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Need read better....

damnit you bet me to it! :lol: :lol:

WTF is CD smoking again when making that comment about the Camaro's Interior?

And to boot Ford was tracking the wrong car! :lol:

New and improved poll added to it

Where did you get your numbers from? I got mine from the 2010 Taurus Website

They would get a 2.0L or 2.5L I4 EB as the replacement for the 3.5L V6

Doubtful...the Fiesta is just coming with one engine and the Focus comes out after the Explorer

I'm going with the 2010/11 Unibody Explorer where the Ecoboost I4 is unveiled in. Other candidates included the Refreshed 2011 Edge and MKX Anyone else want to bet?

No the problem with finding the true costs of Ecoboost engine is that its ONLY found on topend models of what its being installed in. Seriously, the Taurus Limited Starts at 31K and the SHO starts at 36K...Ford doesn't have the build and price out for the 10 Taurus yet, but I don't think the Limited is going to be lacking any of the options outside of 20in High performance tires and the Ecoboost engine the SHO comes with. I think that the cost per MPG improved vs V6 will be seen till the Ecoboost I4 engines come along, since the current V6 EB is more or less an Luxury option replacing a V8 engine in these said cars and well yea it gets decent MPG its not the huge improvement that you'll see if u had a EB I4 replacing a V6 in a product, like a 30 MPG Explorer with a 2.5L Ecoboost.

From what I'm seeing, they are bellyaching that the Retirement accounts of Teachers and Cops where screwed over because they where invested in Chrysler stock and due to the way the BK is going, the bondholders are getting stiffed where as the UAW is not. The author seems to forget the fact that all investments have inherent risk with them and what is happening to Chrysler and mostly likely GM also is part of that risk.

Well maybe it does feel smaller inside due them cutting the roof down 2 inches or so...but I also know it seems like the current Taurus is a touch narrow in cabin...parents have a Sable and it seemed to be a bit tight when my dad and I sit in the front together, but a coworker has a 300 and we have plenty of room.

Lets not talk about the other problems it still hasn't divested itself of that will be still heaped upon it...

Its not like Toyota is doing much better then anyone else at the moment, if anything they are doing just as bad if not worse then most car manufactures. Their unbridled approach to unseat GM as the worlds largest automaker will put it in the same position that GM is/was in.. Maybe being number 1 in the world in Autosales isn't all what its cracked up to be...

Not sure if I should laugh or cry at his comments about the Taurus, Fiesta and Fusion

I don't think the current Super Duty is based on the Tonka concept...more on this guy which is a more recent concept

http://www.leftlanenews.com/california-alr...eyond-2016.html How can one State (well technically 13 total) force the rest of the country to follow its "standards"? Maybe CARB will have be shut down to close the multi-billon dollar deficit that California has. I thought the current regs just released earlier this week was a compromise with CARB?

http://www.leftlanenews.com/ford-f-250-super-duty-2011.html is it me or did they fix the headlights too look less hideous looking on it?

I know in New Jersey its pretty well everywhere....if you want it...not sure why oil heat is still popular when you can get NG in the same area for the most part...

Great thing to have if you go off the road...

I bet Ford never figured they'd be in this position about 5 years ago when it was going through its dark ages...

You really dont need a car either do you? You could take a bus or train to work too...Its better to have the option for the engine then not to offer it Since when is someones Op-ed piece supposed to be factual? In all seriousness, if you really do hate Ford as much as you make it out to be on here, why even work for them? Helps to be postive ya know....Hell I don't even work for them directly and I want to see them succede.

I have a hard time believing that a Diesel engine would cost the same as an Ecoboost engine. From Ford's press releases it only adds something like $700 to the overall cost of the engine. Its MUCH harder and expensive to design an engine to survive a 1:20 compression ratio (Diesel) vs a 13:1 (or whatever the Ecoboost is rated at) gas engine

It could happen, we could all die tomorrow at the same time. How much more does Diesel have to drop to make it effective along with the additional cost of the engine and whatever its going to take make it pass a smog test? With the US standards being higher then Europe and Japan and nearly everyone dropping light diesel engines for 1/2 ton trucks and cars in North America....it tells me that even if Diesel was cheaper then regular unleaded, it would have to be MUCH cheaper, which would never happen because it would be taxed to death then

Well isn't gonna do any good unless someone comes out with a transmission to take that torque