So when you fold down the seats to carry cargo, the screens on the back of the front seat will be subject to being hit and broken, at the likely cost of something obscene, like $2k a piece?

No thanks.  Frankly, for most families, a Transit Connect Wagon is a FAR more logical choice at a tiny fraction of the cost.

I keep looking at that and thinking - “you know, if they ran a cutline across the upper third of that grill, deleted everything below, and made the thing a wagon, it actually wouldn’t look that bad”

But no, we need fuel guzzling wagons that add no real practical value instead.

The point is that since 2004, there has been no growth in size for the same trims.  People are complaining that they keep getting bigger - but they aren’t.  They stopped growing 15 years ago.

Frankly, it makes sense to do some of this. I’m sick of having to buy features I do not need or want to get one thing I do want. The argument against that before was that it created a proliferation in the number of ways something could be ordered, and that complicated production. But nowadays with so many of the…

“the only potential reality I see happening here is Ford making a handful of stripped-spec vehicles to advertise a low MSRP, dealers ordering about a dozen nationwide”

Sort of like the $35,000 Tesla Model 3 then? 

Ooh.. I have an idea...

Put big casters under the car, and connect a deployment device to your airbag sensors... airbags go off, casters drop and lift the vehicle off the ground so it can slide sideways easily.... :P

What’s bad is that they used to be considered best in the industry only a few years ago.

Of course, whoever made the Corolla’s lights that blind every oncoming driver should also be pilloried....

I’d tend to agree - and watching the videos, any intrusion has to be extremely minimal.

But consider the same thing is true about consumer reports and their data. Anything average reliability or better is basically indistinguishable for cars, and yet many consumers still use them like they’re the gospel truth.

Fusion isn’t dead yet.  They haven’t announced when they’re going to stop selling, but have said it will be around until at least 2021.  

The 2004 F-150 (11th gen, the 10th gen continued in production as the “heritage” model into 2004) was 211.8" long.   I should have been clearer on that.

A lot of people blame the “footprint” model for CAFE for truck bloat, but it turns out the bloat really stopped prior to the shift there. They LOOK much bigger, and…

OR you could see buyers shift to electric trucks for their everyday needs and then rent a gas powered truck for the longer tows they want to do.

Of course, the same could be said for a huge percentage of today’s truck drivers - they could save a ton buying an efficient car and renting a truck when they need one…

Note: You aren’t likely to get 200 miles on a charge while towing, even with the 500 mile range option.

So you’re probably charging more often than you claim, and thanks to having to charge a large battery, you’re charging for a long time - significantly longer than in a current model S, X, or 3.

It’s a recipe for a…

Interestingly, if you look at the specs of full size trucks, they haven’t actually grown much over the last 15-20 years. The beds have been lifted, the snouts have been inflated (ironically as engines have shrunk), but length/width haven’t really grown, and in some cases have even shrunk - the regular cab F-150 wit ha…

A Plymouth Valiant was never a “compact car”, much less a subcompact.

These commercials serve one purpose - to show how warped Americans’ priorities are. A $60,000 christmas gift? About an entire year’s worth of the median household income? Ok, some households make a lot more. It’s still a huge percentage of the vast majority of incomes...

Something this big of a purchase should be…

This has to be one of the dumbest stories I’ve heard today.

But its early and politicians can still easily trump this.

Personally I think some Honda managers should be in jail, too.

NYT ran a piece awhile back that showed that Honda knew about the problem years before the faulty airbags were installed in other vehicles, but did nothing until about a decade after they first knew of the issue. There are probably tens of millions of…

Not marketed under a GM brand, but from what I recall, my old Craftsman lathe was actually made by King Seeley (a GM unit at the time) using excess production capacity at GM’s factories.

There are a lot more charging stations out there than people realize. The problem is that they AREN’T as easy to find (though that should be an easy app-level fix) and they still take too long for people driving longer distances.

I don’t know about all the other manufacturers going upscale. The Mustang Mach-E is set to price pretty close to the average price of a Model 3.

And the E-tron is cheaper than a comparable model X.

Seems to me there is a combination of two things - the cult of Elon coupled with the fact that the other makers still…