False.
False.
I’ve gone cross-country in a 1975 Thunderbird, a 2003 Ram 1500, a 1983 Pontiac Bonneville wagon, a Ford Econoline van, a Chevy Beauville van, multiple generations of Suburban, and a 2010 Mustang GT.
If only they were more reliable... In 2008, I was briefly the “test driver” for the shop foreman at a Mazda dealership that spent his days putting new engines in RX-8s. I absolutely adore those cars.
BMW G26 (4-series Gran Coupe). It has the practicality of both sedan and hatchback while looking like a business-like sedan, and it drives like a sports car.
The greatest road trip of my life was done in a 1975 Ford Thunderbird in 2003. I drove it from Waco, Texas to World Ford Challenge 6 in St. Louis, Missouri, and back. Sure, it only got 12-14mpg (except for the few hundred miles where I drafted my friend’s 1986 Mustang and achieved 16mpg), but cruising along at 80 or…
Me too!
In my experience, 200 horsepower is adequate for most things, 300 is plenty for virtually anything, and everything above 300 is just excessive for the street.
Alphanumeric sequences aren’t names, so there can’t be a “naming scheme”. If they switch to using words to name their cars, then I’ll bother to learn how to tell them apart. (Same goes for BMW, Lexus, etc.)
They treat their employees horribly, so much so that you’ll find former Buc-ee’s employees at Walmart because THAT is less stressful.
Buck Fuc-ee’s.
Hey! One of my two suggestions made the cut. Even when I was a BMW tech slapping timing chain kits on N20s all day and chasing coolant and oil leaks on the rest of the lineup, I developed an unreasonable love for the 4-series, both in actual coupe and gran coupe that persists in spite of knowing how expensive parts…
New? BMW 4-series coupe. Yeah, the former BMW tech that hates BMW is willing to admit it. By the time I option out an Ecoboost Mustang to be as nice as the BMW, I’m within $3000 on the purchase price, and the 4-banger Mustang’s resale value is crap, the BMW has a better transmission and has a better engineered chassis…
The Flex was the absolute best version of that platform, and Ford built just about everything including the Taurus on it.
The GMC versions of GM’s full-sized pickups and SUVs since 1988.
1st Gear: Ford REALLY never wants to sell me another new car ever again, huh? First they plaster the Mustang name on a fugly SUV (I have no problem with it being electric), then they do the same to the Capri (I’ve owned 8 Mustangs, three of which were Mustang IIs, and 2 Capris, and the Capris were/are the real deal…
“Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouth won’t come cheap, when the automaker was originally purchased by Fiat back in 2014 the price sat at a cool $4.9 billion.”
I paid $1000 for a running and driving 1996 Toyota Avalon last year with working A/C, and have driven it 112+ miles per day, five days a week, for nine months now without a single breakdown that left me stranded (one window regulator failed and the steering rack leaks fluid fast enough that I have to top it off…
Mustang II, C6 Corvette, 2012 Civic, 2010 Mustang, Prius
Former Mitsubishi dealership tech here, and the Mirage deserves every bit of hate it gets and then some.
Not just no, but HELL NO.