I would love this. It was one of the first sad things I noticed. My dad's explorer has this feature and it's great. Anyone have any ideas on a workaround?

 

Closest I can find is if you hold the button on the shifter (automatic model) when you hit the start/stop button when parked the car will go to the accessory mode instead of turning all the way off.

You just need to remember to press the button twice before getting out of the car. Once to go to the next power level (Fan and windows can run) and then press again to turn it off completely.


I don't know how you would do this (or if you can) in a manual transmission.

I hope this helps.

 

Manual transmission does not have any shortcut . On the auto, as long as the button is pressed or you're not in park it will switch to accessory mode.

I've just gotten used to pressing the button twice quickly if I want to listen to the radio a bit when I park.

 

Seconded

I'm always always listening to something on my phone via bluetooth, so the "press the button twice quickly" thing doesn't work so well, since it then retrains bluetooth for ~10 seconds or whatever.

 

Ah, that would be a perfect workaround. Bummer. My buddy's Civic Hybrid has a similar system.

And Goddamn do I hate all the stupid i-Name names. You're not Apple, Mazda, and it's been annoying when Apple does it for 5 years now.