Remind me again why Hults' place of residence isn't being bandied around like a legitimate piece of news in the way that Van Horn's was?

3V 5.4s out of the regular old F150s will reasonably easily do 1000 rwhp with forged bottom ends and enough boost; the architecture is more than there. Yes, they made lots of changes to make production viable power, but the 3v architecture really wasn't bad to begin with.

It's a stupid critique. Power is power, and the more easily, cheaply, and reliably it can be produced, the better. I have to imagine that maintaining a Ford GT is a much more reasonable proposition than any of its contemporaries.

a. She's a Pennsylvanian

But she spent the first half of her life in Pennsylvania...

The stoutness/reliability/ease of working on the motor.

Not a perfect system? It's a hilariously flawed system if it tanks an otherwise reliable vehicle. Bad data = bad results. If you can't properly approximate, then you don't.

I don't disagree, but Consumer Reports' language on the matter often emphasizes the difficulty of using the systems and not the freezing/crashing.

Ford and Lincoln are now 26th and 27th out of 28th in the new reliability rankings and it's due, CR says, largely to to infotainment (EcoBoost teething issues also hurts). Cadillac is also 25th and it's hard not to see the CUE infotainment system playing a role in that as well given the mag's prior contempt for that…

Haha, the internet's inability to translate tone strikes again.

Aston's operating history suggests that it's really not much of a business in the, uh, profit sense. If you've bough an Aston in the last 50 years, you've essentially been donating to charity.

That's not exactly what I saying, but more or less, yes. The car was only sold to well-established Aston customers (no first time Aston buyers), was only sold when paired with a full-on Aston (no Cygnets were sold by themselves), and there was a pretty specific group of loyal Aston customers who were targeted for…

I don't know about worst, but every flight I've taken out of O'Hare has been delayed in some form or fashion, and some anecdotal research from fellow passengers indicated that their experiences have been similar.

They're certainly not far apart (40 minutes or so), but for cultural context, no one in the area would call Ennis a suburb of Dallas. Not that it's a particularly important distinction in this matter.

Just as a note, calling Ennis a suburb of Dallas is a bit of a stretch, at least by Dallas' suburban standards.

When you sell 3000 cars in a really good year, selling a few hundred Cygnets does indeed do something for corporate MPG.

People who buy one are morons for doing their part to help ensure that they can buy Astons in the future? That's a stunning slice of logic.

FUCKING PREACH, VS!

Indeed there is, but high-quality, in focus, giant wallpaper sized images of solid gawk-material? It's rare to hit all of those things in one sitting.