The Town Car limos usually have a larger brake package. If I’m not mistaken, I think the rear brakes are the same as you’d find on a 3/4 or 1-ton Econoline van. 

The Lincoln funeral conversions are pretty cool, especially the flower cars. There aren’t many of them around... I’m partial to the 85-89 body style myself. 

Cool, I didn’t know that! Thanks for the info. 

It’s amazing to me how they were able to keep/adapt so many of the styling elements of this to the first-gen Intrepid/Concorde/Vision. Usually you can only spot similarities between concept and production vehicles if you squint but these appear virtually identical!

Intrepid was FWD, but the concept above claims to be RWD.

And along with that V6 there was a FWD transaxle as well. The V8 concept is rear wheel drive, so I think they could have made it work. Especially if they went with a dry sump system to keep the mass lower in the chassis.

That’s an interesting look at things. I know people have mentioned the effect that large-scale EV adoption would have on our electrical grid, but I never saw the math broken down on just how much power needs to be transmitted in such a short amount of time.

But it DID get us all talking about Burger King.

I hope Mahk makes an appearance in a fake “Real People” ad talking about how he just got laid off and can’t buy a new car. 

I share your frustration!  Slapping the -gate suffix onto any scandal is both lazy and incorrect.  Of the people that do that, I wonder how many actually think the Nixon scandal was about water? 

I thought the federal tax credit was $7,500? So that would bring the effective starting price of this down to around $28-29k, and probably around $35 for a fully-loaded one.

They said pricing wasn’t officially released by Kia yet; they estimate starting price to be around $36,000 before the federal tax credit. So even before the substantial difference in the tax credit (Kia = full $7,500; Tesla = $3,750 currently) there’s probably more than a 10% difference, especially on like trim levels.

I think it’s even more impressive that only one guy has been on the field for all six championships (and all 9 trips to the championship game). I think it says a LOT about the Patriots organization and Belichick’s coaching methods that they’ve been able to accomplish all of this with a rotating cast of characters,…

GMC is going to town talking about how innovative its Multi Pro tailgate is on the new Sierra, meanwhile AMC had a very similar setup on the Ambassador wagon almost 50 years ago (minus the extra fold-out seat/step part, since the Ambassador wasn’t unnecessarily tall...).

Pepsi and Coke want you to think they’re the only two options. I’ll always be on Team Moxie as long as there is one!

Sounds like you scored a great lease deal! Yours is spec’d out pretty much how I would have wanted one... but none of the dealers in my area were willing to budge an inch on price. Even though they still had ‘17 model year vehicles sitting around... 

If you’re inside it, you don’t care how goofy the outside looks... a few of my friends apply the same rule to dating. 

When you sit inside and have the seamless view from the windshield up to the roof (all one piece of glass) it seems pretty cool. Like riding in a spaceship!

I was disappointed when I drove an XE last year. It was “just okay” and didn’t give me the fizz like other cars like the A5 Sportback or the Giulia. And for the same price, the Jag just didn’t offer as much content.

“Murdered out” before “murdered out” was even a thing.