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Good catch. One of my mental conundrums is I confuse the spelling of the Ford version with the astronomical one! When I read the word, "mature" I will sometimes mentally pronounce it as rhyming with "nature."

And Ranger came from Edsel. come to think of it, so did Citation. About a year ago Ford copyrighted the name "Skyline" for use in North America. I wonder if Ford still has the rights to Fairlane and Galaxy?

Escort?

i've had the transmission stay in neutral when putting it in drive with the parking brake on. I get a message in the display. I think there must be an interlock that senses if the brakes have been applied hard above a threshold and holds the trans in N until it checks everything out.

A relative bargain. SoFi Stadium, home of the LA Rams and Chargers, cost $5.5 billion. In a multi trillion dollar global economy, a billion ain't that much anymore. This old Boomer has had to adjust his mental cash register several times.

Imagine if Ford would have put half of the recall and warranty expense ($1b+) into better quality and evaluation of components from the start...

Ford Spin.

Looking at today's society which is more inclusive than when I was growing up, The Explorer's demographics would include many parents with kids involved in girl's hockey, wrestling, softball, etc that were pretty scarce in the 50s & 60's We have women choosing engineering, carpentry, machine shop, submarine, fighter aircraft careers that simply weren't available to women back in those days. Therefore I think it resonates well with the target audience. If the Mens' Edition pitch offends you, maybe you have a distorted self image; take your misogyny and find new roads. And maybe Ford is trying to inject a little humor into all the "delete options" available today ?

Elsewhere in BOF is a 2024 Mustang topic. Some, including myself, are of the opinion that the "sport' in sports cars is moving to the interior, with TFT displays that look like they belong in a minivan. We have 580 hp BEV trucks that can run a 1/4 mile in 12.7 seconds, and pick up that crate engine for the Mustang. Similar argument for many other BEVs. I don't think sports cars in their current form will be with us much longer, unless the direction goes from hubris to humble. MG, Triumph, Sunbeam, Fiat 124, all cars that had basic go kart driving dynamics and garden tractor motors. The fun came in trying to keep up with the Country Squire in the other lane while freezing or roasting to death. I think a $26,995 200hp BEV Mustang sized like the original with optional A/C and other power equipment might hit the spot. NASCAR lost me when they introduced stages. EV NASCAR could mandate snow tires on 12-spoke wheels with playing cards flapping the spokes for "rattle and hum." The tires would have to last the entire race, and the pit crew would frantically change out the cards at stage/charging breaks.

Electricity is a wonderful thing, but as enthusiastic as most folks were about it, "overnight success" took approximately 70 years. That is the time span from when the first operational generating station lit 82 homes in New York City in 1882, to 1952 when 98% of US households were electrified. I believe that the 21st Century will be remembered for getting carbon-based emissions reduced to nil, by incorporating a number of strategies. Perhaps we will perfect nuclear fusion by then. But I think the ICE age will still be with us well into the latter half of the century. This is an automotive forum so BEVs are a hot topic, but we will still have diesel planes, trains and ships. You can Google the data as to how much pollution is generated by cargo ships, airliners, or locomotives; sobering to staggering depending on your point of view. Getting private citizens "off the pump" is easier to do than it is for large energy intensive multinationals, but that's where a significant, if not majority of the smog is coming from. It doesn't matter to me what is or isn't causing climate change; climate gonna change regardless of what humans do. But I believe we should be trying harder to be better stewards of the finite resources we have left.

An affordable sporty car built using shared chassis and powertrains from the NA Falcon. The original concept.

More fraudulent than theft in the literal sense; you still have the vehicle, but you reneged on your promise to meet the agreed upon terms of the loan where the vehicle is collateral. If a person is having problems meeting debt payment regardless of how justifiable it my seem or actually be, most lenders incl Ford Motor Credit will work with borrowers to come to a satisfactory repayment plan, but it is up to the borrower to inform the lender as soon as problems arise. Unilaterally playing "musical bills" is not acceptable debt retirement. BTDT

I suppose now that VW Group has the IH trademarks, they could use the Travelall name for a BEV 3-row crossover.

