I know it’ll never be more than “Just a K-Car,” but for $2,500, that’s entirely OK. It’ll always be fondly remembered by at least a few people. For what it’s worth, this is probably the OG K-Car at its peak.

This must be how snow feels.

To be clear, the Blackwood didn’t fail as much for the concept as it did for the execution. The Blackwood took all the utilitarian qualities of the F150 (Open, usable bed, 4wd) and threw them out to be replaced by fake wood trim. It left the truck with no more purpose than a fancy tow rig, a market already occupied by…

Would that make this incident....

$1,500 really isn’t that bad these days for a factory audio system upgrade. An upgrade for my wife’s ‘14 Flex, to take it from the temperamental My Ford Touch to Sync 3 with Carplay and Android auto, runs $1,500. $1,800, if I want to maintain factory navigation. That’s only for the control board and touchscreen assy,…

Related question, how many Gen Z’rs even realize the 3.5" floppy is where the save icon comes from. I feel like it’s one of those things that’s just been absorbed into culture without context. Just like the phone handset icon that hasn’t been relevant, outside of an office seeing at least, for 20+ years.

Far from it. There needs to be an external speaker retrofitted and then an amplifier that interfaces with the powertrain controls.

This Ford quality is cyclical. Anyone who’s watched Ford and its product over the years can follow the rise and fall of product quality like the tides. It goes all the way back to when Ford first became publicly traded. There will be a big push to improve quality, and a couple of years after that, it pans out. The…

Hey, you don’t get rich by just giving money away...

The car itself isn’t meant to be the money maker. The success or failure of this car determines the future of the brand as a whole. If it tanks, GM is out a relatively minor sum of cash, seeing as it was developed using a current platform. If it succeeds, that gives GM/Cadillac more premium credibility, and therefore…

Swap out for the 06-11 Town car cluster. Problem solved!

For me, it’s in between 2, so I’ll post em both.

V8 engine noises!

2023 (ish), in San Francisco, so....

This only works if Tesla stays committed to licensing this standard royalty free. I agree that there needs to be a universal standard to make EV adoption smoother, but I don't see non-Tesla manufacturers rushing to be beholden to a standard they don't have control of. This feels like if Apple tried to get everyone to…

It’s not that different than what Ford did with its sport branding. Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) went full line in the 90's and became rebadged as Specialty Vehicle Team (SVT) until ST and RS joined the fray during Ford’s most recent globalization effort. 

They gave that to you back in ‘05.

Nothing against the Galaxy Note from 2016, but IIRC, the original Moto X from 2013 was the first modern smartphone to utilize its AMOLED display to enable always on display. Man, I miss pre-Lenovo Motorola.

I could go for a Lincoln Futura right now...

Ok, to Honda’s credit, the lifted, high roof, 4wd version of the Civic didn't really go anywhere. It was just rebranded as the CR-V.