The Ford Ecoboosts in particular have always been the absolute *worst* about this. Those engines make great power, but the term “egg under the gas pedal” doesn’t even do justice how much you have to baby those things to get anywhere near advertised mileage. 

I would have figured there would be a ceiling to non-EV Tesla markets share due to the Tesla charging network being on an absolutely different planet vs. the public network. Although with other companies making deals to play nice and share, that ceiling might be lifted. I wonder what happens to the value of all non-Tes…

Eh, I think there’s a fine calculus to whether implementing this new thing from GM is worth the backlash. They’ve been running damage control on it ever since it was announced, and we likely won’t ever be able to determine if it makes a meaningful sales impact because there are so many other factors there. Ford could…

It’s just a model of how deranged a society we are that the response to witnessing a hit-and-run only involving property damage is... murder. It’s similar to how a marine on the NY Subway strangled a belligerent homeless man to death earlier this year.

Distracted driving is not nearly the point. As others have said in the thread, the real reason they are doing this is for:

This was the best part of the movie Vice. The people in the conservative think-tank absolutely hated the idea of increased government surveillance, but when it was framed as and a way to fight terrorism and labeled “The Patriot Act”, they loved it.  

Depends on where you live. The US was consistently like 55%/45% iOS vs Andorid until 2020, when it swung closer to 60/40 and has more or less stayed there since.

inb4 the dealers are screaming about a 60 grand vehicle with a fisher price interior sitting on the lot for 6 months

And yet, the approach here is to just keep tweeting through it, which is downright stupid. When you’re making a product choice like this in bad faith, it’s worse PR to keep on trying to come up with justifications for it rather than just ignoring the criticism and implementing it. 

If this is just an alternate version of AA, that still holds two problems:

God there is so much stupid flying around here.

Eh, this is partially a self inflicted problem by Ford that the 40 grand version they promised turned out to be a unicorn, not just because of dealer markups. 

I wonder how much of the waning demand has to do with Ford telling people they could get a lighting for around 40 grand and then such a thing not existing.

Heck, all other variables being equal, an Excursion with the 7.3 might be more than 8 grand over an equivalent with one of the Triton’s. I wonder if there’s some brave soul out there willing to swap this powertrain into a gas example.

The aversion to the Japanese classics has always been a dead-giveaway to Hagerty’s audience demographic. The description on the FF owns up to the fact that the collector market is changing, and is basically them doing the “how do you do, fellow kids?” meme. 

I agree this thing needs some kind of big gas V8 just because it’s more fun, but the Ford 7.3 is by far and away the most valuable thing about this car. Those powertrains still change hands for good money because they will outlive civilization itself.

God this thing rules, but I think the old 7.3 Powerstroke is actually the most valuable thing about it? I totally buy that it costed more than 13 grand in parts and labor to make... but you don’t price a car based on labor, whether it was reputable shop or however many nights someone spent in their garage on it.

Username is just a first name with a bunch of numbers, avatar is a furry animal...

Eh, modern e-motors are WAY outlasting the life of the rest of the car now. As others have said elsewhere in the comments, this Model S uses an older flawed motor that had a shelf life around 100k. For whatever reason, the new motors that last way longer don’t agree with this car’s hardware.

Maybe I missed it, but all it really breaks down is that “over half” of transportation emissions are from road vehicles, and the remainder is from aviation, trains, and ships. Not that it really matters, point is that even a full EV transition *now* would only take out about 1/6th of the pie chart, and we need to cut…