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BMW? Don’t look at me, I drive a 2015 Mercedes diesel...oh wait...

A Tahoe is considerably larger, and you can’t get one with three pedals. The former rules it out for some folks - like me; it wouldn’t fit in my garage.

s/Traverse/GM/

It’s not the truck for me, but only because I had one as a rental once and couldn’t see out of the damned thing! I was constantly nervous about changing lanes in it.

Not even close. The Gremlin was available with some serious muscle. The Pinto...wasn’t. Besides, the Gremlin isn’t a *&**$$#^%*&^ Ford product.

Well, it’s obviously not enough: they’re still selling the damned things!

Heh.

My current daily driver is a 2015 ML250 Bluetec that I bought off-lease. (Though I didn’t know that when I bought it.) Mine was leased by what I think was a unit of MBUSA, and lived its first life in Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. So far, I haven’t had problems with it, though I was disappointed and a bit surprised to…

Amen. Same reason I didn’t look for an RX when I was shopping this last time. (Well, that, and you can’t get a diesel RX.) You really have to wonder how many people that grille has run off.

I’m still discovering stuff on my not particularly well equipped 2015 M-class. This sounds like an endless joy.

I had several friends who had Explorers of that vintage. Half of them had great luck with theirs. The other half had endless transmission problems. Mine was the only manual in the bunch, though.

The last Ford I will ever buy, and the last Ford I ever owned, was a 1992 Explorer. Utter piece of crap - and Ford refused to do a thing for me when it ate the 5-speed manual transmission twice in the space of 4000 miles (and I had it towed 70 miles the first time to get rebuilt at a Ford dealer!).

Those won’t be options when the environmentalists (watermelons: green on the outside, red on the inside) have their way. They’ll outlaw internal combustion engines as quickly as they can, whether or not electrics are practical for everyone.

Neutral: What the Brie-eating bicoastal elites don’t understand is that people out here in flyover country don’t drive because we want to, but because we have to. Outside of the big cities, driving is the only practical way to get around.

I’m on my fifth one, actually. Had a 2001 E320 4Matic wagon and a 2008 ML320 CDI diesel SUV, and now a 2015 ML250 Bluetec, as daily drivers, and a 1983 380SL and now a 1987 560SL for fun cars. The ML320 lasted me 4 years and 60K miles with no real major issues.

Drop a turbocharged engine out of a 1991-1996 300SD/S350 in it, and get yourself 150 HP/229 pound feet. That should do better in the driveability department, and it’s the same engine otherwise.

Yeah, you can get a Foxstang convertible for a quarter of that. It would still be a &#$%$%^&*$#$%ing Ford product.

Same here. That thing’s ooogley with a capital oog.

I used to be a devoted Lexus weenie, but that grille drove me off. Now I drive Mercedes. I suspect I’m not alone in getting chased off.