It’s cheap, sits up high, has a fair amount of “leather” inside, and has a upmarket badge. It can be parked anywhere, and has AWD available for the increasingly warm and snowless winters in the northern parts of the US.

Translation: Poor People Shouldn’t Have, or Aspire To Have, Nice Things.

It’s like the 90s again. Sell SUVs; chase what’s hot; forget about the long term. When the market changes, oh well, just flop. :-P

IMO they should keep one or two sedans in their line up. At the very least, it will retain expertise in that design area in case (or when) the market changes again.

As I told Mike on Twitter, the article absolutely does not omit the Escape Hybrid. It’s also not my job to advertise for Ford. If someone is shopping for a mid-sized sedan, why should they be forced into a CUV? Ford is trying to make customers fit its cars, rather than make cars fit its customers.

Ford sold 3.2…

My guess is that a ton of this has to do with the light truck exemption in the US. If light trucks had to adhere to the same fuel economy standards as actual cars I don’t think we would see this situation because auto manufacturers could not skirt fuel economy regulations by filling their rosters with said trucks.…

The “disagreement” is a direct product of WWII, with the postwar Americans being wealthy enough to enjoy their oversized cars along with Coca-Cola and rock’n’roll, while the Europeans and Japanese just wanted affordable transport for the common people.

Scion died because Toyota catered to the Americans’ desire for more space, more power, and more luxurious interior, which made the second-gen cars more expensive and grotesque.

Scion died because Toyota catered to the Americans’ desire for more space, more power, and more luxurious interior, which made the second-gen cars more expensive and grotesque.

Acknowledged Baidu but not Google ..hmmm

“Jim is taking an early retirement to spend more time with his family”

I would say America has predictably approached the COVID-19 pandemic the same way we’ve approached gun violence, skyrocketing health care costs, immigration, declining education, any pretty much every crisis this nation is facing: by letting a minority of incredibly stupid, ignorant, short-sighted, selfish amoral…

I think this may cause us to reassess how Americans define freedom. We tend to prize individualism to the extent that giving up some individual freedom for the common good is seen as a slippery slope toward tyranny, and I think this crisis is showing just how misguided that kind of thinking can be.

I was really hoping for a lot more camera in the tire footage, and a lot less Bad Fashion Dad yelling at me

Anyone that supports Donald Trump is not a patriotic American.

No, it’s making us furious that American Hitler, a monster who wipes his ass with the Constitution by playing the “law ‘n’ order” card by having federal goons act like nazi agents. As if we’re gonna put up with this Venezuelan shit.

Hey leave Rush out of this! They did great live shows and released some good albums. Its not like theyre some old bald jackass speaking into a gold microphone while claiming everything is a socialist hit job or anything. 

but enough about America.........