I've never seen this car with the headlights up, and never realized how sad it looked.

Poor Ford. The Freestyle was a tough moment in their history.

its not perfect.

To begin, I should explain the term "halo car" for those of you who haven't heard it before. Here's what it means: let's say you're building some bland, boring, mediocre automobiles, such as the Ford Freestyle, and you realize that your stuff is so dull that sometimes the NHTSA forgets to crash-test it.

I agree with most of this — but I don't get why the car cost $400k. That ensured no one would see it, no one would know what it is, and no one would reasonably aspire to it. The Audi R8 is an exotic that we now forever associate with Audi and there are a lot of guys out there in S4s who want an R8 "one day." My dad…

So the push button falls out of it's mount?

The Audi RS4 is waiting...while you're dicking around, we'll go grab the groceries, too.

"It'll kill the BMW M3"

Much like a German stylist, you look bitter

hopefully in 70 years jalopnik will post article on how ''90 year old special needs guy works at ford dealer for 70 years''

As a parent of a child with special needs, this is just plain rad. I could go into a whole lotta detail and emotional insight, or ramble about struggles and challenges, but I won't.

Classy move, Apple Ford Lincoln.

They're only 400 miles from where I live, but fuck they'll have my business when I finally have saved up enough for the new mustang. My feels.

That... is a strangely attractive bus.

I want to do this with a double decker bus. It would be so filthy you would get herpes just getting in it.

Wait, stippers are, "optional?"

Sex with a russian stripper is probably pretty filthy