It’s not a bad idea. The last thing a dying person needs is a used German car with a costly repair—as long as you find a lease deal that’s not out to screw you, that is.

No down payment is necessary. $350 per month lease with zero down is feasible for one of these. If she leases it under own credit then Ford will just take it back. They can’t go after her family if the credit is in just her name. No hassle of trying to sell it later either. 

The best option, if it’s financially feasible, is to get a two year lease on a brand new Mustang Convertible. I can guarantee that the payments will be about the same as buying a car for $25K plus (not to sound insensitive), when she’s gone, Ford can just take the car back. No hassle in trying to sell and you can do…

1st gear: Ford stock took a hit as a result this morning for what is basically a short term issue. In my view, this is a buy opportunity for Ford stock if you’re prepared to hold it for at least 1-2 years.

Yea you right, fuck the guy that had to be in school for ever, probably leaving with a ton of student debt, then was worked to the bone in residency who now works to save children’s lives. How dare he end up being successful. Surely an extra 30 grand is meaningless to him as he supports a newer technology as an early…

CVT’s with paddle shifters are among the dumbest things in cars today. If you want gears to shift, get an automatic. If you want to select gears, get a manual. If you want to spend your commute in a soul-crushingly boring “premium” small sedan, get a CVT.

Yes, if there were dashcam footage you can pretty sure bet this would have been one of those things that literally wasn’t there until it was.

“Look honey, here come the wheels of death.”

They’re in a crossover lane with Jersey barriers on both sides. There was literally nowhere to go. I drive in that crossover lane pretty much every weekend, and will quietly be freaked out for quite a while. 

My colleagues weighed several tire and wheel combinations used for heavy trucks and buses. They were weighing 150-170 kg. The hub and drum should weigh at least 40 kg. So that package should be totaling at least 350 kg (770 lb).

When you consider the Mach E seems to easily beat Ford’s stated range figures and Tesla’s rarely hit the stated range figures I think the range is a non factor in the comparison.

See the recent Edmunds test. Mach E is getting WAY beyond the EPA range in the real world.

I don’t understand why the Ford performance models get less range while Tesla performance models get more range. If you stack in more batteries, with some clever software and hardware you should be able to get both. Ford is still learning on this one.

Tesla performance models get less range than the long range ones, and so do Ford’s. A Model Y Performance gets 303 miles from an 82kWh battery pack, while the Long Range gets 326 miles from the same battery. That’s mostly due to the larger wheels absolutely killing range at highway speeds (the Performance Y actually…

Manufacturers can use one of two EPA test procedures in reporting range. Tesla uses the more optimistic one, Ford uses the more pessimistic one. Reviewers are finding it pretty easy to beat the Mach-E’s EPA range in the real world but, as always, your mileage may vary.

Tesla’s build quality is notoriously spotty but I haven’t heard the same about Ford. They’re not stellar but they’ve got things figured out. I think in terms of things for the eye to land on, where Tesla stans are quick to blink lest they see something that detracts from their opinion of Tesla, Ford shoppers won’t…

I already have one. For real... but with “juice brakes” . Something to consider is that you likely don’t have anything in your garage that will help you perform any maintenance on a Medium duty 12,500 truck. Something as simple as changing a tire or an oil change (5 gal) is a lot more difficult with the size of tools…

Of course you can’t make a perfect system. And accounting for every conceivable way a human may exploit something is impossible (and one of the reasons true autonomous driving is probably a fantasy). But there’s an extremely easy solution here that for whatever reason Tesla seems completely loathe to do: have a camera…

The test isn’t about safety or whatever.

“If I wanted to do this in my Hyunda, I could”