Thunderbird-”They’re super reliable”

I haven’t actually, but the fact you have means someone bought one instead of a different more accommodating car from another manufacturer.  To Ford a sale is a sale and the only thing that will change their mind is to buy something from someone else.

I would love to do a V6 turbo swap in a TR7.  That car would fly.

Dunno, the Bronco Sport and the Escape kind of sit in that space and the Escape already is on the same platform as the Mav with a hybrid AWD set up.  It wouldn’t make sense for Ford to cannibalize their sales on crossovers by introducing a van.

Ford could probably convert the e-transit to a passenger van and it would be what you are looking for.  They already make the gas version in passenger form.

Right you are, I need to brush up on my Bonnie Tyler lyrics.  It’s a heartache.

Wouldn’t the title track be Kenny Loggin’s “Footloose”?  You want to talk about soundtracks that dude dominated soundtracks- Caddyshack, Top Gun, Over the Top, One Fine Day, etc.

Bonnie Tyler’s work as a whole is amazing. Fun fact “holding out for a hero” was originally written for Footloose (1984) after Paramount asked her to write a song for the movie. It was later used it in Short Circuit 2 (1988).

So the title is “Where have all the good vans gone” which I assume is a reference to Paula Cole’s “Where have all the cowboys gone”. Yet the subtitle is “I need a streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds” which is from Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding out for a Hero”.   What is going on here?

It is very different than reselling car parts as a battery pack is a giant fire hazard that needs to be tested pretty stringently and needs a full cooling management system to operate safely.

My favorite (maintenance aside) was the ‘03 VW GTI VR6. It had the 24V Vr6 with 200hp (up from the 12V with 174hp) a 6 speed manual and all the low end torque all the time. It didn’t have the tuning potential of the 1.8t but it had plenty of power from the factory and if you wanted more get an R32. Great commuter, fun…

As an owner of a 1993 Si in teal I concur. It had over 300k miles when I sold it.

They can have a productive life and I have seen articles about it but it seems that’s not really a thing people are actually doing. You still need to use a Battery Management System to regulate temperature as an EV battery is a giant fire hazard if not properly regulated. The other problem is the price for secondhand…

Europe has a lot of laws in place making the OEM’s responsible for the total lifecycle of their products the U.S. is lagging on legislation for that.

I didn’t say they couldn’t be recycled. I said that currently the easiest/cheapest way is to melt them down for raw materials for new batteries (Pyrometallurgical process). You can also use chemicals to break the materials (Hydrometallurgical process) down but my guess is that’s not super environmentally friendly…

For damages in a lawsuit the phrase normally used is “but for”. For example I would have full use of my arm, not have internal bleeding, or a punctured lung, but for a helicopter parked in the middle of a trail. The damages were caused as a direct result of negligence. Those are both easy to prove in this case. 2…

“While EVs emit no tailpipe emissions, producing them is hard on the environment and they continue to require electricity to operate.”  Those cover production and operation, end of life (EOL) is another issue.  The batteries have to go somewhere at the end of the EV’s life cycle.  An ICE vehicle is made of mostly…

A popular conversion for the TR7 is to drop a GM V6 in so I really don’t feel that different about having an easier to work on/source parts/more reliable/more powerful engine.

Biden also kept most of Trump’s tariffs. You can certainly blame Trump for initiating them but Biden had the chance to dismantle them and didn’t.

I guess the Traverse Z71 would compete with this and that is packing a 328hp/326lb-ft engine that gets about the same if not better gas mileage. Honda always has been pretty weak in the engine department but they are getting beat by even Kia at this point (Telluride is 291hp).