This is easily my favorite feature of my Ford. Yep....THE favorite. It makes it so easy to travel light anywhere I go. The keys are hidden in the.....wait....not gonna tell you guys that! But really, it’s so simple. I walk up to my car, take 3 seconds to punch in the code, get in and go. When I park, I shut the door,…

They have $8.6B in cash, $6B in debt, but are planning on issuing $5B in stock to pay that down?
That’s some mental gymnastics, and my head hurts.

Fairly frequently, actually. Hence I bought a hybrid with over 550 miles of range per tank.

Hi Mr. SteveL,

Max range of all of those: 250 mi. And they’re ALL smaller....considerably so...than what I’m driving now.

Oh don’t get me wrong...it’s a BRILLIANT business model. He crowdfunds process capital for each model, then crowdfunds execution capital for that model by unveiling a new model. It’s truly brilliant.

You know that in order to get over 325mi of range you have to pay $70,000, right?

Honestly, if he had to pick only one of his endeavors to stick to, it should be SpaceX. It’ll do infinitely more for the human race than his everlasting quest for a sub-$40k electric car, which never seems to end. Hell...he’ll probably have ended up putting humans in space faster than getting a sub-$30k electric car…

Also waiting on their first profitable year...

I need “Christmas Don’t Be Late” in these voices.

They’ve been reportedly working on it for a decade now. In fact, that was their initial promise when Tesla first became a thing after debuting the Roadster in 2008. Still waiting.

Me: Hey! I’d love to drive an EV with reliable range, reasonable speed/accel for normal human driving, and compatible with the cost of living here in CA and my middle-class job/salary.

I just want to make sure we’re all on the same page:

This is the real-life case study F1 needed to justify reverse-grid races. It was riveting. You have to figure out incentivizing quali, but there should be plenty of smart minds to figure it out. Get it done.

What about a two-lap average in each session? You can complete the two laps at any point in time, so you could theoretically do two laps back to back at the end of the session if you wanted, but if you don’t get two clean laps in (see: track limits at parabolica) you don’t qualify....which would incentivize a…

The biggest problem Vettel has is he can’t get out of his own way. The Ferrari car isn’t great, for sure, but Vettel could be finishing a lot better if he wasn’t putting his car into other drivers’ or spinning on his own, etc.

Car and Driver reported that Ford sold 166k Fusions last year. That seems more than enough to keep it around.

I had the Fusion Sport. Honestly, for the driving I do, the only part that underwhelmed me was the gas mileage. Which is why I went to a Fusion hybrid. In city or stop-and-go highway driving, the hybrid does much better than the Sport. Sure, I can’t let the throttle out like the FuSpo could, but whatever.

Just read through the twitter exchange. As a child of a Ford employee, I’ve been brand loyal the entire 16 years I’ve been driving. But with Ford doing away with a segment that suits me better than any other, I’m looking elsewhere. It’s painful for me as the son of a man who worked his ass off for 36 years for that…

Moving or finding a new job is, of course, an option. Except neither scenario would really fix the problem, as I don’t want to leave the area in which I live and the general topography of said place involves a lot of increase and decrease in elevation. If I lived where I grew up, in Michigan, I’d have no problem with…