Are you sure those are grilles? It appears there is stitching between the primary slots. Maybe these are interior HVAC dash vents.
I was browsing through the sporting goods section of Target one afternoon, when I hear an someone yelling loudly. I turn around to see an irate woman gesticulating wildly and screaming “Hey, dumbass!” After a second, I realize she was trying to get MY attention.
You do realize you’re on an automotive blog, and without Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and countless others who invested capital in new technologies, neither cars nor computers would exist.
And Rockefeller probably never got grease on his hands, Vanderbilt never drove a single railroad spike and Carnegie never mined a single piece of iron ore.
i couldn’t make it past the kazoo solo.
I think with EV’s, the dealer’s service SOP for a bad motor will be similar to that of a bad starter or alternator in an ICE car - swap out the bad unit for a new one and ship the old one to be remanufactured for the secondary market.
i like the LTD front clip on the Futura body, probably a simple bolt-on swap.
There’s one in the SW metro Atlanta area, I see on occasion. Kinda ratty looking, definitely a DD and not a show car.
I have three must-haves for a long drive:
Does it come with a MAGA hat and an NRA t-shirt?
Meh, it’s New Jersey. There wont be anything left for the lanternflies to eat after the gypsy moth caterpillars and Japanese beetles get though.
A friend’s mom owned the Mercury Zephyr version of the Futura, it was two-tone black and silver with a red interior. It also had the turbo 4 under the hood.
Now i see why wearing a kilt would come in handy.
Insert grammatically incorrect, inappropriately misogynistic comment here, ‘cause ‘Merica.
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They appear to be driving through some beige void.
Hmmmm....Everyone lives happily ever after, maybe?