Sideways engine and FWD is somehow even more fundamentally at odds with "truck" than it is with "sports car". Fix that and I won't care about the unibody. Front's still ugly though.

A Honda V6 gets you 280/250. The Ecoboost 2.7 is 325/375 stock, and a chip away from 385/450+.

In the four years you let my comment sit before responding, I’ve split my time between our casual business office, field centers where dirt is a way of life, and international offices where classing it up is expected, and I’ve yet to need any hand-washing skills.

Problem is they’re still losing money. Doing that on a few thousand cars, you can argue you’re below minimum efficient scale. Losing money on 50k cars that cost 100k each means even 5 Billion in sales doesn’t give you enough economies of scale.

Agree completely. These things are crazy expensive, but they look far better than the original with that awful MKZ/MKX grille.

For maximum value, don’t you need to combine this venture with something like a trip around the US (not across, but a big circle), Ubering full time, or passing it around your friends so that it’s running as much of the time as possible?

4DSC? Come on, you can say it with a straight face.

Sounds like an economic conservative and social liberal, aka libertarian.

“Drops down to minus 173.”

I clicked this thread specifically to find anyone trashing the CLK GTR. The racing program brought us the road car, which makes it a success by the only standard that matters.

The one thing I want from this is a weight more like 3500 than 4500. That’s honestly all it would take. Chop off the front and rear overhang and call it a Dart if you have to.

Seinfeld, who can no longer do shows on college campuses because the professionally offended crowd won’t tolerate dissenting views, will ride around with a guy who built a career on pandering to victimhood. Awkward.

Sure it has. You just picked the wrong 90s Mustang:

The 1983 record doesn’t stand because it can’t be beaten, it stands because no one has taken any number of faster cars there. The 900+hp V10 F1 cars would’ve easily done it. But it’s sad when things like artificially gutting a racecar’s power does more to determine lap records than the actual limits of technology.

They really need to do one where they text the rally notes back and forth, if only to see how many people suddenly get super serial.

A trust fund baby, who has wealth + time, would be in a better position to put miles on it than us or the folks actually buying them: high earners whose jobs require a ton of their time.

The most important distinction to me for city vs highway mileage is the number of startups and RPMs on a cold engine. Ten 5-mile commutes means 20 times the car has been started up and likely driven a couple miles with cold metal banging around, versus a single start and then 100 miles at ideal operating temp.

I would take this all day over a snoozefest S Class. And nobody reading this article has the 40k anyway, so no risk of anyone being swindled into it.

The “right” way would be to remove the driveshaft so the transmission isn’t turned by the wheels (which in theory could overheat it), but short of that I’ll take front wheels up in neutral and keep the distance reasonable.

The only thing I don’t like about them is not being able to get that TT V8 in something reasonably sized (ditto for the RS6/7 engine) but you’ll find this whole website hates them.