Sherminator98
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That is considered less ugly?! wow
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Seems like over the past 5 years or so we either get over/too busy styling or soap bar type styling on vehicles.
Car design have been suffering the past couple of years because of this.
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Kinda of a interesting chart...Ford does well
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-favorite-car-brands-of-the-ultra-rich/
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Just noticed on the spy shot that charge port is at the rear instead of the front.
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21 minutes ago, rmc523 said:
lol, you know it will.
"luckily" Ford IIRC has has some of the highest inventory out there, so this will help them move some of that.
But haven’t we’ve seen saying this for the past 20 years or so?
Im guessing the impact is lower than what we think it is. Im guessing that blowing out inventory and cutting back on production will help out Ford for the rest of this year.
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who would of thought that selling a 70K EV van would be problematic?!
with that said, anyone have any idea how Amazon is making out with their rivian vans? It seems like they had a ton in my area, then they disappeared for 6-8 months and I finally saw one a few weeks ago in my area.
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11 hours ago, Andrew L said:
Eldorado would sound good next to Escalade
I dunno, as I get older I really have no interest in reviving a 40-50 year old name for a luxury product that doesn’t resonate with my generation?-
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22 hours ago, Rick73 said:
Anyway, CT may be a prime example where swinging for the fences led to a strike out. Musk getting involved in politics may be another for Tesla. I know Musk is scheduled to leave Washington during second quarter, but damage already done to Tesla brand may not be reversible. It’s hard to ignore the possibility when some of the most loyal Tesla fans are now angry and vocal.
Also keep in mind some of those same people who are angry and vocal about Tesla are nothing more then people who want everything to be about them-they go from claiming to savings the environment or whatever to putting stickers on their cars saying they bought it be Elon went crazy in their eyes. All because of how they want to be perceived -
They did this years back with another credit card...my parents had the same thing happen.
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2 hours ago, DeluxeStang said:
But I'm not convinced that's true. I believe Fords skunkworks stuff will be more radical looking as implied by Farley, and I doubt Ford would make this truck a 2 door.
I'm thinking its the Slate Truck that was in the thread I posted
I don't think Ford would do a 2 door truck either
Just for compairson:
A Maverick on a Flatbed tow truck-the CE2 would be roughly the same size
This 2 door looks quite a bit shorter in OL vs the Maverick.
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2 hours ago, Rick73 said:
I agree with your previous comments that tariffs can be beneficial, but turning allies into enemies right off the bat seems shortsighted to me. You ask what is more anti American? Hopefully nothing, and tariffs are indeed worst case scenario, but what if it leads to global financial crisis, or domestic inflation that is out of control, or very worst case scenario of war? Of these the most likely pushback IMO is anti-American sentiments that affect our global businesses, credibility, and trust in our financial system. Personally don’t see need to start negotiations, especially with allies, using harsh and dangerous rhetoric that’s infuriating to the other side unless you have so much leverage over them that you’re guaranteed a victory. I’m just suggesting that we try winning tariff battles while keeping friends on our side.
So here is the problem with all of this-people are fed information from their media about the United States and Trump has been a lightning rod of negative attention for years now...good bad or indifferent. I know random people in the EU that complain about Trump (without being prompted by me) and its a regurgitation of what they've seen from the media, which has its own agenda...but that is whole another story.
People are equating Trump=USA. People also feel powerless because they think the USA has this outsized influence over their country (real or managed) and vent about it.
Much of what is being done is stereotypical Trump's Art of the Deal style, which is further infuriating people.
People are dumb/stupid/assholes and just react to what is feed/given to them, instead of trying to be analytical and actually thinking about what is going on. But no the media just sells everything as a kneejerk reaction.
Anyways-what has been going on is change of style in how the US policy is being done (once again good/bad/indifferent) and removal of the status que that some people feel like that the US might have been getting taken advantage of by certain individuals or even groups.How much is actually changes won't be known till long after Trump is out of office.
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43 minutes ago, rmc523 said:
All of them? lol
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11 hours ago, GearheadGrrrl said:
Yes, strategically it would be great to have more factories. But will they produce a profit to pay off the bonds and please the shareholders? Probably not- Ford and many other manufacturers already have adequate capacity and building more plants than needed just soaks up CapEx that's better spent on updating and improving the product.
Im not talking just autos, we need pretty much everything that the Chinese are building now.
One interesting thing I heard about bringing back manufacturing is normalizing relations with Cuba and using them as lower end assembly due to lower cost of living there, but seeing reports of how bad their power grid is, they would need a huge investment just to get that sorted.
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45 minutes ago, GearheadGrrrl said:
Had Bloomberg on all day and even the Trump supporting execs they interviewed thought Trump had gone too far. Was good to see Trump retreat a bit, but new plants are billion dollar 50 year investments that can't be made when Trump changes his mind on tariffs every day.
If you go by some of the info being given out by people on China, we need to start building these plants now, not years down the road.
The US military is already preparing for a conflict with China in 2027/28 with the invasion of Taiwan.
The Chinese are going to be in rough shape in the next 10 years-half their population is over the age 50 and whole host of other problems. The real question is how many people does the Chinese communist party want to give up to stay in power. -
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21 hours ago, Rick73 said:
Eventually they will “negotiate” by sitting at the table, but that doesn’t mean the US will get what we want or think is fair. Technically we could end up worse than before depending on the full scope of a deal. The fundamentals remain that China can manufacture cheaper than us regardless of tariffs. No one is forcing American consumers to buy dishwashers, refrigerators, TVs or a bunch of other stuff made in China. We do it freely, not under duress, because it’s cheaper than manufacturing it ourselves. Keeping in mind that one person’s negotiation is another person’s coercion, we should proceed with caution.Most appliances are still made in the USA. The shipping costs of moving a fridge from China for example, makes it hard to make a profit on it.
Smaller electronic devices are an issue.
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10 hours ago, akirby said:
Most buyers when they hear Maverick think of this:
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10 hours ago, rmc523 said:
I always thought it was dumb, but what do I know lol.They saw $$$$
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39 minutes ago, Rick73 said:
The Falcon Ranchero pickup from the 60s was car-based, so maybe a good fit for the Maverick?
people buying the Maverick have no fucking clue as to what that was or the original maverick was
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Regarding the Chinese tariffs-people are making it out like they are holding all the cards and won’t be affected by them-which is further from the truth.
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1 minute ago, rmc523 said:
Nothing else really makes sense, IMO. BEV demand just isn't there for what we know they have in the pipeline.
HEV/PHEV also doesn't make much sense, either......BEV production is seemingly so different than ICE production (with new construction methods, etc).....I just don't understand how it'd make sense to build this whole new factory that was intended for a new construction method, just to then put the "old" form of construction in, instead of utilizing existing underutilized plants for that purpose and just scale back or pause BOC altogether until demand warrants.
Well apparently Honda is using this approach in Ohio for its EVs, it’s going to be building EVs and ICE in the same plant.
When I visited the Tesla plant in Fremont years back, it wasn’t that much different than say the Edison plant that my dad worked in.
but then again I’m not an expert in setting up assembly lines either.
The bigger issue is this-if the current administration rolls back CAFE and emissions, how long does that actually stay in place and say things go completely badly for the current administration, it’s not going to be able to pivot back just to go back to the original plan.
Whatever happens it might be a short term thing with no real way of taking advantage of it.
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11 hours ago, twintornados said:
I pick mine up on Tuesday....
love the green color you got it in!
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Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims
in E.V. Central
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https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/04/tesla-makes-its-cars-lie-about-their-mileage-lawsuit-claims/?comments-page=1#comments