Actually the Flex is about an inch shorter...for some reason my post got pulled...the Flex is 201.8 inches and the Taurus is 203 inches long. The Flex does have a longer wheel base.

The SHO feels docile without a tune. I’ve had a tune on mine since 7K miles and I had a fuel pump recall done (it actually failed before I got the notification..then again I just moved) and Ford reflashed it back to “normal” again and I was like WTF is going on?!?. The tune really wakes up the shifting in every day…

The SS is a friggen sales dud though...they are lucky to sell 100 or 250 of them a month. People aren’t exactly lining up to buy car that looks like it was styled from the 1990s. Car enthusiast magazines have lauded the car before it was sold here but no one bit on it.

There really isn’t any advantage over it in relation to the 2.7L Ecoboost. The 2.7 actually puts out more torque stock vs stock. The 3.0L used in Lincoln products beats it outright. 

They aren’t using the GenII (GT,Raptor, detuned in regular F-150 models)3.5L Ecoboost in a traverse applications

What other NA V8 makes 526 hp in 5.2L form or 435 in 5.0L form? The coyote is still a mod motor.

Or they bitch about it like the Mustang LOL I think there is a market for it. I’m not saying rape the first gen Bronco, but between it and the concept they did in 2004, there is lots of room to come out with something that looks modern and yet had a hint of first gen in it. Someone I know did a drawing of a modern…

I did some research before and the Everest is about 8inches longer than a 4 door Wrangler and about 4 inches longer then an Edge...and almost 10 inches shorter then my SHO...so if they can get it around 188 inches in overall length or so (which also happens to be the length of the new Mustang also)...I’ll be…

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The biggest problem with it is that it’s too friggen long...it’s longest Ford product outside of a F-series.

Not exactly, you actually get “punished” for trying to save money for the government. Say you have a budget of $100 a year, but only spend $80 of it because you didn’t need something that you normally need. Well, the government will only $80 the next fiscal year, even though your expenses are going to be actually…

The Flex has a three inch longer wheelbase then the Taurus and Explorer...thus all the room in the second row. but yet it’s overall length is shorter the a Taurus..which is my biggest complaint about my SHO

As much as I hate to say this, studies like this are more or less a way to keep funding coming into the Armed Forces by creating a threat that may or may not happen in the future. I don’t mind the money being spent to try and figure it out before it happens, but I’m not happy with people taking it and creating…

Stock price isn’t always a good indication of a company’s overall health. All it could mean is that it’s overvalued by investors.

Where are they selling batteries to other manufactures? Their Gigafactory is struggling to get online to make batteries for the Tesla 3 whenever that comes out. I don’t think when that…

Given what Tesla has been doing, them selling that many cars is going to be a major miracle. I see them folding up shop or getting taken over by someone else before that happens.

They can’t make $$$ on 75k+ sedan..how are they going to do it on a 35K one?

What it ultimately boils down to is that bigger the program is money wise, the bigger the stakes are for the individual. The Military leadership in Project Management is primary reason why this stuff happens, you get an LTC looking to punch his ticket to Full Bird Colonel and so on...The more impressive the project…

What it boils down to is that a Truck (and a lesser extent a CUVs) can do just about everything an average person wants to do with a vehicle. You may not need that pickup bed every day, but it sure is convenient when you need to get an oversized load like a new dishwasher or something you can’t wait for a delivery…

I’m wondering about their stats....they state Mercury has a 24x higher rate of fuel pump failures...but yet Mercury is only a sheetmetal change vs a Ford Product for the past 40+ years...but Ford didn’t come up with the same problem, even though they use the same exact fuel pump in them.

No Pictures, but I can tell the story...

It was January 1993, we had the day off from school because it was MLK day, so myself and two other friends decided we would go out shooting in the Jersey Pine Barrens near Fort Dix. My one buddy had an 1979 Jeep CJ-5 (I think) that we took out there.

The shooting part went off…

Since the Taurus SHO turned out to be kind of a non-starter, this could be just what the doctor ordered.