JETSOLVER

"Speaking of them"...

I saw Fiesta in the PR. Ikon is which platform again? Was sort of thinking electric/hybrid/Magna. Mind, I know I am out of the loop, and reading until my eyes hurt...

not mine, but wish I had the construction

Where is Th!nk anyway?

Hmm, not sure that this thread is where it started, ...

Those pics of the heads had me flashing back to when I laid eyes on the intake ports off a cousins 429 SCJ with a spun bearing when I was just a punk. Thanks, and good luck Jim!! I was a HUGE Glidden fan back when he owned NHRA racing with the Tbird. One of the prettiest race cars ever.

Out of the loop for a while, do they still build the er, GT500, on the niche line in Romeo, and if so, what will they do as the mod is phased out?

perhaps another sticker along the side of the dome, one in black, might make it a headturner and noteworthy to the average unwashed...? I understand they are big on stickers. And contrasting colours.

"Count us among the tragically hip" Wow, should do well in Canada then... I saw and sat months ago, and have such high hopes for this product that I pray I don't have to hide in shame. This launch has to go clean... I cannot think of a more critical to the future product for FoMoCo than this since the oval Taurus. Or one that can lead the blue oval into a bigger pit... Go Ford!!!

heh heh Shinoda wanted a pair of insets for cup holders on his last wing design, so maybe pop culture has a bigger influence than business types are allowed to 'fess up to... :beerchug: Project codes always killed me in the service. The more the name got me up and ready for the assignment, the less likely it was a career job. However, if the Scorpion is as big as reports have made it in terms of expense and critical future proofing to Fords bottom line, they might have named it after one of those reclaimed from the bottom of the ocean type scotch whiskeys...

I noted this in my local paper the Edmonton Journal, and as a hewer and drawer type taxpayer (eh?) it made me make a note to make a few E reaches and maybe even a phone call in the next dip of the market. That said, there are no realistic alternatives, and even as we cusp the idea of electrics powering the just over the horizon choice, one has to wonder if we can be saved yet again by the market. (in terms of seeking a short and hopefully longer term solution.) The word around the school is that perking these materials out of solution in terms of reclamation is not at all cheap, and in no way easy. on the subject of the next decade

Us tentative types have been very hesitant to declare the all clear for us to climb up out of the bunkers and start to tackle the clean up, but this is a pretty positive indicator. And without a major program like C4C. Now, if they could just create a product with so much demand that they have to relight St. Thomas or something, I would be over the moon. Is there any chance that the tie up with Magna and the electric X car might do that? Or has the buy at home thing killed any chance of the auto pact making $?

Lurking under the double green hype/oblate is a passion... SVT O.J. Coletti, the ghost of future past suggests we just drive for fun; I hold this to be true blue oval... sometimes, I just want to go for a drive, and don't really care if I get there...I might have to answer to the big guy why I left in the middle of a meeting... um, sir? touch the fiesta, and yes, yes...yes.... YES RS Focus. ends. please?

C'mon Rich, and I use that moniker we respect sir; a ride as a young turk. I completed a course in her majesty's service of welding. Full O conviction, and capability, then was presented with a flailing cat heat shield on a P.E.I. not quite LTD (those fairmont based ones). All I had to prove my convictions was a catalog stick welder and a covered coat hanger( cables didn't quite reach...) I glued that together, and all I had for compensation... Buddie buys a trashed first owner diamond star Daytona ( idea was to replace the plastic cladding, forget the sheetmetal, and no one would know). I suggest the wastegate is underserved. I also suggest a pair of visegrips applied with little knowledge to the wastegate vacuum line would improve the situation. Great pics, one very cooked turbo, with the best pic just outside the Alliston Honda plant, mere towtrucks from the back gate, and a visit to the MP shack, and all is forgiven. 'Cept for the original registration....

Front works in many iterations, that fat arse back end in the flesh... yea, um Ford, just this once, please cut a half coil out, we don't as a rule carry a months worth of groceries in the trunk, please, discount the entire "it looks a turk" high ride height. You (Ford after the fact parts sales) will not sell a tonne of lowering springs. Baby gots a bootie, and I wanted a lil less... its her choice, and if I had to choose... damn.

"Carb kits violate rule #1 /// No, wait, carb kits violate rule #2" :lol: Now imagine doing the drilling for the rebushing of the throttle shaft in a school where we were learning on front line fighters! IIRC, the seals were actually carbonized from the backfires, and one of the mixture screws was not even in the throttle body when I started(was sitting in the heat shield for the intake). The real comedy came when I was trying to explain all this to the fellow who was very Quebecois, and the technical stuff evaporated in the translation.

