Be honest, your mom’s a babe isn’t she?

I have been trying to get her to find the picture of it for years, but in the 70's my mom drove a CJ-5 Golden Eagle:

I meant a minivan. Like an Odyssey or what ever Nissan’s monstrosity is called. Those are huge now.

Nooooo, tons of people drive mini and regular vans as daily drivers, and drive pickup trucks as their daily as well.

I knew I should have been a lawyer...

What if it’s just one person in the truck or van? Selfish?

...or maybe it’s the fact that we have wide open roads here in the states and don’t have the same need for small vehicles like they do in Europe where they have tight, tiny streets and little parking.

How much does an SUV block that a van wouldn’t?

Occam’s Razor tells us time and time again that overarching government cover-up and/or conspiracy is usually the answer.

I assume that was the 3.0? Man, you must have done quite a bit to that engine to get it anywhere near any year STI or FoST. And you mean the early 5.0's, and not the latest 5.0 Mustangs, right?

Which of your early 90's Dodge appliances was this?

https://jalopnik.com/these-are-all-lame-i-knew-a-guy-in-highschool-who-swap-1699707328

What car? My 300ZX sits just under 4k at 80 in fifth and it makes me wish I had a 6th as well. Actually sometimes after driving my Audi with a 6 speed I accidentally try to go into 6th on the Z and get a pleasant grinding sound, lol.

My mom was looking at the Caliber in 2006, we just sat in it before deciding to go across the street to Mazda, where everything felt like a luxury car in comparison, even the comparably priced 3s. She ended up in a base, manual 6, and the interior still holds up.

I have brought great shame upon my family name.

Yeah but did you get the deets on this sweet 04-05 Mercury Sable?

I think the issue is that their car line is the part of their business that was losing money, so that’s what brought their overall profit margin down. Why keep producing them when they aren’t making money?

If Fords says they are, I have no reason to doubt it. If they were actually making money on them, then I don’t see why they’d be killing them off.

I’m with you, I don’t think this is the best choice. Hard to tell, though.

They were losing money on all three of those models. Now I’m not saying this is necessarily the best decision, but you can’t just chalk this up to corporate greed. They were falling behind in the market, and even though people seem to see profit margin as this evil thing that only greedy corporate assholes seek — that…