The GT3 doesn’t have rear seats. 

The 3.0L is a turbo engine. Good luck fitting that in the 982 engine bay. It’s a very wide setup. 

Oil changes and rotations are performed by low wage hourly kids. It doesn’t particularly surprise me that they didn’t rotate the tires. You get what you pay for (or rather what the dealer pays for).

The dealer I bought it from was great. I had to travel to get it (about a 3 hour drive). But my local lincoln dealers are split with ford and the service experience has been much much worse than I’ve ever experienced. It even forced my mother to trade in her MKX because it was so poor. 

My bad. It’s only on the titanium. The most common engines are the 2.5 and 1.5T

You gotta account for inflation with those numbers. 

Car jacking prevention***

I paid $20k for a CPO 2014. Outside of some here and there issues it’s been great. Better than the fusions I was looking at and much better equipped.

Technically no Fusion is equal to the MKZ in spec. The Fusion doesn’t get the 2.0T or 3.0T.

What other media outlets are suggesting buying shitboxes to get free tows though? To be fair that’s right in the Jalopnik wheelhouse

Most common causes of tows into the dealer is flat tires or dead batteries. Once in a while there’s a hysteric that the check engine light is on. But that’s few and far between.

You act as if it is unreasonable though. Most people assume if the manufacturer is footing the bill to have it towed they want it taken to one of their dealers.

Oh boy. The classic “I can’t back it up with numbers so I’ll just say I owned one” lol

The G37 and Q50 are midsize luxury sedans. But they are generally faster than a MK7 GTI (iirc the G37 sedan could do 60 in 5 compared to the GTIs 5.8). 

The VQ debuted in the Maxima. Before both the SUVs and the Z. And the Z got it before the Frontier was redesigned for 2005.

Q7, Bentayga, or Urus. Not Q5. That’s a Macan. 

Justin it is tiptronic, not triptronic.

It is very widespread. Hence why Yelp, BBB and other review sites have a bad name. It’s not scrubbing so much as flooding your business with good reviews. It’s a seriously common issue. Same with doing negative reviews on your competitor. 

Sorry don’t get on jalopnik often.

It’s not that they are hiding it in a way that is to prevent you from understanding anything. It’s still an engine. It’s just hard to make them visually appealing anymore. And the covers have the added benefit of sound dampening now which really curbs the ticky nature of DFI injectors.