SoonerLS

Of my first 12 vehicles, only two had slushboxes. My last four have all had slushboxes, and it still aggravates me that I can’t get a manual transmission in a modern half-ton. At least my tractors still have gearboxes…

Bubba, you ain’t close to the middle of nowhere. That’s out in west Texas, somewhere between Seymour and Lubbock. My mom’s maternal relations were from Post, TX. I’m pretty sure the directions to get there are “go to the end of the world and hang a left.”

It was still $3.14/gal at the Sam’s on Mingo when I stopped to fill up on Friday evening after work.

I paid $2.97/gal for E10/87 while I was in Norman on Sunday. It was $3.14/gal at the Sam’s on Mingo in Tulsa.

They might not announce that it’s from Chy-na, but they should at least announce that the model is continuing.

I’m looking at the Murphy in Wagoner, OK, and they’re advertising $2.99/gal for E10/87.

The Sam’s on Mingo was back down to $3.07 for E10/87 when I filled up on Friday.

So it’s still an evolution of a sedan platform.

Is that second one the Apple edition?

It might be easier, but it might not be. My point was that when they tried to go from sedan to coupe, they decided that it compromised the coupe too much for the Mustang’s purposes, so they went a new direction. Going from a coupe to a sedan might also compromise the sedan, so it might be better (if not easier/cheaper) to go from CUV to sedan. I don’t recall the history of CD6, but isn’t it an evolution of CD4, which was originally a sedan platform?

That math doesn’t math. Is that $2.89 supposed to be $2.99? When I filled up at the east Tulsa Sam’s after work yesterday, E10/87 had jumped up to $2.31/gal. The QTs in the area (whose prices are apparently set by Snoop Dogg while he’s on Willie Nelson’s tour bus) were showing $2.45-$2.49, but I heard reports that one was up to $2.99.

Same here. My family bought a bunch of cars from the local dealership, going back to the ‘80s. Heck, the only place I ever bought new vehicles was from them. Then they changed ownership a few years ago, and they got rid of everybody that made the dealership what it was. The way the new service people treated my late mother after Dad passed made me swear them off forever, when they had been the only Ford dealership in the metro Oklahoma City area where I hadn’t shaken the dust off my sandals and left forever. I still get occasional text messages from them to my dad’s old phone number saying that they have a great trade-in offer on his ‘21 F-150. The funny part is that Mom sold the truck after Dad passed in late ‘21–to that very same dealership, no less…

Ford tried to do it with the ‘05(?) Mustang, using DEW98 as the starting point, but all they ended up keeping were the firewall and transmission tunnel/front floor pan.

I went to watch my nephew play in a soccer tournament in Norman on Saturday, and I paid $2.07/gal for E10/87 for the return trip. ETA: his team won their first two games, got skunked 6-1 in the third, then beat the team that skunked them in the finals to win their bracket.