Can't say as I "owned" it, but my aunt was afraid to drive from East Vancouver to the airport in her 67 Beetle with a 75 engine (48 hp) to pick up my uncle from work, so I sort of came to lease it by default. (hey, I was 15, so...) After it finally died on quiet hot day in August, I discovered from the Hollander that the newer cars got a engine cover with a lot more vent holes... The worst I ever drove was a carbureted 82 Dodge Rampage with the (according to wiki) 96 horse 2.2. I ended up driving it because when I was in college with the Canadian Forces, and living on the ground floor, the clown who owned it would fire that eco disaster up and the fuel and oil vapour would blast in my ground level window at 6:45 in the morning. I took the keys one hungover Saturday and told him I would rebuild the carb and tune it, with my money, if he would promise never to park in front of my window. I got into a lot of trouble when the duty NCO smelled the serious carb cleaner I had doused that thing in, in my metal wastebin, from the hallway. I recall thinking that when I drove it into town to get parts, there was a better than even chance I would be walking back to the barracks.

I can't seem to find the Ford Media article from a few years back when every colour seemed to have been chosen by Martha Stewart for maximum consonant usage, but here are a few pressers that give a sense of the importance to somebody other than me of the shades and their names. http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=26693 http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=22572 http://www.conceptcar.co.uk/news/design/cardesignnews49.php http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2007-0...ar-colors_N.htm I much prefer the simpler names of the last decade (Mystic, Pacific Green, and Atlantic Blue for example), to the rather overdone names of my younger days like (Ford) Desert Fawn Metallic, and the most dubious of personal experience (Datsun) Cinnamon Firemist Metallic

"(even converted and shifted two steps sideways)" I should have been clearer. I understand it wouldn't be a straight conversion, and as I just got home from a 3 week business trip, I have an even better understanding. Hence the "two steps sideways". Either way, I still stand by my premise that this sucker is the post meltdown "The One". Rather have a GT though... :beerchug:

Hate to interrupt the whatever, but as someone who has been away for a long while, is the EB engine series signed off and about to appear shortly in everything, or is it still in final polishing? The reason I ask is that I sense a potential for this engine in its iterations to become the new version of the 5 ltr., showing up under every Ford hood and recreating the potential for a vast aftermarket and die hard owners (and fingers crossed, some more candy like the SHO!) Think back to the halcyon days when every young turk was trading hard earned burger money for an intake and a set of shorty's...

Well, I guess its time for Ford (as proxy for the other domestics) to put up or shut up as regards the ability to make a profit on toasters. I realize there will be a major content shift for our side of the puddle, but the theory advanced for years that the domestics have no market for upscale downmarket cars is about to be sorely and ultimately tested. £8,700 stretchs to £14,970 That is a hell of a stretch. Good luck FoMoCo, some of us are pulling for you, but even I would have a hard time justifying that top end price (even converted and shifted two steps sideways) for a rollerskate. I wonder if the greenwashed will put their ill gotten capitalistic gains on the hood...

'Eh?, Ready to take one for the team; taxes must pay for programs. Always question, and then look in the mirror. The America that I know is capable, open, honest, and occasionally forthright. With honesty, with respect, and with self interest in mind; get it right, not easy! Definitively, not easy, in that self assessment is a tough gig. Your allies wish you well, and your allies understand your introspection. We got there first. On our behalf.

That's my Ford. SVT, what can you tell them about me?

Noted, and disseminated.

Way up North, were the juice is cooked out, I had occasion to wander by the floor today, at a small, downtown legacy dealer. They had Fusion, a plethora of dusty Stangs, six Taurus, and four topped out F series in the room. Every single sales person that I had had contact with last year was gone, and the only person I recognized was the lady manning, (ladying?) the desk. Not the sales desk, the finance desk. The good news was the kid I talked to, as I wandered around with intent to leave, asked my name, and offered coffee. After he checked the 'puter, he was nice about it, and wondered if I knew who bought the roush. I spent almost a half hour in there, and three walk-ins were working two Taurus, and one Fusion, and I enjoyed the entire experience. Not sure if that counts as a green shoot, but at least I didn't want to exterminate it? But even in big oil home country, there were no takers for new trucks. One guy was looking used F, and he was jawing the sales guy down even before he sat in it...?