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If they were arguing gas mileage, which I'm sure they were, that's hilarious, because some models of the Super Duty get BETTER mileage than the Ridgeline.

I'm convinced the Goat failed (Don't know if GM would call it that) because of its price tag. You can have a V8 Mustang, with gotta-have-it styling, or you can have a GTO, with unobjectionable styling, for...6000 more dollars? And then have to put Premium gas in it? Lemme think...

That grille: 1) Would look more at home on a 2009 Pontiac Tempest. 2) Has absolutely no coherence with any other Lincoln design I can recall. 3) Isn't even consistent internally. You have a break-line in the middle of the grille, yet you go about a third of the way up to the top of the grille from there to find the bottom of the headlights, and neither of those lines is continued anywhere else on the car. Huh? 4) Is going to give me nightmares tonight. ANYTHING else they could have done with that grille would have looked better. The rest...Uhhh...Isn't bad.

When I think "Automakers," I think Daihatsu and Hino... :rolleyes: It'll happen soon enough...There's no need to pad the stats.

I understand supercapacitors are coming along (Not ready for prime time yet, but coming along). Then there are always gravity storage, flywheels, hydraulic storage, et al... Perhaps a suitably creative application could incorporate all of those concepts into a cohesive unit that would provide more power than they are perceived to alone.

You're right. Toyota's impact at this plant is overblown. But nickel isn't the nasty part of battery manufacture and disposal.

The state of patent law is such that, when you discover that something you have developed, even if you developed it completely alone and with no outside input, resembles something that someone else has patented, it is often cheaper to license their patent (Be it through an exchange of licenses, a lump-sum payment, or royalties) than to pay the lawyers to battle it out. As viciously as the two companies fought over T-150 and LS-8, I don't see that particular battle being to either company's advantage.

That's the beauty of dual-fuel. It doesn't require a network. Just sporadic stations. When you can fuel on your preferred fuel, you do. When you can't, you burn gas. Simple. Get enough dual-fuel vehicles on the road, and the network will follow.

Three letters...HLA.

I'll bet you're right...

Sounds as though Bill's forecast was [gasp] conservative. Just a few years early.

I remember a Ford recall involving some 12-year-old vehicles. My car was covered. It was also an ignition switch.

Both.

Yes. Only 60% of Panthers are yellow.

It might make up for the vehicles sold at a loss if Ford was the entity making the money...They're not.