I hate to break the news to the Gizmodo crew but maybe you should have sent Patrick and email at Jalopnik. variable ratio steering has been around for a least a decade. Common in BMWs, VWs, Lexi, etc. So this almost certainly isn’t something Ford went away and “developed” as much as their supplier got the price low…

Not really. The housing bubble proved problematic because values of homes became uncoupled from reality. It’s not like a Honda Accord is selling for $75k because credit terms can be extended for a longer period of time. The price is remaining the same, it’s just getting financed over a longer period of time. And there…