What did Ford do with it? TONS.

*Dearborn Engine was retooled to make smaller variants of the Duratec engine.
*Cleveland Engine #1 was retooled to make ecoboost engines and reopened (had been closed)
*Cleveland Engine #2 was retooled to make 2.0 and 2.3L ecoboost (onshoring work that had been done in Spain)
*Lima Engine…

But yeah, Consumer Reports really took Edmunds to the woodshed after that report....

And my BS meter was soaring off the charts when the dealership offered a 50% discount for paying in cash and not using insurance. Sure, it does save them some costs not having any extra paperwork... but not THAT much. Any business…

I guess to be fair, I'd wager a good number of hoods are ever never repaired, except maybe for very small dings... You can get a new aluminum hood for a previous generation F-150 for around $500 shipped. It wouldn't take too much damage before replacing would be cheaper than fixing... (note, this applies to…

THIS. x1000.

The nonsense attacking the F-150 because of a staged Edmunds "test" that failed to take even reasonable steps to minimize cost is beyond absurd. Especially when people keep wanting to talk about the taillight expense - which I would agree is ludicrous but has NOTHING to do with the vehicle being made of…

I disagree - one option poses the threat of eliminating your rights entirely. The other simply bleeds you. The latter is a superior option if for no other reason than it gives you a chance to build up a fight - the former kills you before you have any chance.

Unfortunately, Unions are generally left with a practical choice like Obama v. Romney. So you have one person who is in favor of free trade agreements that can be detrimental to labor, and the other who is in favor of even more expansive free trade agreements AND wants to legislate unions out of existence.

The unions…

Actually counts as a vehicle getting around 36 mpg when it comes to CAFE calculations. What you see on the sticker is not what they use in their calcs....

There's a flip side to this, of course. All of that economic investment hasn't suddenly brought Mexico's living standards up to the rest of the NAFTA triumvirate and it's possible that certain free trade agreements could have a real cost for American workers.

The free trade agreement slowly phases out the chicken tax, with complete elimination in 2021.

As such, Toyota will offer unionized workers their biggest pay lift in 13 years, which is about 3.2% on average or $32.94 a month. Not a huge amount, but it's a big deal for Japanese companies. This is good for Abe, who needs personal wealth to grow along with corporate wealth to spur domestic consumption. Toyota has…

And we should note that this is terrible even after being auto-tuned. Villeneuve wasn't auto-tuned that I can tell..

Auto-tuning.... the worst plague that ExxonMobil has ever released on the public.

And it can have hillarious results:

Now I'm going to have that awful jingle stuck in my head.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwymdrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Volvo.

Because Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwymdrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Try to say it. I dare you.

Miller Motors in Ypsilanti, MI.

Why?

It's a Hudson dealer. Yes, the company went out of business 61 years ago, and the dealership is still in business, dealing only in Hudsons. To be fair, they have an auto museum attached to it now and that is their primary revenue (even assuming the primary name for the…

Exactly. And groups that measure residual value and report it as a % are almost always reporting it as a % of MSRP, which is absolutely idiotic. Then your in your truck example, if the trucks both drop in resale to $30k after 1 year, the "residual value experts" report that the $50k MSRP truck only retained 60% of…

Meh, its close enough when you've been up for 20 hours.

and

Honda does not want to be GM and thus it will start advertising that there's a recall related to airbags in an effort to get people to come in and fix their cars.

Invest the money. Save the money. What's good for the hedge funds aren't good for America.