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Looks right to me. But you should compare your gasoline usage in a new hybrid fusion not your old car. So it's probably 1/4 to 1/2 gallon of fuel or so compared to the electricity cost. And if electricity usage goes up your rates could go up.

Frickin' ambulance chasers........

Is there a sensor on the top of the dash near the windshield? That's where it was on past vehicles. You could even cover it with a tinted cone to make it come on sooner.

What they're doing NOW isn't necessarily what they'll be doing in 5 years. And I assume you have not looked at the Lexus ES and RX sales volumes compared to the RWD models.

Adaptive LED headlights no doubt. Heated and cooled seats debuted in the LS and Aviator and Navigator way back in 2003 or sooner but they are now offered in several Ford models as well. Which I guess fits the "developed for Lincoln and passed down to Ford" definition. The D37 is used in the F150 and Mustang. Same for adaptive cruise (Fusion and Taurus I believe). Although they may have debuted in a Lincoln first. The timing was close. You said technology, not platforms. Those features require technical engineering. The ES now uses the Avalon platform. Try again.

If those are the rules and Ford followed the rules then STFU. If you don't like the rules get the rules changed but don't sue a company for following the rules.

Lincoln Ride Control? Push button shifter? Retractable sedan roof? THX audio? Which Ford did these come from?

Make sure that priority was changed from 99 to 10-19. 10-19 are for retail orders. 20-99 are for dealer orders. 10 is the best. 99 is the worst. It's probably just a placeholder and has been changed but make sure.

Every dollar that Ford spends on a vehicle or platform is a dollar that it can't spend on something else. And there are ALWAYS more projects on the list than Ford has resources (people, facilities and cash). If you add a new platform or vehicle then something else has to come off the list. Could be a new hybrid or a new truck or something else totally unrelated. But when you have X resources and they are 100% utilized you can't add something without dropping something else. That's just how businesses and budgets work. The opposition is about whether Lincoln should be spending that money and resources NOW. If they spend too much money on low volume low profit ventures instead of investing in higher volume higher profit vehicles then they won't be able to sustain themselves long term. And if they don't make a decent profit they won't be around. It's that simple. It's called survival.

That's what SHE said..........

You're missing the ability to drive 20 miles or so without using any gasoline. So your effective fuel economy will be much higher if you keep it charged. Whether it's worth it or not to you is up to you and how you drive. It would be difficult to recover the cost difference unless you do a lot of short trips.

It does both.

Are they really that bad?

I saw that. I figured I'd take a chance anyway.

I'll probably get the titanium hybrid Ruby Red with moonroof, driver assist, premium floor mats, navigation and illuminated sill plates. It says $34,340 for X plan (using the Titanium AWD pricing) (minus rebates if there are any).

Which options did you get? I think I'm about to pull the trigger on the same model and color.

Here is the deal with the stock orders. Before Ford gives the OK to buy order, every vehicle that gets built (all dealer stock) is held and repaired if necessary. A vehicle in this group could be delayed anywhere from one day to several weeks - no way to know for sure. If a vehicle in this group was one of the last ones built and has no problems then it will be shipped out immediately and *could* show up before a retail order. It's a gamble. If they build your car first and it gets held for repairs for a month you'll be really ticked off. Just ask those people that ordered Mustangs a couple years ago. What Ford should do is enable Retail Order Verification so that dealer allocation is not a holdup and they should start building those immediately after the OK to buy is given. However you'd still be affected by material holds. Again, pre-ordering just gets your name in queue sooner than others. A lot is dependent on the dealer and how they handle the order. If you're not prepared to wait at least 2 months AFTER OK to buy is given then you should wait and buy off the lot or wait and place your order later.

I'm making a new year's resolution to ignore Langston. Who's with me?

Not feeling it. Looks like a SL500 with flared nostrils.

A picture is worth a thousand posts....

There is no way for a retail (sold) order to be built before a dealer stock order from the same dealership under normal circumstances because retail orders always get a better priority (10-19) compared to stock orders (20-99). That assumes of course that the dealer put the order in correctly. There are at least 3 scenarios that could cause a delay: The dealer has other orders in queue with a lower (numerical) priority. Those get built first regardless. If your order is a 15 and 3 other orders are at priority 10 yours will get built 4th. If all are at the same priority then it should be first in first out. Unless..... There is a material hold or delay on your specific vehicle/options. In that case other non delayed orders are fulfilled first. There was a problem with your specific vehicle and it had to be held for repairs/rework. The dealer has no allocation available and Lincoln is not using retail order verification. If your dealer put the order in as a retail order with priority 10 and there are no material holds then your car should be among the first retail orders built for that dealership. If the dealer did not put it in as a proper retail order with priority 10 or the dealer has no allocation (and they're not using ROV) then your order will have to wait. That's how the system works.

On a car that's been in production for some time it only takes 6-8 weeks to order. These are all startup issues compounded by Fusion problems at the plant. It will take a few months to get everything back on schedule.

Obviously not.

Lincoln LS owners used to call them ITHs (Intrusive Trunk Hinges). There is a reason for using them as opposed to the struts and it has to do with design and engineering requirements. It's not random or just cost cutting.

I think the original topic is done anyway. Just let it die.