OAC_Sparky

Yes, and some people have windmills too. Solar panels are great if you have the space. Unfortunately, about 70% of the country's population live in urban centres.

Exactly. All it is doing is relocating where the emmissions are made, especially when a lot of the electricity is still coal produced. And I've said it before and I'll say it again. Electric cars are not the magic bullet. Every time you see a gas tanker roll down the highway, it represents a fixed amount of energy. Every tanker we take off the road trading for plugin cars translates into that amount of energy needing to be produced at a power plant and sento over our electrical grid. Our grid can't handle the demand we already have. How will it keep up? All we're going to do is trade the oil barons for electricity barons. Because when gas prices go up we can choose to go out driving or not. But we depend on electricity to heat our food, power our TVs and computers, light our homes, run our furnaces and air conditioners. Don't say you haven't been warned.

Because, technically, your dealer is the one that is supposed to be serving you directly, not Ford. When you order an out of stock window from Home Depot, do you get calls from the window manufacturer? No Does the window company let you look into their inventory records to see where your windows are? No. Same thing. You have a question, go see Home Depot. THEY can tell you when it's expected in. Same thing. A dealer has all the tools to keep you up to date, all you have to do is ask. If he can't tell you, he's not doing his job. PS. Don't use FedEx, UPS or US Post as an example. They don't make crap, only ship it. They can only tell you where your package is after its landed on their lap, they can't tell you when the sender is going to make or sell what is being shipped.

I can't believe they waited until now. Doesn't GM announce their vehicles at least a decade in advance? Maybe they're trying to time it for the release of Cars 3 or Transformers 6. Will you need 3D glasses to drive it?

It's possible, but the system might need to be upgraded (wire gauge for the load) and transformers installed. Plus the downside is they wouldn't be able to shut the lights off at dawn like they do now. Their best bet would be to choose a section of the parking lot for "electric vehicles only" and run a dedicated feed for a charging center. it would be cheaper in the long run, Hell, with some planning Ford could make it coin-op and break even on it.

The colour you are thinking of on the Edge is the Bordeaux. Lava is even darker and is only found on the Harley Davidson F150 and the '12 Mustangs

Sorry, Just found this funny. Reminds me of a younger me before I moved past just sarcasm and took up sardonicism full time. ROFL

My advice to you would be to never listen to this person again.

Aww shucks lol

Personally, I have always stuck to what I was taught in school, 35 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-ce.2C_-se When you advise(verb) people, you are giving advice(noun). When you license(verb) someone, you are giving them a licence(noun). When you break the law or offending someone, you are causing offense(verb). When you are in court you charged with an offence. When you are playing football, you are on the offensive(adverb) side, even though you are on the Offence(noun). It's the difference between verb and noun. It may not be the common spelling now; call that the "dumbing down" of the language. Just like Americans write "checks" and Canadians write "cheques"

You missed RangerM's point. The last time that one vehicle has been made in both countries was the pre-1994 Focuses. The Fiesta and Fusion designs are a decade ahead of your Taurus, Mariner (Escape), and twenty years ahead of the Ranger. Assembly tolerances are designed into vehicles. 10 design years makes a big difference.

I think we had already figured THAT out without a comparison.

Yes, and the US should absorb the 30 million Canadians to dilute the concentration of knob-gobbling assholes in the US. No offense, asshole.

http://forums.themustangsource.com/f813/canadian-order-guide-little-different-489898/#post5985679

Taurus. You forgot '98 Taurus too.

Unfortunately, many (uninformed) people out there do.

If that was true, I don't owe anything on my home or my car note. But wait! I have a contract. Just like Ford does with its UAW members. Profit sharing is a contractual obligation. Not a gift. Obligation = owe.

Yes there is.

My father died of cancer a year and a half after retiring after working 32 years, retired at 61 died at 63. The chemicals and dirt in the air from 3 decades at a Ford engine plant probaby didn't help. My father in law retired from OAC after 39 years in material handling at 59. Healthy as a horse, died of a viral infection that caused pericarditis; we buried him on his 60th birthday. Literally. It doesn't matter if you think you're healthy now or how old your parents got to be. You have no idea what those shithouse-cleaning chemicals have put into your body or what idiot runs a red light on your way to work and cuts your time short. A pension is a negotiated benefit that we get as part of my wage package. So I don't feel guilty taking it whenever I feel ready to go. Ford is still way ahead of the curve as far as the pensions go. Every year it seems the union likes to remind us of that guy that retired 40 years ago still collecting a pension, but they don't like to talk about the countless ones that die within months of retiring, the ones that retire because they are dying, or the ones that don't make it to retirement. So feel free to work as long as you want. It'll make me enjoy my retirement that much more knowing that you're paying for my winters in Mexico. :shades:

My selfish expectations? In case you missed it, I'm in trades. Your retirement doesn't affect me, so personally I don't really give a fuck. When I hit 30 years at 51 I'll have the option of taking a full pension and make near as much money as I do now over top of it working somewhere else if I choose to do so. Maybe if you spent more time learning a marketable skill in your spare time instead of being a self-made doomsday prophet you could have done the same.

Bingo.

Or he could die, his wife get a boob job and keep a young boy-toy and spend all that money on trips to the Bahamas. Because you can't take it with you ...

In Canada people only bought an LX over a GT to get away from the insurance hit, because once it was a GT the insurance skyrocketted But the insurance companies got wise anyways and just screwed ALL Mustang owners...

I would rather have the car produced in Canada or the US. But that said, I would rather have someone buy a Mexican non-union-built Fusion with a UAW/CAW built drivetrain than a Hyundai that was built 100% with union labour. 100% Korean union labour.

I have friends that work at a local rock station; so I try to support the medium. That said, once you've gotten used to satellite and the lack of commercials, going back is very hard. You never realize how much yakking goes on between songs until you've got used to none.