They can handle much more than 5 volts, you'd probably (don't sue me on that) be just fine plugging directly in to a cigarette lighter. The partially finished swiffer-bot I built handles 9 just fine, and AFAIK they all have regulators on them that should handle 12V+. People put regulators on their supply side mainly…

Still prettier than an Aztek.

Because as any proper automotive enthusiast knows, weight is The Enemy. It ruins everything, from handling, to ride, to acceleration, to your birthday. So let's hope that Fords engineers have worked some sort of suspension wizardry to make it feel like it's dancing on air.

I'm a little surprised they haven't added some sort of piezo-electric function to it. Pressure = voltage, and a car puts out a lot of downward pressure.

This! Why subject expensive fragile solar panels to traffic, nature and manmade road dirt and grime, cause traction issues, etc? Put up an inexpensive roof over the roadway and mount the panels to that! It'll even keep the cities cooler by preventing the roads underneath from absorbing so much heat from the sun.

Just like the horseless carriage was a bad idea.

The US government has plenty of money. The problem, is that we let them spend it on a worldwide war machine, instead of using taxes to pay for the health and wellbeing of the population.

neutral:GM, just bring back the El Camino and Jalopnik will make all your problems just sort of dissapear

People were a lot more style conscious in the 1960s and a lot more accustomed to having a massive amount of options in models and body styles when it came to cars. The Mustang was created because Lee Iacocca believed that a more stylish version of the Falcon (Ford's standard compact car and already one of the best…

One step closer to flying cars.

And to think, back when the tuner scene was sucking up twin turbo Supra's, my friends and I made fun of everyone driving a tuner car painted this color. If my memory serves correct, I believe it was known as chameleon (generically)?

If its anything like the Ford Mystic or the BASF extreme it is a multistage paint where the 1st coat is black and the rest is all the colors.

In my experience, left lane bandits are just oblivious to other traffic while tailgaters are just obnoxious. Tailgating is annoying at the very least, and unsafe at worst. If I'm on a secondary road where there's no safe place to pass, tailgaters piss me off like nothing else. It's not like I drive slow, either.…

people there tend to work instead of calling and attending perpetual sensitivity seminars.

Regarding the steering/handling, you gotta drive a vintage Cadillac for a truly harrowing experience on modern roads. Lightning fast steering that responds to the slightest input that makes the car surprisingly nimble in a parking lot or slow traffic, but with no actual handling to speak of. I hear about disconnected…

It's a smart buy until you realize that, for all its value when new, it's going to depreciate like a rock. Whether or not it deserves to depreciate doesn't really matter, it's gonna be another Phaeton in that respect. They'll be $20k in just a few years.

This is nit-picking in the worst form. You know exactly what I meant.

You Europeans have short memories....oh wait that is us. Who is this Motley Crue again?

maybe they copied the parts of the ford that were "made in China"

The Dodge Challenger. It looks like it drove through a time warp from 1970. It is the same big 2 door coupe your Uncle Frank drove when you were 9. I love mine.