► Month two with our Ford S-Max
► Heated front glass is a joy
► Could be the perfect frosty school run car
There can’t – courtesy of a heated windscreen – be many better machines for getting the school run rolling in a hurry on a frozen Mudfordshire morning than an S-Max.
Trouble is, the missus points out, that the alacrity with which the front and rear screens clear merely highlights the propensity of the side glazing to dither.
Lowering the windows fails to bring them into sufficient contact with the rubber seals to effect scrapage, so a good few minutes can elapse before they offer any greater transparency than the average shower curtain.
Logbook: Ford S-Max 2.0 TDCI Titanium
Price: £28,845
As tested: £36,270
Miles this month: 1011
Total miles: 1889
Our mpg: 37.3
Official mpg: 56.5
Fuel this month: £121.631
Extra costs: £0
Read more from the May 2016 issue of CAR magazine