Yeah, but I don’t really think cribbing from the Mustang is a problem. Using “Mach” seems like a minor sin as far as that goes.

The solution is not dilution.

Excellent point, but, um, don’t planes go faster?

“I’m just glad I didn’t buy a minivan like some boring dad”

The branding on this is going to blow up in Ford’s face. I feel for the engineers that put a lot of work into this, because its probably going to be a very good car.

To be clear, we don’t know what it’ll be called. It’ll be Mustang-inspired, but might not actually carry the name.

“Mustang-inspired” involves grafting a Ford Edge front end onto an Escape, apparently.

Braking is deceleration, which is just a fancy term for acceleration that slows you down.  It does still have wheel brakes.

I mean, what’s to stop someone creating a vehicle that generates just enough lift to make the vehicle light enough so the suspension is no longer holding the vehicle off the ground, but pushing the tires onto the ground?

the ecosport is a hatchback masquerading as a crossover.

C’mon, dude. All ‘crossovers’ are just wagons masquerading as SUVs.

Isn’t an electric with a manual just an electric with a “choose your acceleration and deceleration” lever?

That picture makes me sad... Why would you do that to me?!

And if you preserve that “rare” mustang or corvette perfectly, in 25 years it might be worth... what you paid for it. Not adjusted for inflation.

I pulled up the cost to rent a car for six days on Expedia, and showed it to them - said “simple: you rent a car. The cost of renting it will cost less than what you’re paying in fuel alone in under six weeks of gasoline-car usage”. They had no valid rebuttal to that - it was an “aha!” moment.

That’s one of the things against EVs. I could use an EV, even a first gen Leaf with a half dead battery. I have 3 vehicles in my name. A minivan I use for trips and my wife uses for everything else, a small car my 18 year old uses for school and my car which I drive every day and put about 300 miles on every 2 weeks.

Yes, used car prices rose at the time. However, correlation does not prove causation. This was right after the financial crisis and a spike in gas prices, so people were looking to downsize and buy cheap, fuel efficient used cars. There was also a supply disruption as 13 million fewer new cars were sold in the years…

Just saying that most consumers don’t do long distance drives, but they think they might.

Totally agree. Consumers are weird. “I might need to road trip across America!” How can I do that with my EV? Says someone that won’t drive two stores down to save $10 because “it isn’t worth the drive and I hate driving.”

Come on dude. They’re keeping up with CURRENT CAFE standards while lobbying against advancing them. That’s literally what we’re talking about. That’s what this article is about.