"’I've seen various reviewers bemoan the fact that the 2019 Edge ST, which replaces last year’s Edge Sport, doesn’t behave like some crazed track rat, squishing your eyeballs with its accelerative forces while scooting and rotating like a weasel with ADD. Hello."
Well, dear sir. Ford shouldn't have given it the ST appellation then, now should it? 4597 lbs of doofus SUV when the Germans seem to be able to make their "performance" SUVs handle. This ST is just another Edge trim option with a disinformative name and a bit of a spring stiffness upgrade.
Apparently we are supposed to share the opinions of the jaded, world-weary, enervated and unconcerned journo who wrote a rebuttal of other people's takes on the vehicle in his own "review". That should stop the silly buggers complaining about this cynical marketing exercise. And it allows blame to shift from his delicate self to consumers who "ought to know better" and reviewers willing to criticize Ford. I'd say his press credentials for future automaker junkets are safe and sound. Now we have to wait and observe the take rate on the Edge ST to see if Ford's posturing works. If it does, expect to see the upcoming Ford F150 King Ranch ST shatter the Nurburgring lap record for schoolbuses.
