Sherminator98

I figured as much, reason I didn't post the article on it..

The SVT Focus was a fun car to drive, but mine was a total piece of shit...

I constantly see the Routan commericals on TV with Brook Shields pleading people not to get knocked up just to buy one. At least they got the demographic nailed down!

I was reading some article talking about the health of GM and Ford and one of the comments mentioned in it was scrapping a RWD platform for Lincoln

Strange, I've seen about a half dozen of them and I believe 2-3 are in the same town as me and I'm in Central Jersey...though I'll admit I've seen more Pilots it seems like

How about this? Since the Mondeo and Focus are coming in the next couple years, why not bring over something like the C-Max or S-Max as a Mercury?

What I find pretty interesting about the new Tarsus is that it seems like its basically going to be a cheaper version of the MKS...the Tophats are similar and now the interiors are somewhat similar also. But I do like what I've seen so far with the car...its a huge improvement over the current D3 cars. I've driven my parents Sable a couple times and it just feels like an old persons car...the new one doesn't

I have to disagree with that, The decisions made in the 1990s by Ford is why they are in the situation they are in now. Can you seriously think that going nearly 10 years without developing a new car platform in NA as smart? Just look how bad off Ford was at the turn of the century when it came to cars and they had to jump through their asses to get subpar products (which thankfully got better and better as they where released) out to market. Just look at what happened after the Focus...the 500 was barely an ok car, the Fusion was a good improvement over the 500, The Mustang was more or less a homerun for Ford, The Edge was at least a triple, The renamed 500 aka Taraus addressed the issues that the 500 had the best it could, The Flex looks like a great product with really shitty timing, the new Focus seems to be doing solid, even with its funky styling and the new CD3 Triplets will hopefully get the same refinement as the Flex, and the new Taraus looks like a real contenter when it launches. Then we'll have a New Mustang that will hopefully have the same interior materals as the Flex with further performance and ride improvements and we'll have a Fiesta and new Focus in the next two years also. It seems like Ford is finally catching up to where they need to be to compete.

Ford was at 1 dollar a share back in 1982

Not good for Ford or anyone else http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49863N20081009

The tail lights are kinda funky, but also how does this car fit into the upcoming C2 platform? I guess Mazada is going to be out of step with refreshes or is this the first C2 based car?

I was always under the assumption that it was torque not HP that destroyed Automatic transmissions, thus why the Ecoboost would be torque limited in 1-2 gear

interesting takes for compairing CUVs...the first 3 are roughly Edge sized products with useless 3rd row seating..

Both are tempary problems....Crude will go back up when the market recovers

I think your beening too optimistic here...the big issue is going to be the credit markets, where its going to get worse before it gets better, and I think people are seriously going to think twice about buying a SUV or Truck again, since they won't be able to get finacing on it. I think you won't see a full-turn around in the market till late next year or spring of 2010

Wow how the helll are you supposed to work on the Traverse's engine? you can barely see it with all that plastic crap on top of it!

Wow those seats look like they would get dirty easy! Nice looking interior though...

Crash standards, Telescoping steering columns, etc etc? Why not just go back to using Buttons to select what gear to use ? :P I've heard horror stories though about the buttons sticking back in the day :lol:

Most likely the LTZ or whatever they are going to call the top end model. I bet the cheaper ones look like typical plastic fanastic interior...

Nice to see you left out the fine print too:

Its in there prob just so they dont have to add it for other Diesel powered Fords

last time I checked, Ford wasn't using the Fiesta as a PR machine like the Camaro, people are tired of having the camaro concept thrown around with out being able to buy the car...Who cares if its a Niche car...thats just a fucking excuse your giving. The Concept Camaro came out in 2006 and STILL isn't on the road...it won't be till next year The Verve came out Fall of 2007 in Europe, went into Production Summer of 2008. Goes into production in NA in early 2010 and was shown in 2008 in North America, and still will beat the 3-4 years it took the camaro to come to market

It all depends on the needs and wants of the buyer... My sister has a 06 Explorer Limited and has 9 month old daughter and a 2 1/2 yr old son, and not once have I've heard complain about not having sliding doors, but I sure have hell heard her say...NO MINIVAN! Been trying to talk her into getting a Flex to replace the Explorer when the lease is up on it.

It would be downright stupid not to get the 3 door Fiesta, but I'll be willing to bet that we dont get it at first...

I'm leary of all the comments, talk is cheap, how many of these people are truly going to put their money where their mouth is... hell I'd like to see Ford do a super car again, but I sure as hell can't afford one!