Many city dwellers and even more municipal fleets use hybrids, full electrics, or CNG (buses and other heavy trucks). Diesels are at their best on the highways, where many Americans spend their time.

I drive a 2012 Focus, which, thanks to being a godless socialist euro car, lacks the keypad. Even if you plumped for a fancy-pants Titanium, you couldn’t get the keypad. Apparently people were so miffed by this that Ford offered an add-on keypad as a dealer option, which looked like something from Pep Boys.

In a vacuum, these taillights don’t look that odd...but next to your head they look huge. It’s disturbing.

I think Ford is slowly fixing it. My fiance’s 2013 Edge has these stalks and they drive us both mad, but the 2016 a friend just picked up has the standard stalks used in my Focus, the Escape, and other Fords.

Well, that’s plain weird. I’m stumped.

That was probably a remnant of an old alarm system. I’ve seen cars from the ‘60s and ‘70s with lock cylinders like you’d use to unlock the doors on the fenders. They were attached to alarm systems back then and often left in the open as an expedient, but that hatch is a good place to do it on a Corvette, where cutting…

If the guy with the .45 casings reloaded them (which makes sense - loaded ammo can be expensive and it’s generally considered ‘easy’ to reload), I could see how he could lose a bunch if he dropped a bag full of them or it fell over.

It was a 2001 Camaro. I thought that was assumed.

And a coupon for the girl?

The new dark gray paint scheme is much better looking than the old pale gray. It looks badass AND hides the wear and tear.

What game is this? It looks like a blast.

The turned front wheel - the only way to get at the oil filter without A) burning your arm on a hot intake manifold or B) taking the damn wheel off. I loved my NB, but the oil changes were a hassle.

Seeing how much smoke these things are putting out, it’s a wonder any of them made it 100 miles.

DC-9s and their derivatives will be flying until the end of time.

This. The Chinese market has been slowly cooling all year, giving all of the automakers time to adjust their production and sales strategies and keep their profits up. The bottom dropped out of the market late enough that it shouldn’t have had much of an effect on Q2 results.

My Focus has a strip of steel in one of the tires. It’s about 6 inches long, a half inch wide, and 1/16” thick and embedded edgewise. It doesn’t weigh enough to throw off the balance in the tire and it didn’t penetrate enough to cause an air leak, so I’ve been ignoring it and the thrumming it makes as I try to eek a…

At this point, it might weigh the same as a S-10.

Crap! I figured I was missing something. I stand corrected.

Have you ever had issues with the diff or transmission? I remember looking for one of them used a few years back and all the forum posts I read mentioned driveline problems.

You’re missing out that Ford F-150s are still massively heavier and physically larger than the comparable GMs, as helpfully pointed out on Oppo the other day.