Hemmings Motor News called the period 1972-1995, "The Malaise Era." They've also said that the 6th generation (1972-76) Thunderbirds are showing more interest among collectors. 😳 This is a 1973 'Bird with the optional 460 cu in V8 tuned to a neck-snapping 219 hp:      

Yep, set your charge target in the app.  It's better for the battery for certain chemistries (I can't keep track of what's what).  Also, as the charge reaches 80%, the charge rate slows down to control heat and battery damage.  The Mach-E with the "other" battery chemistry will remind you to charge to 100% weekly if you don't do it.   I do that on my iPhone too using the recommended target of 80%.  

Agreed. $2800 on the F-150 is seriously absurd. I see what they've been doing with having that go up. Some years, they're using that as a "look, we didn't raise the base price of the truck", since the "base price", again, doesn't include D&D. Semantics, but it's a thing. Going from 2026 to 2027, base prices on a lot of F-150 body codes actually went DOWN, but packages are de-contented, so once you do an apples to apples build, well, we'll see.   I had this exact discussion yesterday with someone. Putting Ranchero on this would have been the Mustang Mach-E again. The hardcore Ranchero fans and anti-EV crowd would rally around "that's not a Ranchero", "two doors too many to be a Ranchero", "they could have called it literally anything else and it would have been better".

Also, I don’t know if anybody posted it yet but ford authority is saying that Ford told its dealers there will be at least four other UEV 

The beauty of LFP is it fills up and discharges like gas. You do not have to worry about %’s like other shit, you can approach your “tank” the same way you do your current one. That is a large reason I’ve been so positive about it (and so negative that GM doesn’t like LFP).    if you mean the Tuscon and Santa Cruz’s headlight LEDs, I see what you mean but the issues with those designs is a lot more  the very blobby form that the headlights did nothing to fix. The fathom seems to be more sharp, and ironically, other Hyundai and Kia designs are likewise extremely sharp aside from the unique form of the Ioniq sedan (the 6?).    I am beginning to think that Ford is really looking at the Koreans as something to emulate. I think this is actually a really good idea, as long as they don’t emulate the part where the folding seat kills your kid or the car can be hot wired with a USB stick.

It depends. Some Hyundai designs are stellar, others are hideous. You see a lot of newer palisades near me, and they look fantastic, the lights look awesome in person.    We'll have to see how well executed the design is. The response seems to go between meh and I love it from what we've heard. 

I assume you control that with the app?  Big difference in the battery technology though.

We charge to 85% in our Mach-E unless we are taking longer trips.  No need to go past 85% for 99% of our driving.

And that’s why it will break them. For a major rebrand like this to work it needs to be absolutely spectacular. So far they’ve fumbled every part of it 

I've always found that the search doesn't work that great here anyways.