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It has a power slide function that exposes a cubby with an optional safe (looks like a Ford-branded ConsoleVault).

$2.55 for E10/87 yesterday evening in Tulsa.

From what I’m told, their contract with Amazon actually prioritizes Amazon deliveries over their own deliveries.

I don’t think he’s referring to the power generation capability of the Coyote, just the physical size of the package—the Coyote is a pretty big engine due to its DOHC nature.

Yeah, no. The Windsors were really good mills, but the Coyote is far and away better in every way.

The car magazines reported a lot of things that were never going to happen.

I’m not talking about drivability, I’m just thinking that an engine that’s designed to work higher in the revs is going to work more efficiently at a higher RPM than one that’s designed to earn its pay lower in the revs.

That’s largely because Ford’s “modular” referred to the engine assembly line being modular, not the engines themselves being modular. I suppose you could say that Ford did the modular thing when they married two Duratec 3.0 V6 blocks to make the V12 for Aston-Martin back in the day…

The DOHC 5.4 was a different animal than the Triton 5.4 in the trucks (and, apparently, Falcon). The DOHC 5.4s, whether they went into GTs or Falcons, were all hand-built at the Romeo engine plant, if memory serves.

The Coyote part doesn’t really make much sense to me, especially when they have the 6.8 available. The Coyote is a big package and it’s more complex than the baby Godzilla, plus the 6.8 is already in the Super Duties, so you wouldn’t be adding more logistical complexity. Also, the 5.0 doesn’t really come alive until it’s up in the revs, and you’d think you’d want something that’s happier at lower revs, like a big ol’ pushrod V8.

As I understand it, “modular” isn’t really about the engines themselves as much as it is the manufacturing process for the engines. Any engines made using Ford’s modular engine building system could be considered a modular engine. The 4.6 was just the first engine made using that process, so it and the 5.4 got the Mod Motor tag.

Too bad I needed to fill up today rather than then. It was back up to $2.56 this evening.

I was just told that the Sam’s where I bought gas at $2.58 on Monday is down to $2.50 today. It was $2.64 on 9/4, so that’s a $0.14 drop in a week. According to someone on a local forum, the place where I normally get gas in Norman is down to $2.48 and some stations in OKC are down to $2.35.

Tulsa’s gas prices used to be among the lowest; back in the ‘90s, they were a good $0.20 lower than in central Oklahoma, but these days they’re usually a good bit higher. I would say that it’s because they shut down the refineries in/near T-Town, but Ponca City has the biggest refinery in the state, and its gas prices are usually close to Tulsa’s.

Gas price at Sam’s was steady at $2.58/gal for E10 87 when I filled up last night.