It’s like the Best Buy Geek Squad VW Beetles which were all fitted with cargo dividers, installed by punching long bolts through the floor pan.

Interesting. SO in the end it’s not Ford’s fault at all but the people being paid to modify the cars for police use. Honestly makes sense

Oh my, the Ford is so much better looking. Like not even close.

I wonder how many folks who leased shortly before Covid found themselves with a relatively cheap buyout in the last 12 months and just decided to buy the car outright. My parents were in that boat with a 3 year old Q5 that had like 12k miles on it. The pre-determined buyout price made it a steal.

There was a similar story in NY at the time. In that case one of the rear racks had been screwed into the truck directly in front of the fuel tank. The CVPI had been hit at 65+ mph and the tank ruptured.

Back in 2006, two Ohio State Patrol troopers and a civilian died in a collision when the gas tank of the P-71 ruptured and caught fire. It happened just a few miles from where I live, and was big news at the time. It was never detailed whether or not this was related to the issues you mention.

I can say first hand how much force a Panther takes in a rear end collision, I cant tell you for sure how fast they were going when I got hit, but I was looking out the rear windshield and I couldn’t move for a week after.

Welch Village MN

“Hell no! Can’t have these plebes wise to our game! We need uninformed voters and people who think grueling work (for us) is the only way to prosperity!” - Companies who lobby politicians to deregulate business laws and cut school funding for programs that teach financial literacy (aka public education).

I agree completely about teaching financial literacy, I would make a full year of that a requirement for graduation if it was up to me.

Yep. Schools teach this stuff. I remember learning how to calculate compounding interest. Then doing worksheets on how much you pay back if you borrow X dollars for Y interest. You can lead a kid to school but you can’t make them pay attention.

Its like Georgia has no major state advocate agency to fight against openly predatory lending.
From their state statutes on UsuryLending:

We actually had that reckoning here in Indiana when I was in high school. for the longest time schools didn’t teach financial literacy because “that’s the role of the parents” then the state ran a test statewide to see what the financial literacy levels were and oh god it was a bloodbath (we’re talking like a pass…

I keep telling people that if a Professor has a high score on Easyness at Rate My Professor they should stay away. While at university I made a point of taking the teachers that people complained about the most, and (with one exception) they all provided the most stimulating classes and the only ones I can still…

We can’t even reliably teach people how babies are made in our public schools.

i once had a roommate who was a teacher.  a teacher.  he told me one day that he’d gotten a notice from the bank that his checking account was overdrawn but that couldn’t be right b/c he still had checks left in his check book.  a teacher.

I took multiple, multiple, classes that discussed basic financial literacy in middle and high school. Math, home ec, micro economics. They all at one point went over how compound interest works, why credit card balances need to be paid off, and my favorite, why 0% interest for X months deals are a scam.

Absolutely. I got good grade in HS and my GPA dropped by at least a full point my freshman year of college. I was ready for college emotionally, but I lacked the discipline to do it on my own at the same level because my parents (mom really) and many of my teachers would constantly prod me to get my work done (I’m a…

Yes, that’s likely the result of grade inflation. They only did well on paper, not in reality.

I’ll admit I’m not the financial expert here, but my understanding is that the 30-day nature of these loans makes any sort of truth in lending page confusing at best and deceitful at worst. It keeps rolling over into a new loan until you pay it off, but the terms of the loan are month-to-month.