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Not putting Chinese in the title is just clickbait advertising. I’ve had to explain this is Chinese only multiple times in other Nautilus groups/forums.

just to underscore diminishing returns with increasing MPG, refer to the gallons per 10,000 miles. Once you get beyond 40 mpg, the gains become much less. Consider when CAFE began in the early 1970s, average fleet economy for cars was around 13 mpg but rose to 26 mpg less then ten years later. That change saved massive amounts of fuel. Today’s ICEs laugh at the old V8s but now electric vehicles are surpassing all of that.

Editing this now that I have time to type up a proper response. You’re right that it wasn’t $10k. I went back and pulled my paperwork. The difference is $7k. I’ll gladly wait to save that kind of money. If allocations slow things down, that’s a consequence I’m willing to face. I’d buy from Granger at the same price as my shithead local dealer for the simple pleasure of not dealing with their nonsense. While you’re right that high volume stores like Granger upset the allocation balance, they do something far more important. They redefine how dealers can operate. When you contact sales, you aren’t pounded for personal information and harassed by half a dozen people around the clock. You’re greeted with a no-bullshit approach. They open with ultra competitive pricing, give you straight answers, and move you through the order process as quickly as possible. With such a high closing rate and so little drama on the customer front, they don’t need to carry a large sales staff. Their entire front of house is the size of a used car lot office. In the time it takes a traditional high gross salesperson to jerk a customer around to squeeze that extra profit, they could have cut the crap and closed several happy customers instead. These people manage to make what should be a happy, exciting experience and turn it into pure misery. Fuck ‘em. Let stores like Granger steal their allocations with an incremental system. Let customers discover how painless the car buying process can be when they shop somewhere else. Let the deceitful high pressure salesmen starve. Force other dealers to get competitive or get replaced. We don’t need to tolerate the old school grinders anymore.

Fixed!! I thought it wasn’t necessary, I mean as far as we know the next gen is going to be China only

It’s about $7k in savings. I’m in the same boat. Not in a hurry so I’ll wait to save $7k.

Ford Connect and their competitions' counterparts keep track of accumulated milage and location were driven now. It may come to pass that in order to register a vehicle that does not use conventional fuels, e.g.FCEVs, BEVs, you would be required to sign a privacy waiver so that the States' and Federal highway admins can bill you; something like what IFTA does for commercial vehicle fuel tax.

At around 6 minutes in video you can see how tight a 6’-2” man fits in both headroom and legroom; though average people and children should be fine.

First car to use HID headlamps was E32 BMW 7-Series, but Lincoln Mark VIII was the first to use a proprietary DC ballast and bulb from Sylvania (now Ledvance). It was far inferior to AC systems such as D1 and D2, and Sylvania discontinued it after 1998. As a result, replacement hardware for the Mark VIII HID headlamps is almost impossible to get nowadays.

He's said this before, but he is implying here that much of the 40% loss of labor could be made up by vertical integration, bringing in house much of what is currently bought from suppliers (who then presumably would face major job cuts). But he is not saying that the new labor needed for bringing the work in house will necessarily be provided by those who will face redundancy in their current jobs. Farley's comments are from a conference he attended on Tuesday. There's a paywall, but you should be able to get past it by answering a single survey question. I tried to include pull quotes, but was successful in cutting and pasting only the headers. https://www.ft.com/content/8df00b42-4e3f-4a45-b665-2726720105e0 Ford chief warns electric vehicles require 40% less labour ‘Storm clouds’ face workers as US carmaker pursues aggressive sales goals

The elephant in the room no one talks about with the cost savings in electric operation is the lack of road/sales/use tax. Sure you might pay $50-$150 more in plate fees but for a lot of uses that will not come close to the tax dollars they paid under gasoline. States are quickly realizing this and are making proactive moves to change the way those fees are collected. In Michigan you'd pay an extra $50-$150 for a electric vehicle in plate fees. If you drove a 26mpg car 15000 miles a year you'd pay $260 a year in Fuel tax and another $86.50 in sales tax (at a $2.50 wholesale cost). Granted each state funds roads slightly differently but in the end there must be a way to makeup these fund and must be decided soon. This will amount to hundreds of millions in shortfall even when you hit a 5% or 10% market penetration rate.

My parents had one, LSC. Once you learn to drive in one of those with it's 204in. you can pretty much drive anything. Thing was pretty quick, and very comfy. Those doors were pretty hefty, I do I loved the dashboard on it. Wrapped into the doors. Ours was black with the grey interior. And my father telling me each headlight was over $1K because it was HID (I believe the first passenger car to have those).

Looks awesome under the lights too. ?

The system has worked well forever, until these crazy times. I think it will again.

There’s the entire PDI process. The factory has no interest in doing that. It’s a common misconception that we’re Ford’s customers. We’re not. We’re the end users. Ford’s customers are the dealers. The dealer buys the car from Ford and re-sells it to us. Corporate wants nothing to do with us. They provide dealers with a profit margin to take away the headache of interacting with you and me. The dealer is their buffer. Ever notice how you never get to interact with the warranty claim department directly? Order from the factory directly? Get technical support directly? All of those processes are pushed off onto the dealer. It would be wise to consider that eliminating the dealer for new car sales would inevitably result in everyone paying MSRP with nothing but an offshore call center or bewildered dealer to depend on. Costs go up, quality of service goes down.

Test Drives. Dealer prep. Installing accessories. Arranging financing including local institutions. Registration paperwork. Recalls. Warranty Repairs. Lease turn in. You're severely underestimating the number of people Ford would have to add to handle all those functions.

Here she is! 14 months and 6 days after I ordered it.

After 10 months of waiting for delivery and 400 miles of 'break in' it was time this last weekend to put the new F-350 to work having fun!

Sounds like this is good for everyone but the customer. I’ve bought a lot of vehicles, and not once has the dealer had the vehicle in the exact configuration I wanted in their dealer stock. They’ve always had to trade with another dealer to get it. If all the dealers in my region have the same stock vehicles, then it seems like I’m outta luck.