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I rest my case. You keep saying over and over that hybrids aren’t that much better. Going from 21 city to 30 city and from 24 to 30 combined AND getting more power to boot is quite significant.

He is right most of the time. Just wait until he’s wrong and watch the toddler throw a hissy fit.

Exactly. Not sure why that’s so hard to u derstand.

I give up. Hybrids are terrible and plug in hybrids are more terrible. Go it. Move on.

Producing more hybrids, scaling back EVs to match demand that has somewhat plateaued and waiting for next gen cheaper batteries. If only somebody had suggested that 3 years ago……

Which is EXACTLY THE POINT. The assumptions that are made in the estimates don’t match reality. So the estimates are flawed. But for those who DO plug in the savings are huge.

Demand was never a question.

I think when this happens with Ford they just sell the vehicle to the dealer at a huge discount to get it off the books. Maybe @ice-capades can confirm.

The main reason is folks are buying them before they’re gone. This is the last month unless something changes.

Here you go….

That’s a 25% improvement. Times millions of vehicles sold per year. Yes, that’s quite significant.

RTFM! Just to clarify the part I was calling stupid was the ridiculing, not your personal preferences. I agree the V8 is better but that doesn’t mean the ecoboost is bad. And the point of comparing the cobra is that the base ecoboost is better than the top mustang V8 just a couple of decades ago. Sound isn’t everything and the original Mustang was far from a barn burner in 1964. So I respectfully disagree that the ecoboost is somehow a crime against history.

In this case Texasota is 100% correct. All those articles are saying is that based on a sample of real world fuel economy (sample being the key word) owners are using more gasoline than predicted which means they aren’t driving as much on electric power alone. However - that could also be because the owner drives 150 miles a day not just because they aren’t recharging. And his point is still true - even if you don’t plug in a PHEV it’s still as good as a hybrid and still far better than a non hybrid.

Money is almost always the answer.

Oh I agree the v8 is more desirable but it’s really stupid to ridicule a Mustang with 315 hp and until last year was offered with a manual and gets 24 mpg combined and 31 highway.

Thats pretty stupid considering it’s faster than a 98 V8 Cobra.

Doors have to be locked I think.

I think they just took all the vehicles currently registeredon and reported the percentage of each brand. So 14% of all vehicles were Fords.

Because people are stupid?

What is there to go after? It’s a completely free market with multiple carriers, multiple OSes and multiple phone mfrs. Apple was first to market with a capacitance touchscreen smart phone back in 2007 and they had an existing base of iPod users. So of course they dominated the market early on. People like Apple products because they just work and have a lot of cool features. Our family has been iPhone / iPad users since 2008-ish and I have 37 years in IT including Unix programming. I’ve never found something on our Apple devices that I wanted to change but couldn’t or something that I hated or couldn’t do. ICloud and Apple Pay work great. I can send text messages to the family and most friends from my iPad with only wifi. I’m sure Androids do certain things better or allow more customization but nothing I care about. And I’m certain that’s the case for most Apple users. If you do those things and prefer Android, more power to you. But I suspect a lot of Android Users just don’t like the control Apple has over apps and hardware. But to me that just allows them better quality control and until that causes me a problem directly I’ll stick with them.

They’re usually designed to not buffet at speed, sometimes by not opening all the way.

Thats what I was thinking. But I doubt this patent would ever be implemented. Another “just in case somebody else tries it” kind of patents.

I had to really restrain myself from making a Windoze joke……..

Bit those aren’t high voltage either.

It’s possible the Canadian hybrid includes more standard equipment. For US it’s only the engine.