Of course it doesn’t. While some people have been talking about massive savings, it is readily apparent to those who paid attention to the specifications and costs that these simply won’t come close to paying for themselves, and that there are much cheaper alternatives for backup power.

Heck, for a price premium of…

Good grief. They didn’t lose $45 million. They lost $154.2 million. You shouldn’t support their use of voodoo non-GAAP accounting in order to claim that their losses are much lower than they actually are.

Red vinyl but no red velvet seats? So sad... :(

You would think. But the industry isn’t exactly rational.

When they first started talking about imposing the increased mpg requirement, the manufacturers screamed bloody murder, saying it would kill their pricing and the industry and they should let market forces rule instead. Then, barely two years after the…

The solar panels don’t mean you have to tow the same trailer. You can have them connect to the cab just like you currently connect lights on the trailer to the cab. A simple MC4 connector would make the job easy and quick.

I disagree on this one. With any vehicle if you want to get high mpg, you need to learn its quirks. These are no different. The quirk here is that if you mash the accelerator, the turbo kicks in. However, on most, I’ve found if you ease into the gas, you can bring the rpms up without the turbo engaging, then you can…

That’s exactly what I thought at first - but now I’m not so sure the shadows aren’t playing tricks on us - and that we might be looking at the drivers side - if you look at the rear door opening, the upper half looks like a depression for the door to fit into, but the bottom half looks raised, like what you’d see from…

Several parts of the profile (such as the bumper cutline, and general shape of the c-pillar) are right, but the rear doors look far too short. When I first posted, I thought this was the passenger side, but perhaps it is the driver’s side? The passenger side would have a fuel door cutout, which is what led me to…

I can’t place this car part, but it certainly isn’t for anything made at Ford’s Chicago plant.

I was about to point out the Blackwood when I saw the Mark LT here. Ford sold 36,187 Mark LTs in the US over its 4 model years. That’s a higher average monthly sales rate than the MKS or MKT is at currently.

By comparison, only 3,356 Blackwoods were ever sold. I completely geeked out one day in the car when I spotted…

Probably won’t happen. When Ford was designing the 96 Taurus, they found a door mounted mirror design that beat the pillar mount ones for fuel economy, but more importantly at the time, for noise - there was a *dramatic* difference in noise level, with the door mounted ones being as quiet as not having a mirror at all.

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This might not be a bad deal, depending on what dealer discounts end up being. You could already get the current model for $22,633 after federal credits (and no state credits) through truecar. So if the dealer discounts aren’t as steep, the net price could still be higher on the new model.

Big problem with this pre-owned program: While most certified programs will provide a warranty that the powertrain will work properly for a fairly long period of time, extended from the original warranty, all Tesla is guaranteeing here on the battery is the same thing they guarantee in the factory warranty. No…

To me, its a bit of a question of whether you want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat or a mace. Neither is pleasant. :)

Still ugly.

I still say these systems (past the first generation Sync) are stupid, overly complicated, and wastes of money all the way around...

But Consumer Reports is full of feces for making the problem seem worse than engines or transmissions blowing apart. You still get where you need to go. The car still starts and runs just…

I used to. And my insurance cost me about $400/yr then, too.

Remember - I stated that was an OLD report. Do a quick search for a newer one and you’ll find that survival rates are much higher. Or do you think cars built in 1990 were no more reliable and long lasting than those built in 1977?

I got my oil changes thrown in free for the life of the car. Fools didn’t know what they were agreeing to... :)

What’s a party? :)