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1 hour ago, AM222 said:
I"m sure Toyota is a business too. Having a full range of vehicles allows Toyota to be strong globally (the development cost of a model is spread across all units sold sround the world). Ford's streamlined lineup also means it has less vehicles it can market outside North America.
I've long said they already did the work for Mondeo and Zephyr for overseas....just import medium to high trim models only (no low trims) and keep prices up that way.
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19 hours ago, AM222 said:
I'm sure Toyota fans feel the same about Ford fans. Lol
Between the new 4Runner and the new Land Cruiser 250 Series (aka Prado in other markets), the new Land Cruiser is a better (cleaner) design than the overstyled new 4Runner.
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Toyota borrowed GM's T-square when designing the Land Cruiser.
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52 minutes ago, silvrsvt said:
The annoying thing I've been experiencing in my area is people who have zero patience when a light turn greens. I'll be at a light with 2-3 cars in front of me, The light changes green and I hear someone honking from behind me when the people haven't even gotten their foot off their brakes to start going in front of me. I'm blaming the people who come from NYC for that, but we've always had immigration from that area, but its something that just started happening after COVID started.
Lol, clearly you haven't been to South Florida.....folks here honk before the light turns green lol.
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Just now, Gurgeh said:
I agree, but I also get the caution on the current state of EVs due to the rapid development of the technology. ICE is a pretty mature technology. Five years from now drivers can expect somewhat better MPG and (maybe) performance from ICE vehicles, and certainly a lot more hybrids. But from EVs many anticipate a dramatic improvement in range and/or weight with the emergence of solid state batteries. Still, the smartphone syndrome is real. In one or two years there's always going to be a much better device available. Why (ever) buy now?
I understand too - but it has seemed like those sorts of upgrades can be swapped out "on the fly" after production has started, rather than continually pushing back new product.
As I pointed out above, it'd be a bit different story if ICE products weren't gutted for EVs, so now it's the worst of both worlds - EV product delays and limited new/updated ICE products until they can push both out.
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2 minutes ago, akirby said:
I agree with that. But I think we’re underestimating the impact of the changes from the skunkworks team. I think they are fundamentally changing the way Ford designs and builds EVs which will either give them a big cost advantage or at worst keep them on par with other industry leaders. You don’t need 100 people working for 2 years in secret just to redesign a couple of vehicles. It’s far more fundamental in my opinion especially considering the team members.I also think this EV delay would be more of a moot point (i.e. wait until they get them right outside of Mach E/Lightning that are already here) if they'd stick to consistent refreshes/redesigns of their entire product line. Instead, we continually have abnormally long product cycles - 4-5 years for refreshes, 7-8 years (or longer in Edge's case) for non F-series products, while the competition is on 3-6 year cycles for most products like clockwork.
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8 minutes ago, akirby said:
They're not in denial they just announced hybrids for every gasoline vehicle. They just overreacted to the EV sales boom and pending government regulations and tried to do too much too fast. T3 was the right move and timing. I think Mach-E and Lightning were the right moves at the time and they learned a lot. But the mess with Oakville and VW and Rivian was a cluster F of epic proportion.
And I don’t understand why you keep harping on design. They didn’t create a skunkworks team and delay projects to just work on design. It’s all about lowering the cost of EVs from battery type, source, design and size/range to vehicle design to electronics to manufacturing processes and suppliers. They obviously identified improvements for T3 in addition to new vehicles and that made the ones planned for Oakville obsolete.
I think his point is that there are always going to be improvements that they find....and if you keep waiting for things to be "perfect", you'll never get there, and have endless delays because they're always finding something better.
I think they should've kept the Rivian Lincoln product to gauge reaction and to give them an EV product until their in-house stuff was ready.
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15 hours ago, Andrew L said:
I saw that the other day in the Tampa area, the other thing I see a ton of here is people driving around with their lights off at night. They are new cars too so no excuse.
I see that all the time - the problem is, most if not all cars now have the gauges on day and night, and have running lights (some of which use the headlights as the running lights), so they drive along with the gauges on, and see light coming from the front of their car and figure their lights are on. Sometimes I flash my high beams at them, sometimes I leave it be.....half the time they don't know what I'm flashing them for anyway.
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4 hours ago, akirby said:
Driver education is a joke. We need driver training. People don’t even know how to make a proper 90 degree turn at intersections.
One local lady the other day actually said if you’re at an intersection and you have a green left turn arrow that does not mean you have the right of way. Umm that is EXACTLY what it means. No wonder we have so many crashes.
Y'all should see the drivers down here in South Florida - it's crazy. Morons everywhere.
U-turns on reds is a new thing I've seen a TON of within the last few years.....I can't understand why they think they can go on a red light just because they feel like it.
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I still think the GTD looks ridiculous and is still "just" a Mustang.
For the price, there are several other options I'd consider before it.
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3 hours ago, akirby said:
Toyota fans are gushing over this design. I don’t see it.
Yeah, seems like they threw styling elements in from a few different generations. Maybe my opinions will change seeing it in person, but overall its "eh" to me.
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I think it's a downgrade from the current one exterior wise. The interior looks good, though.
