It’s because public transportation is a joke.

This is really hard to say.

Ok. I’ll be that guy.

I think the big point here that should be focused on is not that more highways = more traffic, but to look at the reasons why there’s more traffic and tackle them directly. One thing is that they can’t show that adding highways caused the traffic, or that traffic wouldn’t have gotten even worse without adding them.

I feel like you’re right. It will be a chopped up Bronco Sport. FWD standard, AWD optional. No manual option, likely. It will appeal to none of the truck buyers, crossover buyers, or enthusiasts, and Ford will wonder why it didn’t sell.

But will it have crank winders, no touchscreen, an AM/FM/HAM radio, 2-door, long bed, and a manual transmission? If not HARD PASS.

“but it’s not up to some random chump to shit on people’s efforts before the market has had its say”

Am I the only one that likes the little guy? A bit of retro, but still seems new. Yes it has shades of land rover, but is that so bad? If it’s decently powered and nice to drive I’d consider one for my wife’s next vehicle.

Funny how when the price of oil goes up, the price at the pump goes up the same day (normally within hours), but when the price goes down, we get excuses like “we have to use the expensive stuff in the tanks first before we can lower the prices” followed by weeks of gouging because the gas stations think we don’t know…

So a Land Rover Discovery??? I thought Ford and Land Rover parted ways?

That’s called “trickle down” economics, it just trickles down a little bit. Like, Drip, drip, drip...

I mean, cool. Gas has gone down $0.04 in the last month here... Looks like refineries are making out on this though... Cheap feed material and same price out the door.

erected on Texas’s Highway 69

If GM management could actually find anyone as sensible and knowledgeable as you in their product development ranks I’m sure they’d be fired within the week.

Won’t be long once you awaken the sleeping giants.

“So its looking more and more like this thing is going to be Ford’s Wrangler.”

“Toyota Crap?”

If Ford undercuts the (ludicrous) sticker prices on the current Jeep lineup, they’re going to have a huge winner here.