I did a reverse inflation valuation on the 2024 Mustang GT base fastback which Ford's website shows as $41,495 USD plus D/D. In January, 1970 it would have MSRP'd at $5,242.88, or about a $1,000 more than the 1970 Dodge Challenger I bought after coming home from the 'Nam. But that car was a 318 V8/TorqueFlite ,Power Steering manual brakes (disc Fr/drum R) am/fm monaural, black vinyl roof over Plum Crazy and not much else. I don't remember what the actual msrp was but assuming $4,300 +D/D, a comparable '24 Mustang GT would be $34,032.57, or ~$7,462 more than it actually is. Probably doable as a stripped "Pony Edition": and a mild 250hp-tuned Coyote. Impressive, considering all the safety, EPA and convenience features that are standard or were't available 53 years ago. Marketable? Nah, but we can dream.

Remember Manual Transmission Special Value packages? Pony Editions? Ranger S? Will history repeat itself? If this keeps going, soon an Expedition will cost more than a Citation. Cesna's, not gm's.

You may have missed their commercial because this one doesn't have dogs in it. https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=subaru+solterra+commercial&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:4974a6f1,vid:a66oU3ZuhwQ

It was brought up on the ranger5G forum. You need to be running a version of the Android operating system newer than Nougat. Apple IOS is not affected. The update concerns streamlining finding chargers and hooking up and other "performance improvements and bug fixes." The app won't work until updated even if you don't need the new charger files.

As I recall the heated windshield was an option on the Crown Vic and either std or opt on Lincolns back in the mid-late 80s. My understanding was besides the low dealer spec, they were very expensive and rather scarce to replace.

Might have to add heated glass as well. I don't think radiated panels alone will keep windows clear of frost or fogging without air movement in cold weather. Moving air is more efficient at displacing frost than ambient radiated heat; that's why we have a Defrost setting on our vehicle's HVAC systems now. Direct heated glass on at least the windshield and front windows may shave that projected 5% efficiency gain even thinner.

Check your window lock button.

He's over at Borg Warner, now.

Now they need to write a bill creating a rebate program to convert all the fossil fuel pumps to charging stations. It does no good to have a BEV in every garage if no one has enough electrons to get back to their garage. Not. "The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples' money." -Margaret Thatcher I have no empirical data, but I think a sizable portion of the population is on board with BEVs, I personally will consider a non-ICE for one of my next vehicles. I put my share of pollutants in the air as an OTR semi driver; I burned an estimated 530,000 gallons of diesel over my 25-year career. However I don't think we as a society should go rushing headlong into totally electrifying our transportation. I am unclear how, or if the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) funds will go to private enterprise. I read the announcement below and did word searches for private, enterprise, company, business, personal, and commercial, and got no hits. Is the plan to be similar to how tollways license commercial fuel vendors to operate filling stations at service plazas, or will the charging stations be owned and operated by local, state, or federal agencies? I don't think we as a society should go rushing headlong into totally electrifying our transportation with batteries that contain crucial elements obtained from countries that we have strained relationships with. https://highways.dot.gov/newsroom/biden-harris-administration-announces-approval-first-35-state-plans-build-out-ev-charging We began Oil Age because it was a more practical energy source for early 20th century technology transportation. The population understood that, and we had ample supply of crude oil for the consumption of the time. But as far as I can tell, there was no national effort to fund oil exploration or set up refineries and gas stations, and it was a few decades later that government got involved with road construction and maintenance. Now are we trading one finite resource, crude oil, for another, lithium? Are there safeguards to ensure procurement and distribution of it? We have issues with some of the countries that have the biggest reserves and battery technology. And I want to hear more about how the billions for NEVI will be allocated. I lean more toward fuel cell energy. We have the resources domestically for H2 production and fuel cell manufacturing, but I wouldn't want my H2 to come from a government plant or filling station.

https://fordauthority.com/2023/02/ford-f-150-lightning-production-paused-over-battery-issue/

Agreed, but the endgame is to reduce carbon output. If the synfuel or hydrogen is produced with renewable energy sources, it is still a win. Might need more solar panels or wind farms to produce the equivalent btu's, but there would be net zero or even zero carbon from processing to end user.

I wonder if the Ironically-named Barra inline 6's tooling (formerly used used in Australian Falcon sedans and utes) was mothballed somewhere? The last versions included a 436hp gasoline turbo and a 266hp LPG (Autogas) both displacing 3.9liters and rather compact for an inline 6.