The problem with the “slow” statements are that everything else got faster, and more expensive over the past 3 decades.  For its’ day, it WAS fast, but quite a few things have changed for the better since.

Ford hasn’t exactly been hitting it out of the park lately with quality...the crappy “Powershift” DCT being a rather notable example.

Anyone else find it interesting that all the Japanese manufacturers, other than Nissan/Lexus and Mitsubishi are worse than the industry average?

Would have been four, but they ditched the Magnum in order to build the Challenger...yep, they’re very old car platforms.

“unprecedented politicization of the Justice Department“

Well, you could buy this...the power train is essentially the exact same one that came in that Voyager...think of it as the car that was inside that Voyager box.

Back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, automatic transmissions had TWO fluid pumps, one driven by the output shaft...so therefore, my old ‘64 Galaxie 500XL COULD be push started, but you had to get up around 15mph or so to get enough fluid pressure.

Reminds me of the “Seagull” District managers I had to deal with in my previous life as a retail manager.

In the early ‘80’s pretty much everything WAS sacrificed for fuel economy. Here are this car’s competitors, which for fuel economy, had Diesel engines in 1980.

The K cars weren’t exactly a great thing, either...but people expected much less out of a car in those days.

It’s even scarier with the newer direct injection engines...2000-3000 PSI pressures aren’t unusual. Old throttle body injection systems were often fairly low pressure, around 15-20 pounds, and port injection systems 40-70 psi.

Oldsmobile, 1968-‘72 too...for some reason, I can’t attach the picture.

The Firebird was a great example I was just about to mention.

The impact moved the truck about 5-8 feet farther down the road.

Crack pipe lighter.

It’s an idea that GM tested at one point...I remember reading in a few enthusiast magazines back in the day of development mules GM was testing that used the 60 degree V6, and that the performance was impressive for the era. I always wondered why GM never produced any, since they obviously had been playing with them,…

I think the real blame is the deliberately fuzzy marketing.  People believe Autopilot is capable of things it’s simply not capable of, and Tesla knows it, but is utterly uninterested in clarifying in plain language, because it’s far too profitable to maintain the status quo.

I was thinking the same, blended with a 60’s vibe Falcon rear half.

I definitely prefer this to the ersatz 50’s “Thunderbird” Ford ultimately built.

It was a fair number of years ago, but I’ll be glad to try to find it.