech-than-ever-b/

HMMMM, nothing like that yet..........just did web based training for electric Focus though.

What a load. It's not "optimized" to work with gloves. It just uses an older style resistive screen instead of the newer capacitive screens you see on phones and tablets. Resistive screens don't need actual skin contact to function correctly but they're also not as sensitive/responsive to touch and don't support multi-touch.

Remember those twisty-type things they used to put in trucks to control the heat and stuff? "Knobs" I think they called 'em. You could work those with gloves on, too- they worked pretty good.

john112deere said:

Remember those twisty-type things they used to put in trucks to control the heat and stuff? "Knobs" I think they called 'em. You could work those with gloves on, too- they worked pretty good.

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Can I get an Amen.

UTfball68 said:

Can I get an Amen.

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AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah but those don't make you feel rich.

Ryan

Skandocious said:

What a load. It's not "optimized" to work with gloves. It just uses an older style resistive screen instead of the newer capacitive screens you see on phones and tablets. Resistive screens don't need actual skin contact to function correctly but they're also not as sensitive/responsive to touch and don't support multi-touch.

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A good resistive screen can be better than some of the cheaper capacitive screens.

O'Rattlecan said:

Yeah but those don't make you feel rich.

Ryan

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Rich people are evil.

FordF-SuperDuty said:

A good resistive screen can be better than some of the cheaper capacitive screens.

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Can you back that up?

O'Rattlecan said:

Yeah but those don't make you feel rich.

Ryan

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I feel rich in my truck now that it has the faux Rosewood dash!


And a sliding rear window.

We are the 99%!!!!!!

Ryan

john112deere said:

Remember those twisty-type things they used to put in trucks to control the heat and stuff? "Knobs" I think they called 'em. You could work those with gloves on, too- they worked pretty good.

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UTfball68 said:

Can I get an Amen.

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amkatt1 said:

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Knobs? go on... what is this thing called knob? 2 of my 3 trucks still have the levers for climate control, and they work great with gloves on...

And they didn't even call it "Climate Control" back then... heat or air conditioning. or defrost.