Oh... couldn’t watch the video since I’m at work, so I was just going off of that picture. It’s possible that both vehicles were taken to the same impound lot though, especially if there’s one tow company contracted to do most of the accident recovery work in that area.

To me that’s really the difference between ignorance and simply not knowing. Ignorant and stubborn go hand in hand in my experience...

Lots of things added up I think...

Proper penetration is important!

Everyone’s rightfully jumping on the woefully inadequate “cage” and all of its problems, but I guarantee he put the same level of attention towards everything else on the car. Alignment? Spring rates? Weight distribution?

In the lead pic it kind of looks like a wrecked Solstice in the background. I wonder if that was the Pontiac that he hit?

This bugged me, too. I wish more people understood that nobody is born knowing everything. It’s okay to not know things as long as you’re willing to learn.

I read this on a computer made by somebody making far less than that...

I’m with you on the red interiors. Very, very few cars look good with them and I don’t know if I could live with that every day. Plus I suspect it’s likely to fade out a lot quicker than any other color. I’d say white interiors are terrible, too since they get dirty so quickly.

Reverse: A $12 flight in 1961 would be worth about $100 today. Given that airlines like Southwest and Jetblue and others frequently have $49-59 sales, I’d say we’re in far better shape today.

Yeah, F those Camaro and Firebird guys!

I’m with you there. I grew up in a conservative household and listened to Limbaugh/Hannity/etc. for a while and I also live in a historically liberal area. Each side has good ideas, and each side has crappy ideas and problems.

False. (With all due respect.)

Yeah, Ford’s CPO warranty is pretty strong, too. I can’t speak to the ones from GM, FCA, etc. but a friend was shopping a CPO Fusion Energi a couple of months ago and the CPO coverage was impressive. I wouldn’t hesitate to buy a CPO Ford if I was in the market...

But when I WILL be in the market, there are things…

I wouldn’t describe the EcoSport, Escape, Edge, or Focus Active as “huge, ungainly, poor handling, bad braking, gas wasting monstrosities”. Even the Explorer handles well for its size, especially now that it’s Taurus-based and not a body on frame truck like it was 20 years ago.

And those 400,000 units, while not all profitable on their own, contribute towards the corporation’s fixed costs. If fixed costs don’t change, they’re now spread out over 400,000 fewer units annually which might even make their profit margin lower than it is now. I know they “have a plan” and their cost-cutting…

I would argue the 1970s was a time when selling good products wasn’t on the minds of car executives, either...

“The deep core of one party in particular takes great pains to look down its nose at unworthy people as proof of their own righteousness.”

This is a very good point, and I think it’s what Ford is betting on. The average vehicle age in the US is now about 12 years, the oldest it’s ever been. There’s nothing wrong with picking up a 3-4 year old CPO vehicle and if you plan on keeping it for a while, you’ll easily get 100-150k worth of mileage out of it if…

I always understood that the “chicken tax” only applied to commercial vehicles though, not passenger vehicles. For instance, when Ford used to build the Transit Connect in Turkey, they shipped them to the States as a passenger van then had them converted for commercial duty once they cleared the port.