Please accept my condolences about your head gasket failure...in other news, why does an AWD car even need launch control(*)? I thought the optimal drag launch was to hit X RPM, drop the clutch, and replace the transaxle every 20k/mi or as needed.

Whether the contract is enforceable of not, buyers signed it, Ford wants to discourage it, and those lawyers are on payroll so why shouldn’t they use them? It costs them nothing unless the judge elects to award attorney fees. For Ford dealers I’m sure there are other extra-legal penalties as well.

#1- I’m not sure “shoehorned” is entirely fair because there is not an ounce of difference between those Pintos and the Mustang II front subframe which had that engine as a factory stock option. The weight balance wasn’t great but I don’t know that it was any worse than a FWD car, it was probably better.

Assuming his Trumpiness gets his way on rolling back efficiency laws, 1000hp? Sure (for a price). 1000hp at 54mpg....um, not so much.

Sometime after gas hits $8/gallon and the rotting corpse of Dodge is passed on to team Korea for 3500 won? ($3.50 USD)

Please feel free to pick an opinion and stick with it. I already told you it’s not worth that much, none of them are. You picked an outlier and decided that was the regular price. That may indeed be the price 10 years from now after California style emissions laws and the lack of time machines reduce their numbers…

Thats less dark than what I always thought it to be (why yes I’m intent on murder via vehicular manslaughter...oh snap she’s got a kid. Maybe the next person that cuts me off intentionally)

Because they ask you those questions like straight away when you join Facebook?

“Strong prejudice to women and minorities in the workplace, less competition from foreign workers and casualties from the war” 

We can only hope...

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Clearly this is all my fault for not inventing a time machine or causing a world war (pretty much how we ended up with those cushy pensions to begin with). I take full responsibility. How dare I compare my lowly self with the difficult degree and many post-degree certifications to my father who possessed a GED and…

;)

Im not sure where $kaycog is today but I’ve got your back...er...front

Most of us are making the same money we made 15 years ago. I mean, it’s more dollars but since each one is worth less it works out about the same.

“BMWs are a gateway drug for learning to do your own work. So straight-forward to work on, the forums have all the tribal knowledge in the world, and awesome aftermarket support”

Also a river in Africa but that’s entirely unrelated

Denail

Side airbags are not mandatory as of 2018 in the North American market. Maybe it simply didn’t meet updated impact standards?