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I paid $3.19/gal for E10/87 at the Sam’s on Mingo in Tulsa earlier this evening.

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.

They could always go with Caballo, which is Spanish for horse. Then again, maybe I just like the name so I can buy a red one and call it the Strawberry Roan.

Last night I paid $1.95/gal for E10/87 at the Walmarts in Sapulpa.

Eh, that’s a myth, a fairy story told to young executives to keep them in line. “Screw this up and we’ll have you working on the TC Wagon.”

My recollection of the story was that they were using parts that were basically only there for show, not parts that would be used in an actual wagon version of the TC, and they were “recycled” back to Europe to be used again, but it’s entirely possible that I’m misremembering that.

A few years ago, I used my truck to jumpstart a tractor, and I discovered that the clamp on my jumper cables was just long enough to reach from the battery’s positive terminal to its negative terminal. That, funnily enough, will pop the high-current fuse built into the positive battery lead, which takes out the EPAS. Let me tell you what—that truck is fairly nimble with EPAS working, but it’s a bitch and a half to drive with it offline. It was damn near undriveable; I had to borrow my mom’s car to drive to the nearest Ford store for a replacement fuse, but at least with the mechanical connection I could’ve steered it if I’d needed to drive it somewhere.

…but not what was delivered to customers. They took the windows and seats out and shipped them back to Europe for use on the next batch. That all happened before delivery. That said, I also disagree with @Sherminator98. I mean, I’m sure they’d at least sell in the dozens.

Ford has had throttle by wire in production for over 20 years. I don’t know if they had it earlier, but throttle by wire was one of the big changes for the ‘03 Lincoln LS. It was a topic of discussion, if not a bone of contention, back in the day.

Sort of name-related, but I was watching a David Freiburger video yesterday, and he showed a ‘61 Comet. Not a Mercury Comet, just a Comet. It was developed for Edsel right before McNamara shuttered the brand, and it was too late to kill it, so they turned it into its own marque for a couple of years. He even showed the manufacturer’s plate on the door showing the Comet marque and pointed out that the C on the badge was just the Edsel “E” without the center bar.

I would also note that the types of aircraft with fly-by-wire systems have mandatory scheduled maintenance and safety inspections done by trained personnel. Most automobiles are driven by people who can barely be bothered to keep gas in the tank… I would say, though, that having been running EPAS for the last 15 years probably gives Ford a leg up on most when it comes to this idea.