What do you mean maverick engine heads? I think you mean the mustang engine heads. The 2.5 in the maverick is basically the poster child for a bulletproof motor.
That's been a common thought among low-end Maverick buyers, unfortunately, the base XL's are way over-ordered, and certainly there are some features that just aren't possible to add-on after the fact.
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That’s the way this company operates. A fresh mind comes in up top and makes a bunch of changes then as soon as that group is gone it’s back to the status quo. The time between Mullaly leaving and now is a great example of this. It’s about a 10 year cycle.
I could never see that happening. Fiat and PSA fought tooth and nail to get back into the North American market. They got a huge discount ticket by getting a company that specializes in the exact product this market likes (Trucks, SUVs and CUVs) and they didn't even have to do much to develop them.
To get back on track, they need to get to more reasonable prices and products for cash strapped consumers. I could see them giving up on Chrysler right now, Dodge too if the new Charger isn't accepted in the market and fails like the Hornet. I also think that the entire American managerial staff and white collar employees being let go and the entire company being European run exclusively.
Haven't posted much lately, hopefully this post won't get me banned again- It's just my opinion and most of the folks here are pretty knowledgeable and have a right to their's too. I suspect that having to order instead of buy a vehicle off the lot for the last few years has made us better at speccing. Like many, I ordered my Transit Connect "A La Carte" by starting with an XL model and adding what I actually wanted instead of simply accepting an XLT or Titanium from dealer inventory. I saved hundreds if not thousands of dollars, found some less than hundred dollar options that added a lot of value, and avoided a few items in the XLT and Titanium trims that are for me liabilities rather than assets.
After ordering mine I noticed a clever dealer had ordered a near identical one for stock, talked to them and in similar manner they'd "deconstructed" the options and packages to pick the same useful combination. I've been seeing this a lot with XLs and XLTs specced up A La Carte with the best options of the more expensive trims. As for Ford pushing back by speccing vehicles the traditional way by trim levels and packages, probably not a conspiracy but simply going back to "the way we've always done it".
Let’s not forget Ford has been doing this for decades holding and inspecting launch vehicles before ok to buy. This just seems to be a much more thorough version and they’re not overlooking smaller problems and waiting for fixes to come later.
This morning's gas prices in Hamden, CT (New Haven)
$3.54 Regular (Cash) @ Gulf
$3.65 Regular (Cash) @ Citgo
I've seen several articles lately forecasting gas prices to drop by as much as 10% this summer, yet Citgo prices went up this morning and are now $ 0.15 higher than the Gulf station only a few hundred feet away.