Well Ford already has the Platinum level. I’m guessing it is supposed to be in reference to tungsten carbide machining tools, since those are sort of the best all-purpose machining tools. The other materials you specified are all associated too much with bourgeoise luxury and not the “working man” luxury of a truck.

My wedding ring(s) are Tungsten-Carbide with a diamond chip. It was $80 at Overstock, or you could overpay at roughly $500 in a handful of jewelry stores I saw the exact same ring in.

Probably because the word sounds sexy. People buy wedding rings as an alternative to gold, if I remember correctly.

They’re definitely still available in Japan. https://toyota.jp/mirai/?padid=from_tjptop_carlineup_car_mirai

The only true GTs on the road that can almost approach it, looks-wise, all cost nearly 3x as much brand new (The Ferrari Roma, the Continental GT, and the DB12), and aside from sheer “road-presence” (aka size), none of them look as beautiful from every angle as the LC.

Honestly, if the LFA had looked like this (and you…

Or maybe their founding past was as proctologists...cause that grille looks like ass.

Ace and Gary agree!

They’re pretty rare to see out in the wild. I remember seeing one in person for the first time as it passed by me. My head was on a swivel, eyes glued to it. There’s nothing else like it on the road. And it’s mere presence breaks necks.

“Predator grille”

Or on the flip side, they’re trying to sell as much as possible after the 100 year production delay the demand far outstrips supply so they want every unit possible to be a sale, not scrapped for crash testing.

No-one has ever ‘got out of trouble’ by accelerating.

Cost cutting to make a vehicle less expensive for consumers I guess is commendable, but cost cutting to increase profit margins rarely works out well for consumers.

The entire Cybertruck just seems like a tall stack of bad ideas with almond syrup drizzled all over it. I’m all for rethinking what a pickup truck is - but this thing is (poor) form over function to the nth degree: A bed you cannot access from the side, unintuitive 4 wheel steering, body panels that will take fingers…

In their defense, they advertised reduced long-term corrosion, they said nothing about short-term corrosion.

Yeah.. given the short distances that are typically involved, I think a slower impact speed is the best we can hope for. A kid will survive a slight bump.

They are all horrid. Porsche came to (or stayed in) their senses. Does make you wonder what mystery brew of drugs the designers were on at the time.

Avoiding kids while backing up is honestly the core reason I keep my EAB on. Backing into a car or pole will ruin my day and maybe someone else’s. Backing into a kid (especially in an SUV) is a completely different thing. Even the best behaved kids with the most attentive parents are able to find a way to run behind a…

Where are those generic motors and battery swaps?

Now lets be fair!

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