I was predicting that the sedan version would suck. My bad.

I’m with you, but the Grand Marquis de Sade rides like a truck compared with the Avalon. Great taxi though!

Yup - Toyota out-Buicked GM. Where are the cushy American cars? My bones ache just looking at Cadillacs these days. If my body sinks into the seat up to my neck and I get a little seasick on the BQE, I’m home, baby!

So true. While it is a classic, add in what it will cost for metal repair, new paint and then having to move to to a salt-free climate and you have a bad deal. Besides, this car was anything but sprightly in it’s day.

Funky as your link looks, it was a really satisfying click. Kudos!

Called and raised.

I can’t help but wonder about the shift to V6s in the exotic class. It isn’t about cost, obviously. Could it be packaging/weight or is it more about torque at low revs?

That IS Paul Sr.!

Dayum, that motor was carrying some momentum and left it’s host for dead.

I was zooming around in my CRX one fine day, passing people over double yellows and a cop nabbed me. I’m sure that he saw the grandma holding me up, so he let me off with a two warnings - one was that he’s seen what happens to the legs of people who crashed in the Honda. I wiped my forehead when he was out of sight…

Sorry Justin. You married? If you are, you know - the woman is always right. I’m with Kristen in this one. The Ridgeline is much better than the Tanoak (on content, reliability, civility, etc.) and is still a hard sell. Good luck foisting the VW on ‘Muricans other than Richard Spencer fans.

Ask a cop. They are just as popular as the Charger. AWD?

Don’t forget training. A properly trained American crew in an older, basic Abrams would probably take out a brand new one operated by Chechen militants in seconds.

Ford has a history of putting it’s costs above human life - you know, the Pinto thing? They need to work a lot harder on this stuff to live that down. They are failing - again.

Don’t worry. Trump will come to his senses and back off the trade war. He has always been a reasonable man and doesn’t have any trouble admitting it when he’s been wrong.

Why should Ford care that the parts bill for a crash goes up? Seems to me that it would be beneficial to them. I don’t know about you, but I rarely check insurance costs on a car that I like. Then again, I buy boring Hondas and don’t have to - with rare exception, they do well in crash tests. No, in this case, Ford…

Man, this “article” is just more NYC trolling and now everyone is as fired up as Gawker likes them to be.

Exactly.

I wouldn’t have called it sluggish around town. It was a manual after all and you get it to do what you wanted if you knew anything about stirring it yourself.

I dunno - it sure felt a lot faster than 7.7 sec to 60. One thing I can say for sure is that it would do it’s tested top speed - 140 or so.