I'm almost afraid to start a list, it could get ugly.
2015 Explorer Sport, 5,000 miles.
Annoying;
Odd wind noises at speed, thrumming and deep bass notes that put pressure on my ear drums. Strange, never would have expected that. Maybe it's loose trim.
High step over to get into the front seats. Why?
No comfortable place to rest your arm and steer. Time lapse would have me look like I'm swimming as I constantly switch arms as my shoulders tire out.
You have to manually lower the headrest before using the power flip for the second row seats.
Bad;
Visibility is not good. High window sills, blunt nose with rounded corners, big blind spots because the rear wiper only clears a small portion of the back window.
No HID headlights.
Gas tank too small, needs ~25 gallon tank IMO.
Stink after a full throttle run. Yes 2015 and it is still there...
It gets ugly here;
The capacitive touch buttons below the touch screen are too sensitive and you have to look at them to know what you are touching. You have to take your eye off the road. Around town doing 30, no problemo. Doing 75, at night surrounded by big rigs and wind pushing you around, no bueno.
Sync+NAV, just sucks. Slow, complicated and just plain infuriating. Maddening if you resort to using the screen because Sync thinks you said "preset four" instead of "Christmas Store". We pulled over and I used my phone to find an address for a POI that NAV couldn't find by name. Surprise after 40 minutes it couldn't get us to that address either, we gave up. My wife went from telling me to calm down to screaming at the car.
Navigation, absolutely the worst nav tool I have ever used. Can't find POI's, and when it did it took us 20 miles away to an empty lot. The neat on screen displays of the lanes to follow for on and off ramps were right about 50% of the time and frequently didn't match the voice instructions. It is frustratingly slow to use as it crawls through menu after menu. Low bidder, eh Ford?
Sync + Nav will likely be the reason my next vehicle will not be a Ford. After 36 years of only Fords, this may be the last new Ford I buy. Next trip, my 5 year old Garmin (with lifetime updates for a one time fee of $100) will be on the dash.
I'm glad I waited a day after my trip to type this up as yesterday I was really uspet...
It's a really nice vehicle that feels like the engineers ran out of time/budget. It feels unfinished and not worthy of a $50K sticker price. If it had not been so awesome in the rain and on the ice and snow I'd be looking for a way out the lease now.