Actually the Five Hundred and Freestyle where based on the Volvo S80/XC90 platform. When they came to the market (with a thud because of then new Chrysler 300) Ford marketed the Five Hundred as a Sedan that was a Crossover/SUV with command seating and AWD.
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The problem with nearly everything on this list is that its "Cheap"...auto makers don't want to make cheap cars anymore because they can't make money on them.
Then also figure in people want a well equipped car and the price balloons up. The avg cost of a new car is $34K...guess lots of people are buying $50-60K…
I don't see any "real" advantages of the Colorado over a full sized pickup...its 7/8 the size and barely gets 1/8 better MPGs. The only real reason small pickups sold good back in the 1990's was that they where cheap and practical, but lacked any real refinement.
I have BLIS on my 2013 SHO and no mini-spotter mirrors. I nearly hit someone the other day in my blind spot because the sun was washing out the indicator light on the mirror.
Exactly and no dealing with DOS box or whatever to make it run decently. Can't wait to play it at 3440x1440 :) I got the collectors edition...on pre-order since May 2014 ;)
Outside of sharing the same displacement as the Mazda engines, they aren't even the same block!
Ford actually secretly made aluminum beds for the F-150 for years before they went to complete aluminum body on the 2015 F-150. They sold them to companies (without their knowledge) and followed them to see if there was any complaints about the beds holding up.
The Ecoboost has a super flat torque curve starting at 2500 rpms or so
The EPA has controlled testing environments...where in the real world there are so many different variables that an apple to apple comparison is next to impossible.
The Ecodiesel only has 700lbs over the 2.7L Ecoboost, meanwhile the 3.5 Ecoboost has a rating of 12,200-12K depending if it has 4x4 or not....so where is this hauling advantage?
How about a real world test of all season tires on AWD and RWD? No shit that winter tires will perform better in the snow, but they'll more or less suck in everything else.
Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz, and BMW are doing their best to copy the Japanese highly popular car based uni-body SUV's and hybrid vehicles.
The biggest problem you state are the Germans...yes they had advanced designed equipment, but they couldn't produce them since they where so complex in large numbers. Instead of producing designs that where "good enough" they kept "reaching for the stars" instead hoping some sort of technological breakthrough would…
Wait till next year, there is a website (can't find ATM) that shows you the break down of fleet/retail car registrations for the year. Its something like Fleet info.com or something like that.
The problem is that most people bought the Ranger because it was CHEAP! The market moved away from it over the past 15 years or so. Ford used to sell 300K of them and at the end of the Ranger's run in 2012 or so, they where lucky to sell 50K or so of them. People have moved on to smaller CUV's or small cars if they…
I know Ford designs their engines to last 150k before a major end item fails on them. That doesn't mean that they automatically blow up then or have issues before that, but it is a good rule of thumb to start looking after you reach that. I've come to find out old cars are like old people...you fix one thing and…
Hahha this is just as bad as Lincoln's MK naming scheme LOL
Never was a fan of the New Edge Mustang Styling...the carry over roofline from the 1994-1998 models killed it for me, and IMO anything with New Edge styling from Ford hasn't aged well either.
Caddy's biggest problem is they are far too focused on creating "insert" name brand fighter vehicles, instead of trying to develop their own sense of what should be a luxury car should be. People who want an BMW, M-B, Audi are going to buy them because the cache they think they have and not even think twice about…