Who says I’m pro-CUV?

I hate the things.

I’m just pro-logic.

There’s no doubt in my mind that people don’t understand math. But they can understand that a crossover getting 28 mpg isn’t actually much worse than a car getting 31 mpg.

You and me both.

I’m pissed at Ford for dumping cars. And I think it comes with risk. But the crossovers they’re dumping them for are not fuel hogs like people want to believe.

And most of those sales continue even during a downturn. They aren’t pushing out sedans for more F-series trucks, but for more crossovers. The people who buy F-series trucks that would be scared off by high fuel prices are more likely to stick with them if they have efficient crossovers and SUVs, not sedans.

The risk…

At these differences in costs, you’re talking filling up every 14 days or so instead of every 10-12 days. It isn’t that many more fillups.

But we aren’t talking about $2,000 difference in costs per year.  We’re talking $667 difference between a Ford Edge and a Honda Civic at $4 per gallon.  The mpg of these crossovers is better than most of the cars people fled to when gas prices hit $4 per gallon in 2008.  If you stick with comparably sized vehicles…

You’re showing a hell of a lot of arrogance there - “Sure, it doesn’t work out for some people, but for a skilled driver like myself its great”. Sounds like a real menace on the road. Perhaps you’re causing accidents behind you and that’s why you think you’re beating the rush?

Got someone like that on my dashcam this…

4th:

Can we give it a rest on the chicken little bit about fuel price increases biting them in the future?

At $6 per gallon, 12,000 miles per year, here are the fuel costs for some select vehicles, using combined mpg:

2018 Ford Escape 1.5L : $2,769
2018 Ford Edge 2.0L : $3,000
2018 Ford Fusion 1.5: : $2,667
2006 Ford…

4th:

It isn’t clear from these stories what the incremental cost to Ford will be vs. if they stayed in the car market. They say $11 billion in charges, much of which will be for designing and tooling for new crossovers and other trucks - but if they didn’t make the switch, they’d be looking at new design costs and…

Nobody is suggesting dawdling down the road.

But when the speed limit is 35 and you accelerate rapidly from the light, you just hit the next light before its green, and you end up stopping while the people who accelerated at a reasonable, modest rate, they actually get to the light as it turns green. All you’ve done is…

You know what the proper solution is?

Monorails.

I hear they glide as softly as a cloud.

0-60 in 8.9 seconds in the mid 90s (a decade before the ford 500) would have been fast for a family sedan. Most of them were 10+ seconds back then.

And that’s the point - our standards have changed and what was fast is now considered abysmally slow, and then people bitch about not getting great fuel economy.  I wonder…

The stupid thing about racing around and flooring it from lights is that it doesn’t normally get you where you’re going any faster - it just gets you to the next stoplight faster....  

They’ve already reached that point, I believe.  There is no reason why the Model S in this video should ever have been totalled.

3rd:

This, coupled with obscene repair costs that you either have to fork out for at their stealerships or risk having features of your car disabled, are prime reasons why I won’t even consider buying a Tesla until they change their ways.

An investment should come with equity.  Seems like they aren’t offering it here.

Repaying credits related to fraud is different than agreeing to a price is different than asking for a lower price after you’ve purchased something.

Similarly, renegotiating rates for future parts is different than asking for refunds on old ones. And if you’re shopping for a supplier for parts, and Supplier A who…

There’s no reason to ever ask for a retroactive price cut or expect that to be given as part of securing a contract going forward. You can expect the best price going forward or go to another supplier, but that supplier wouldn’t have any reason to give you a refund based on what you paid your first supplier - so the…

Set a standard for me, certainly. Might have helped that it was a small town dealer, but I’d never met the people before in my life. They really sealed the deal when after that, their first offer on the car I wanted was a good $3k (14% or so) below what I was prepared to offer them as a starting point (which was…

Hell, when I was 22 and bought my first new car, the Ford dealer handed me a set of dealer plates and told me all the cars had keys in the ignition, and I should feel free to take anything I wanted out for a spin, just asked me not to have any one car out for more than an hour or two.  Didn’t even get a copy of my…