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If you're going to read it that way, then reading your post to say that everybody wants them is equally valid, although common sense would tell you that neither of those interpretations are accurate.

I don't see anybody saying that the general public doesn't want them at all, either. There's lots of over-generalization on both sides of this argument, and not a lot of evidence to say anything other than some people want EVs and some don't.

That's such a small percentage of the population that it's hardly useful for extrapolating what the general public wants, especially when the poll provided in this thread shows that two thirds of respondents won't consider buying a BEV.

Who are they going to alienate? The "woke" aren't going to be offended by an ad that's uplifting downtrodden women, and the rest of us aren't going to be offended by some satirical words.

She sued over that. Despite the near certainty that she would lose in court, Mel Brooks told the lawyers to give her whatever she wanted.

It's not their property, they just hold a security interest in it. But I do agree that it's not big brother.

I think my favorite part was the "if it's not worth anything, it can drive itself to the junk yard" part. I can just imagine that discussion. "Yeah, you quit paying on it, and we didn't want that POS back, but we didn't want you to have it, either, so we had it drive itself off to the junk yard and into the crusher as a final FU."

XLs are running in price ranges that would've gotten you an XLT or Lariat, or maybe even an FX, when I bought mine. I think sticker on mine was around $29K (which was certainly not what I gave for it), but the closest I could currently configure an F-150 stickered for almost $40K--and I can't even get a direct analog to my STX (f'rinstance, it didn't give me an option for 18" wheels, and STX wasn't available as an option package, let alone the separate trim it used to be).

The F-250 Crew Cab 4x4 PSD long box XLT that we just bought to build a customer vehicle was $70K. I remember when $17K was big money for a Ford 4x4...heck, I remember when $25K was big money for any Ford...

I've seen the clip, but it's from slightly before my time. I knew several Vietnam veterans who were still mad about it and brought it up when he died.

IIRC, it would've been around the time of the Tet Offensive (the battle that broke the back of the Viet Cong as a fighting force), so early '68-ish.

You mean the Walter Cronkite who declared that we were losing a war in which we didn't lose a single battle? The Cronkite who declared that we lost a battle which we'd actually won so decisively that it broke the opposing force as a fighting force? That Walter Cronkite? Seems to me like not much at all has changed in the media.

My hometown still has some Vics, but they've also been phasing them out for PIUs.

FWIW, the Vic had something going for it that the TC did not--police departments around the country were ordering as many CVPIs as they could before production ended. That undoubtedly had something to do with their later end of production.

The PSD probably makes more heat, but its exhaust is in the valley of the V8, so it may not produce as much heat in the lower half of the engine compartment as the more conventionally-designed Godzilla. (I don’t know for a fact that the different heat loading is enough to make a difference, I’m just speculating.)

Jack’s company produced the show, but it was Robert Cinader who ran it and was the stickler for detail. Per Randolph Mantooth, Cinader required that the basis for every story come from a fire department log book; it didn’t have to come from an LA County log book, but it did have to come from a FD log book somewhere in the US.

It's available on YouTube:

The problem with this whole line of reasoning is that they launched the Maverick with the hybrid as the standard powertrain. That means they were expecting the hybrid to be a decent seller, if not the big seller in that model, in a product that they were expecting to sell well. The whole raison d'etre for the Maverick is to fill in the bottom end of Ford's lineup, so saddling its volume model with a powertrain that they don't want to sell just doesn't make any sense.

$58K for a $19K car is a decent payout, especially if Ford has to pay the attorney fees.

A Vignale trim might work in Europe, where you don’t have Lincoln and you do have Mercedes taxis, but I don’t see that working here. As much as we may have in common, Europeans and Americans have very different ideas about some things. About 20-25 years ago, Ford had a senior exec (his name escapes me at the moment) who decided Americans wanted European handling instead of American power, and that went over like a fart in church…

The Pinto may have been a PR disaster, but there are a bunch of street rods running around with Pinto front suspension assemblies under them. The one Pinto my dad had was one he bought from a junk yard as a donor for the '37 Ford pickup we were restoring.

That's 4-5% of unit sales, but what is the percentage of profits? If, f'rinstance, they're only 4-5% of unit sales, but they're accounting for 10-15% of profits, that seems like a pretty good trade.

Something I've noticed... We don't have Kroger grocery stores here, but we do have Kroger grocery delivery, and they seem to be exclusively using Transit-based box trucks. I'm presuming they're chassis cabs, what with the refrigeration and all, but I guess they could be cutaways.

It was a humorous reference to a typo in jpd's post--a 6F140 would be a FWD transaxle, rather than the 6R140 that they actually have.