Correct. Why? Supposedly the dry clutch was worth an mpg or so. It also had wildly varying clutch disc friction and was the root cause of the issues. They knew almost 2 yrs before launch that they could not solve this with calibration, only band-aid it, but persisted on. They had time to fix it, and didn’t.

Ford could’ve spent 1/100th of this and brought the wet clutch version of the transmission here (or a conventional 6F35). But no, their executives were way too proud to admit a mistake and ended up with billions in warranty and customers who won’t buy a Ford again. Idiots. 

You will never convince them that their messiah had a hand in this. 

And if you saw the homes of a lot of them, you’d think that even more.

Care to explain how a inline 6 is taller than an inline 4 mounted transversely? Also, the CG will move rearwards since the transmission and most of the engine will be behind the front axle.

The 04-08 TL and TSX are GREAT cars.

I wonder what the Germans who were adults in the mid 1930s would think?

I think the answer is for news orgs to immediately and deliberately call out things that are not true, as not true. 

Except no one does it. If they would actually call them out live, and not pull their punches, the world would be a better place. 

I know where you are going with your extensive sarcasm, but we’ve seen over the past 4 years just how much these people exploit their airtime to make programs like 60 mins part of their disinformation campaign. FFS, Trump got billions of dollars worth of free time on every conceivable show in the 2016 election.

Completely agree. If the controlling interests of the media giants were really interested in the truth and stopping facists, they’d never air this crap. Because they only care about money, they will continue to. 

No, that’s not how it works, unfortunately. FAR too many people will still think Navarro was being attacked unfairly, viewing that same thing. The better answer is not airing these assclowns ever. 

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Oh yeah, 9/11 is now nothing compared to this in terms of effect on economy and deaths.

You mean 50% /s?

I hate the man, but I don’t want him to fail. Many more Americans will die because he’s so awful at his job (or any job).

In many ways, this is worse. A terrorist attack would probably kill less, and definitely wouldn’t bring the economy (for good reasons) to its knees. The unpreparedness of this administration makes it at least 2-3x worse than it ever had to be. 

It is for whichever Governor(s) kiss Trump’s ass the most.