With your mentality, I’m glad you’re not running Ford. If you were you’d have rested on your laurels in the 70's and thought ‘nuff done’ no one needs more than 3 gears or 2 speed wipers etc etc.

Not sure about the look intimidating part. I would think they need some sort of show of strength really. Where I live many cops have to roll around in one of these with a little baton for self defense. I’m not sure how much this combination puts off a determined criminal in the midst of a crime spree.

Sounds like the kinda of crap base spec all Jalop contributors wish was sold in the USA! Irish here so I know what a base spec Merc is like and I can confirm it’s rubbish even compared to an equivalent model in the UK.

Norway can afford to do this because it’s EXTREMELY wealthy which is ironically due to their investments in deep sea oil drilling etc.

I see it a lot especially at the DIY store. A Couple of weeks ago I parked far away from the main entrance for an easy spot to load up after. I’m walking to the front door and there’s a guy in the top disabled spot loading up his gear into the bed. A fully able guy lifting heavy lumber into the back without a spot of…

I’d LOVE to see that. I’ve never in my life actually seen in that. In some locations where I’ve complained to police they actually told me they couldn’t do anything about it. Glad to hear its taken seriously where you live.

I was obviously referring to lazy fully able bodied people parking there wrongly and preventing actually disabled people from parking there.

Meanwhile lazy people park in disabled parking spots all over the country on a daily basis and no one bats an eye.

2020 F150 specs:
1.0 3 cyl Ecoboost 6 turbo hybrid
Carbon fiber cabin structure
XLT - $60k minimum
Ford finance to offer 10 yr loans!

The next Explorer will be RWD so the potential for a Bronco based on that platform is far better than it being based on the current gen Explorer I would think.

Does he like it? Does it get the better mileage he expected? Any problems hes had with it? I’m genuinely curious.

That’s awesome man. Love it.

Hey we actually agree on something. I completely agree that there was and is very little debate. There should be real proper debate by capable people on both sides in an independent forum (not hosted by the media) but that didn’t and doesn’t happen.

Haha way to go assuming things there mate. You’ve proved my point. It’s not touchiness to point out your reference to racism. Your response to basically discard me into a bucket because I even dared reference YOUR comment is complete proof. You disagree with me so you’re .......! This is the epitome of lazy thinking.…

So because there are potential difficulties ahead, better not to make tough but right decisions? Seriously? We all make life decisions that are good in the long run but often have a phase of difficulty initially. You know this.

If you live in the USA (I won’t assume you are) would you be happy to give up the ability to mostly make your own laws and have the EU rule over you just so you could have VW Polo GTi’s and more Amazon goodies?

I live in Ireland. We have an extremely low corporate tax hence the reason Facebook, Apple, Intel, Microsoft etc all have European hubs here. If the EU gets its way, we’ll have to give up the ability to set our own corporate tax and tow the line and have a far higher corporate tax rate and risk losing those companies.

I’m in Ireland. I’ve grown up here. I’m fully aware of the impact of the EU. I also understand the original intent of the union and it wasn’t to rule how countries go about their business on a day to day basis. It’s original intent was an economic community hence the EEC name. It was never intended to be a governing…

Completely agree. Much better to pour money into vehicles that don’t sell well. That would fix all the problems. You should apply for the position of CEO at GM buddy boy.

Haha nailed it! If only we could have that in the living room!