But Justin! Dicks must be measured! Ford is just willy-nilly conceding that GT500 owners will come up short against 199mph Challenger Hellcat owners? Now Ford is saying “it’s all in how you use it?” WTF?

Ford of Europe called the 1st Generation Escape the Maverick, as well.

What’s more fun is knowing that GM divisions would occasionally fudge their displacement figures. The 396 Chevy V8 engine was really a 402, and Buick’s 400 was really a 401, but because GM internal rules barred engines over 400ci from being installed in intermediate cars for a time, Chevy and Buick understated…

327ci equates to 5,359cc, which rounds up to 5.4L.

I think you mean 3.7L 225 slant-6. ;)

Yes, but even BMW and Mercedes-Benz have to constantly screw around with their alphanumeric systems because they break periodically. Because alphanumerics are a mess and impossible to maintain if you want to add models or change anything down the road.

The Terrain is also on the Equinox platform.

The XT5 is a crossover that’s also FWD-based.

Didn’t Ford use 3 different 351's at the same time?

Buick’s old 350 was actually a 349, and its 455 was actually a 456. They could have distinguished themselves better from the other divisions with their own 350's and 455's if they hadn’t rounded.

How well has that platform sold? The highest expected volume seller on that platform (ATS) never hit anywhere near expectations. It’s being discontinued. The line of Malibu engines probably didn’t help.

The Accord sedan was launched 18 months after the hatchback in the US. Still the same generation.

My guess is that someone at Tesla figured out that an immediate 22% drop in sales that would result from closing the stores (assuming against all logic that that figure isn’t much higher because it’s fudged by store employees logging their own sales as online sales), would actually imperil the company in the short and…

Ever heard of the Ford Hunger March and the 1941 River Rouge Strike? He had his henchman literally beat the shit out of people for wanting to organize.

AMC fluctuated between 2 and 6% market share in any given year.

In AMC’s best years, they had the market share that Kia does now. In their worst years, they had about what Mazda does now.

Checkers did not use Chevy frames. They used their own frames and chassis throughout their long life as a manufacturer. The Superba/Marathon used engines from Continental at first, then GM. Probably other sub-assemblies, but the basic vehicle was all their own work. There were plans at one point to replace the…

You quoted words I never used. Maybe try reading my post again and comment on points I’m actually making rather than putting words in my mouth. Thanks.

Yeah, the ID concepts are stylistically interesting to me. But they’re mostly modern takes on old design icons.

Considering that it was Cadillac who eventually brought the 3.0L V6 Omega over and sold it at luxury car prices... probably too high to justify selling as a Cutlass Supreme.