Ford... Oh FFS!!!

  I have to admit I've always been a bit of a Ford fanboy.  Over the years I've had loads. Two cortinas, a corsair, two escorts (one a van my fav)  two sierras, a transit (also great) and two feista company cars.
 Fords have always had "issues", the electrial systems were famous for lighting problems, the bulbholders were terrible, my transit finally ended up with the wires soldered to the bulbs because the holders never worked
 The other thing they were famous for was spare parts, due to Fords unique way of sourcing parts one year model might have six different distributor caps and four different headlamps. This was a pain in the arse when you needed a new part. For example my transit headlamps depended on what colour bumpers and the mirror shape to determine the correct ones, not the year and model like other make cars.
 Now sadly with the newer models Ford have moved on to the next stage of making life a bastard for owners.
 I'm unlucky enough to have a mondeo.  Nice enough car, as it's an estate it's bloody huge but hey, like all Fords it has a good heater. But good luck changing a headlamp bulb, easy enough, just remove the cover plate, the grill, take out some screws and remove the whole bloody headlamp fitting. Why FFS! just about every other car had a flap on the back of the headlamp unit. Open that and change the bulb, not dismantle half the fucking car to change a £2 bulb.
 Yesterday my battery started playing up, no problems, just get a new one...  except Ford has placed a 50 lb battery about as far back to the firewall as it can, and boxed it in so you have to take half the engine off to get the fucker out. Just reaching it is tricky unless you have arms like Guy the gorilla. Why even box it in? every other car I've had has a battery clamped onto a battery tray, you undo the cables, unscrew the bracket holding the battery in place and bingo job done. Not on my car, it took a mechanic 30 minutes to swap it.
 Even better when the battery goes you cant open the boot to get your tools, so if you have jump leads and a Ford, keep them on the passenger seat.
 The last part of Fords make life a bitch for owners is a real clever one. The radio stops because it needs a code, why?, it's built in, it cant be swopped to anything else, and the iceing on the fucking cake, the windows.... Yes the fucking windows.  Disconnect the battery and the windows forget how to work and have to be recallibrated!  FFS who thought that one up. Please if there is a God I want 5 minues alone with the person who thought that was clever, only 5 minutes... it'll be enough.. for me to "have a word in his shell like" just before I rip his head off.
 Seriously folks, how is this making things better?  In what way does hiding the battery make life easier for anybody???
 My next car wont be a Ford thats for sure.