That's exactly why I snatched up a '14 manual Fusion before they were all gone. It's no Miata, but it's damn fun for a mainstream family sedan. I don't really blame Ford for discontinuing it considering it sold in such low numbers, but at the same time Ford didn't exactly let the buying public know a manual was even…

They looked especially good in Skoda Green.

No doubt you can have a car with lots of highway-heavy miles, just as you can have a car that legitimately just needs a charge of the A/C. It just seems like every ad I see for a car with pretty high miles includes some suggestion that 90% of those miles were spent doing a cruise control-locked 60 on the interstate.

In other words: "air conditioning needs a charge" is the modern-day equivalent of "owned by a little old lady who only drove it to church on Sundays."

6-speed, diesel, in brown.

Actually, it was the Fusion, not Five Hundred, that originally had the Futura name.

Just look at the list of cars Giugario has designed and tell me he doesn't belong at this spot. His output and incredible breadth is scarcely believable.

Fred Deusenberg. The Model J perfectly captured the essence of 1920s American excess.

Yeah, that annoyed me too, as did failing to mention auto locking hubs were available on higher trims, critiquing the lack of interior niceties on a base XL, or making the stripes out to be some Ford conspiracy to make their trucks look more modern next to the Ram (those types of stripes really only appeared on the…

Seriously, I can't imagine any prospective GT buyer being all that concerned about fuel efficiency.

2.) All Wheel Drive Makes You Indestructible

So the solution is to run a cold engine (with thick oil) especially hard? To be clear, I'm not saying to fire the engine up when its 10 below and just go; give it a minute to run and thin out the lubricants a bit. But there are a lot of people who think you need to let the car idle for 10 minutes to avoid some…

The myth you need to let the engine warm up before getting going. Modern engines need maybe 30 seconds of idling before setting out. Letting the engine run for 5-10 minutes just wastes fuel.

White walls.

Oh yes, and here is candidate #1, the return of the Country Squire.

Methinks the Heritage Edition also comes with the MT/Rs highlighted in the other models. Not that tires should be the primary reason for favouring this model (that colour, the grille, steelies!), but they are a nice addition. Always fancied a 110 station wagon; damn that import ban.

It's a well-designed car in many ways, but there's nothing it does exceptionally well — it's comfortable, attractive, but not particularly engaging to drive, not especially useful, not really suited to off-roading, and not, well, not a car I'm going to dream about owning.

If you can get it on the east coast, Avery Rumpkin is absolutely ridiculous.

The "P" is to put the car into passing gear, everyone knows that.