Can I offer an alternative for a saavy buyer who beat the dealer system? Perhaps some prime-credit borrowers took the ridiculous interest rate with the intent to refinance/pay off immediately and reap the benefit of a lower principal amount because the dealer required their financing for it.

Easy. The Herkimer Battle Jitney. Best non-lethal vehicle ever and totally scrap-proof.

nothing makes you feel more like a man than a thundercougarfalconbird.

Either way, my issue isn’t really “first model year” it’s more “Ford new car launch.”

It may or may not be possible to test at elevation, but I think that’s critical. If not then test at max GVWR. It’s fine when a car can do 0-60 in 9 seconds with a driver and nothing else, but with 3 friends and their gear? Plus a roof rack? That’s where the bigger engine comes into play.

Is the Hybrid system the existing one from the Escape?

I think it’s based on the same platform as the Bronco Sport, which itself shares its platform with the Escape and Lincoln Corsair, so it shouldn’t be TOO bad. 

“He also noted that “there’s a long story to this,” which he plans on sharing in the future.”

I’m an older outdoorsy type and drive a sedan but that’s exactly what I want it for. Throw my hiking, running, or biking gear into the bed and rinse it down once I get back home. Instead of what I currently do which is put the rear seats down and awkwardly load my bike sans front tire into the trunk and putting my…

It doesn’t say one way or the other in the ad, but maybe this one was owned by John Voight?

As a Sonic fan, I’ve resigned myself to being the gaming equivalent of Alt-1985 Lorraine Tannen to Sonic’s Biff.

it’s real, it’s spectacular

Two years ago I scrapped a car I bought in 1998. It was a Nissan Maxima with 370,000 miles and it was rusting in important structural places. I hated to see it go. It spent a lot of time sitting over the 21 years I had it, as a backup car to several other vehicles, but I always held onto it just to have a manual to…

It’s 90% about how you drive.

Nintendo Online is $20 a year, not month.

Chevy Avalanche problem of being a converted SUV instead of a truck.

BRING BACK AZURIK!