How many of these pursuits involve stolen vehicles where knowing the make/model/plate doesnt’t provide reliable information as to who is driving the car? What if the police department doesn’t have access to a helicopter to follow the vehicle? What’s to say that not pursuing the kind of people that would even flee from…

Oh no not rich people car show!

The leather on the wheels of my last two Fusions (current generations) feels less like leather than the hide that was on my 1993 Taurus. It’s weird. Also gotta agree with the OP on the Escape/Explorer interiors. They look like hot garbage.

That was a problem with duratec derived 3.4L V8 in the 3rd generation SHO.

I have the Enterprise D blueprints somewhere and they were kind enough to fill the deck plans with bathrooms. And lounges. Oh god the lounges. Lounges everywhere. You could seat probably 10,000 people in the lounges alone.

G/O Media is the worst thing to happen to some of the most entertaining websites, writers, and articles I’ve had the pleasure to find on the internet.

Really, I’ve always found that most bartenders were happy to have at least one customer at 8am. I only know this because I worked midnights and am in no way an alcoholic.

I leased a 2012 Focus with the Powershift and for the first 8 months it was great. Quick and seamless shifting, and the thing turned out to be rather beastly in Michigan winter snowstorms. Then it all went to shit and for the next year and change I wished I had picked the 5-speed. Mine was a hatch without the…

“After careful examination of the evidence we have concluded the Mr. Epstein committed suicide after repeatedly striking himself in the back of the head with a large metal pipe.”

Considering how quickly these DCT cars began to exhibit problems, I have no doubt that Ford engineers knew there were design problems with the transmission, and management pushed it into production anyways. That is not Job 1 Ford. Shame on them.

Couldn’t replace the headlights once though?

Ah well, I still think the two door version of this generation is a very handsome and understated car. There’s nothing grotesque about it, just simple and nicely proportioned.

The dual clutch in my leased 2012 Focus didn’t make it a whole year before it started having problems. A week before I turned the car in I found myself driving down the road accelerating normally and the car just went into neutral. With nearly all of them being problematic, I have no doubt that engineers knew about…

I really liked the look of the G6 when it first came out. Heck, I still think they look pretty nice today. And there’s something appealing about a 4 door car with a 3.9 liter pushrod v6 that can be had with a 6 speed manual. It also had that neat multi-panel glass roof deal going on.

At one point I had both a 1993 Taurus and 1995. The keys would work in each others respective ignitions but not the door locks. Somehow I had managed to drive one car to school only to realize I couldn’t unlock it afterwards because I had the wrong key.

Oh man, Strange Days was one of favorite movies in the 90's. Hadn’t thought about it in a while until now though, thanks.

The Ford Forty-Nine concept was the retro styled coupe I wanted when i first saw it at NAIAS, and still want to this day. It’s real sad the personal luxury coupe evaporated for the most part.

Fun Windstar fact. In 1996 the 3.8L got new heads and intake manifold and was good for 200hp and 230lb-ft of tq, making it the most powerful naturally aspirated iteration of the 3.8L Essex V6. The V6 Mustang wouldn’t get these upgrades until the New Edge 1999 model and were only rated at 190hp. In 1996, the ‘stangs V6…

Theoretically I suppose it could. It might be an electricians/linemans nightmare but you could probably feed it into your home wiring with a totally not up to code homemade cable (don’t do this). You would have to turn off the mains breaker first and depending on what kind of amperage it outputs, you’d probably be…

Yeah, and the Ford Indigo became the wacky open-wheel convertible that was sold to the masses over the Plymouth Prowler while the Dodge Copperhead duked it out with the Miata as the small, affordable 2 seat roadster.

The GT90 would be a modern collectible with it’s quad turbo 720hp V12.

Anxiously waiting for my body-on-frame, aluminum bodied, VTEC V8 powered, low-range 4WD equipped Honda H-150.

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