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Yes, forgot the MKX. It's not ugly but it is too close to the Edge in side profile and doesn't stand out enough.

Newest member of the Ranger Mafia........

The only people who rant about "tarted up Fords" are the media and negatards. People actually looking to purchase a car will look at all vehicles that meet their criteria. The problem with current Lincolns is they're not very attractive outside of the MKZ and they're not heavily discounted. The MKC should do well as will the new vehicles as long as they provide the style and flair and service that luxury buyers expect.

I meant big mistakes and I don't consider Navistar to have been a bad technical decision, just a poor execution and poor vendor choice. And they corrected it with the in-house 6.7L. You don't stay #1 for decades by making big missteps with a product.

Ditto.

So one mistake in 50+ years?

So wouldn't it also be reasonable to hold off on any drastic actions to see if the plateau stops and temps start rising again? How do you explain the plateau from the 50s to the 80s?

We know it's 700 lbs lighter and has a 2.7L EB engine. Weight and fuel economy are the only advantages that Chevy has over Ford right now and that will fix both of them. The point is Chevy went to lighter steel several years ago giving them an advantage in weight and fuel economy. Instead of doing that Ford went Aluminum and leap-frogged Chevy, so this time next year the players will be reversed with Ford being lighter and getting better fuel economy.

If you bother to look at features, performance and price it should be obvious that Ford Titaniums are competitive with Buick and Lincolns are better with more performance and more features and more luxury. Cadillac has better pure performance and better styling at the moment but that will be changing. And saying that Lincoln isn't better than Cadillac has nothing to do with Titaniums being better than Buicks which is true even if you don't want to admit it.

When has Ford made a mistake with the F series?

That article could have been written by anyone with common sense. Which, for Edmunds, is actually a step up.

Pins are not vehicle specific.

Because they're still trying to sell the 2014s.

I've heard the platform is capable but the current factory is not (e.g. the end of the line dyno is FWD only).

Shocking......

Sometimes it's way cheaper to lose customers. The resources that Ford saved by cancelling the Ranger at least partially financed the 2015 F150. Which is better - 60K new F150 sales per year or 60K Ranger sales?

Agreed, but the issue is when a boy and girl act exactly the same and the boy is commended or at the very least ignored while the girl is chastised. They should be the same. Otherwise we're teaching girls not to be assertive and to be quiet and that does not help them if they're trying to succeed in business or other endeavors later in life. The whole point is to teach girls that they can be assertive and exhibit leadership qualities without being chastised for it. That's all, and nobody should have a problem with that. And we're not talking about adults here - once you're an adult you're on your own.

As much as that would make logical sense, it simply doesn't work that way with little girls (or even big girls in some cases). You can't just tell them to have a thick skin and get over it. Leave this one to the husbands and fathers with daughters - I don't think you really understand this one.

I didn't mean name/value literally - to me xml is just a more sophisticated version.

It's a daughter thing. Don't discourage young girls from being assertive and exhibiting the same leadership qualities that we encourage in boys by calling them Bossy or Bitchy. Young girls can be very sensitive to these things. If you had daughters you'd probably be a lot more sympathetic.

Not as delusional as you are. Has nothing to do with wheelbase - it has to do with styling, performance and features and the Ford Titaniums are just as good as the Buicks in that regard - sometimes better.

Hard to beat plain ascii text name/value pairs for portability/readability.

So let's say there are 60K buyers who want a slightly smaller F150. Let's say half of them were planning to buy a F150 anyway so the net new sales is now 30K (and that's being generous if you're discounting a big mpg advantage). Ford has to either add the Ranger to an existing plant or open a new plant just for 30K units or import it from a country with no chicken tax AND go through all of the US certifications and testing, etc. It's just not worth it. Throw in a significant mpg advantage by using a very light duty unibody frame that can be shared with other vehicles like the Transit Connect and it will not only sell more units it will be cheaper and easier to produce and it won't steal as many F150 sales giving it more net sales increase and it *might* make sense. For a company that doesn't have existing full-sized sales to consider and has different plant and platform availability it might very well make sense. Why GM chose to do it the way they did is a total mystery that defies logical business sense.

When I first entered the workforce back in the mid 80s we had a government requirement to keep trouble ticket data forever. It was subsequently changed to 7 years. The funny thing was the requirement was that the data be kept but there was no requirement that the data could be read, interpreted or printed. So we just shipped backup tapes to a vault somewhere and didn't worry about whether we had software that could read them years later. Gotta be careful how those regulations are worded.....

Good grief. All this angst because they used the word "ban" instead of just focusing on the message which nobody should have a problem with.