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3 hours ago, Andrew L said:
I would add 3rd row heated seats too. BMW has that in the X7 IIRC.
Yes, BMW does. The X7 also has power side shades in the 2nd row and a sunroof with power shade in the 3rd row. It also has 4 climate zones (2 in front, 2nd row, and 3rd row), which can each have their own fan speed/temperature.
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Ugly. It looks like they took something chiseled and pumped it up too much with a tire pump to where it looks bloated.
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2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E Lineup Gets New eMotor, More Range (fordauthority.com)
Perhaps the biggest change present in the 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E is the addition of a brand new eMotor, which was developed in-house by FoMoCo engineers and is present in all trim levels. The new eMotor weighs less than the outgoing unit and also helps deliver improved torque across the lineup. The 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E extended range battery now charges around 20 percent faster than previous models when using DC fast chargers – going from 10-80 percent in 36.2 minutes, wile the standard range battery can complete the same task in a quicker 32.3 minutes as well.
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2025 Buick Enclave revealed with new looks, technology - Autoblog
The rear looks like any generic crossover these days.
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48 minutes ago, silvrsvt said:
I'm guessing the "headlights" are the tall light bars on the side of the fascia? It looks weird.
Yes.
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13 minutes ago, DeluxeStang said:
Interesting decision to invest in a refresh, especially if we're still on to see a second gen mach-e in 2026. Unless they decide to push that back, which is a real possibility, doing a refresh this late in the game seems wasteful.
well, given it’s Ford, they’ll probably give a minor refresh and leave it on the market for 6 more years, sales will dry up and Ford will sit there wondering why a 10+ year old product isn’t selling lol-
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Styling wise, from the rear, it looks like a warmed over version of the current model out since 2010...
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57 minutes ago, joseodiaga4 said:
maybe the headlights a bit?
On the other hand, Why there isn't a Lincoln version?
Borg reported that they were going to do a Lincoln version, but it was canned.
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5 hours ago, Andrew L said:
Any reason as to why the Navigator had such a drop this past month? Are there production issues? Grand Wagoneer has passed it though that may have happened earlier not sure but either way Escalade is still on top and Grand Wagoneer is now 2nd place.
Production looks consistent for the last few months, though inventory is lower than the rest of the Lincoln models.
Maybe it's just getting long in the tooth for buyers?
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23 hours ago, Andrew L said:
My G/Fs father got one last year he was waiting forever for it was on preorder for a long time. He paid I want to say close to 72k for it, it's loaded to the gills. Bright blue, blue leather, 4 door, removable top, big chunky tires. He's trying to sell it now. He's a Ford guy through and through but he said he misses having a sporty sedan or coupe, he also said he really didn't think it through since they have an Explorer already they have no need for 2 SUVs. He has had multiple offers from dealers but all low balling him pretty hard. He has it listed I think on Autotrader now for about 52k and no bites only low balls. He said if he doesn't sell it soon he will just keep it. He doesn't hate it at all he just misses having something sporty.
I get it. I went from a Flex+Mustang to Bronco - I really had fun with my Mustang, but wanted more practicality back. Sometimes I wish I still had my Mustang, but it wasn't paid off and didn't make sense to have 2 payments.
If I had a crystal ball, I'd have ordered a second one and sold it when prices were crazy, and then kept mine.
20 hours ago, akirby said:
They may have good volume but profit margins are probably lower than they want. Some of that is due to the competition, some due to higher costs. But they’re not just killing vehicles - they’re diverting those resources to new vehicles that either promise higher margins or are strategically more important to the company.E.g. if they had kept Focus they would have had to build a new factory and hire dozens if not hundreds more people and there is no way Focus would generate enough profit to cover that added cost. So they replaced it with Bronco and Ranger.
Hindsight is 20/20, but the should've built that plant that Fields started.
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I'd guess the stampings are probably worn out (11 years old now) and they don't want to pay for new ones.
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2 hours ago, Chrisgb said:
I suppose APA is useful if you typically find yourself having to parallel park a couple-few times a week. On the other hand, you probably are pretty good at it if that's the case.
I read somewhere, probably on BOF, that Ford Connect relays the frequency and in some cases duration that an option is used. They found through this data mining that few people were using the Homelink garage door feature, continuing to use the clip-on box that came with the garage door opener. They concluded that money could be saved by deleting the feature on some models, or moving it up into a premium package.
I'll stand by my opinion that removing features, especially while simultaneously raising prices, isn't a good look.
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Is this based on the current Transit, or is it a re-body of the older model (I know they tend to keep older models around and refresh them too as cheaper alternatives)?
FORD MUSTANG V8 WILL PAY DIVIDENDS NOW THAT RIVALS ARE GONE
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I usually can tell when someone has their brights on, but there are definitely times where I'm not sure and hesitate to flash.
Oh yes. In Miami, leaving space between you and the car in front of you is only room for someone to scoot in between.
Sadly, you get forced to drive that way or you'll continually get cut off.....and the auto cruise control systems are too "dumb" to realize you could coast to the preset speed rather than slam on the brakes.