Godsdamnit!

I know it’s an innocent typo but MAN do I want a car with havoc controls!

Torch,

My first thought was that it looked like a mid-cycle refresh of the Chevy Cruze with a glowing pony from Autozone stuck on.

It’s gotta be fast with all those speed holes.  

Ford: “Let’s not sell anything North Americans actually want to buy!”

I don’t buy it. I think there would be a real world price difference between the 2 trucks of 10k minimum. (USD conversion of the australian version is 58k, fully loaded only), the price of an average raptor build (not fully loaded) is well into the mid 60's. I also don’t buy the millions to conform; The base Ranger is…

Hackett spent 30 years selling furniture and for some reason was hired to run a major car company.

Ford is a really confused company right now.  They are writing chapter after chapter of the management school case study of how to fail.

I would be very surprised if they didn’t bring it over. They might not call it the Ranger Raptor, but I presume they want something to compete against the ZR2.

Also, the ZR2 just popped its airbags in excitement at this news...

Don’t get your hopes up, Ford seems to be full of bad ideas right now. 

He compared the Brewers’ move to Machado kicking Aguilar last night.  Come the fuck on.

Wow! This is an awesome move! I love the gamesmanship and I can’t believe that it hasn’t been done before. I’m sure MLB will probably come up with a rule to prevent this.

that would be the sports politician answer. look to the, “fuck that motherfucker” exclamation for a more accurate sense of his feelings 

I’m not sure it was strictly necessary for Machado to raise his hand high enough to have a fair-to-decent chance of punching Arcia in the nuts, myself.  Sure, probably not illegal, but pretty assholish, I’d think.

Conspiracy theory: he fired thousands to hide the fact that he really only wanted to fire his best friend.

My Sears automotive memory is circling the hell out of this in the Christmas Wishbook:

I’d love to see that, because from a chemical standpoint, aluminum doesn’t corrode like that... At all. Once a thin layer of corrosion forms on aluminum, that oxide prevents further corrosion from occuring.

so the fuel economy is worse that the competition and the front end is hideous, this is going to be interesting