Announcing you’re planning for the long term?  In the US?  Some corporate raider will swoop in to take any capital saved for the transition when the stock price plummets because they didn’t meet some 1 month sales goal.

And they would build an identical factory producing an identical product that Ford had no control over at all.

Yeah, and it does that when you’re braking, you know, when you’re trying to slow down.

So basically the same reason all the other non-plug-in hybrids don’t have a plug.

While it was a hatchet job, because I think most case of unintended acceleration were because of mistaken pedals, I did do a little experiment on my Audis (I owned a bunch of the 4ks and a couple 5ks.) I pressed the brake pedal down, and the pressed the gas pedal all the way down. It was very difficult to keep the car…

Having owned both, and living in an area where quattro isn’t needed, I‘d say the Coupe GT was better in every area. It handles better, gets better fuel economy, accelerates faster, etc. The Coupe was light and fun the drive, while the Quattro versions seemed slower and more ponderous.

Yep.  I owed a non-quattro 5kcst.  The motor was great.  My transmission was actually fine.  It’s every other system on the car that breaks down (AC, PS, Cooling, etc.)  I have mine back in the 90s, and parts were getting difficult to find, and every system had a very expensive part that tended to fail.  To top it…

One of the best roast beef sandwiches I’ve ever had came from a Roy Rogers in a NJ rest area.  I’ve never been disappointed with a Roy Rogers meal, and if they’re in an area I’m going to, I’ll be stopping by.

You’re missing out.  NY other than NYC has a bunch of great scenery.  Same for NE north of Mass.

One of the best roast beef sandwiches I’ve ever had in my life came from a Roy Rogers at a rest stop in NJ.

Here’s a thought. Because by the time they admit they need a new lane, complete the environmental analysis and build the damn thing then needed to add 2-3 extra lanes to accommodate the increase in traffic.

Yeah, it was one trip I managed that. Flat land, low speed limit (65.)  My normal was in the 14-15 range on the highway going 75 or so.

I never had any problem running mine with regular gas, but I used premium when I was towing.  I also got as high as 16mpg on the highway, so that was a slight improvement over the 88 F250 I had that got between 10-12.

For truck things the 32V engine really isn’t that great. I had a Navigator with the 32V engine, and every time I used it anywhere near it’s rated towing capacity (8k lbs) the engine really struggled, running high in the RPM range. You need torque for towing, not high end hp. I sold it and got a Hemi Ram, rated for…

Neighbor and I was both driving our trucks down our street in opposite directions.  Car parked on both sides of the street, I was over as far as I could be, neighbor wasn’t.  We smacked side view mirrors.  Now I have a mark on my mirror, but it folded in like it should.  Neighbor wasn’t as lucky, his mirror doesn’t…

Less than a month? How about less than a week. Yesterday was literally the first day they could have filed at all due to the holidays. I understand instant gratification, but this is clearly a issue that you have to let play out for a couple of weeks before you start wanting to sue people.  I’m sure this is the…

While they are the lowest, they aren’t really that far out of range with the rest. Out of a 1000 pt scale, there is only 71 pts of difference between bottom and top, and they are only 28 points below mean (that’s not much.) Of course, this is probably a biased poll anyway, since most people tend to give highest marks…

JIT is always great - until something happens that causes something to not be available in time.  Then the whole operation shuts down.

I was in Munising, MI last month!

Who watches the Weather Channel anymore? Anything there is available on the web and you can get to the actual information in much less time.