Am I seeing things or are those technically three-tone with a grey dish and the black and silver spokes?

That is a crazy good deal on a Focus ST.

I’ll say it, it all comes down to Freedom.

Can confirm the Fiesta 1.0 with the 5MT is a lot of fun and still returns great mileage.

So does anyone else feel like after the fervor dies down over how great Tesla is and how stodgy traditional automakers are, that we will quietly see Ford announce that they will be selling (perhaps a hybrid or electric) small car and midsize sedan here in the US?

Why do I get the feeling that they are hedging their bets on the Fusion by giving an open-ended timeline?

I’ve been going newer and newer on my F150 and regretting everything after the 97-03/04 body style. I prefer the older boxier ones for looks but damned if the rounded body ones aren’t the easiest ones to drive/live with.

It’s interesting that the 15" rims can fit as I was informed they would not which was my reasoning to avoid the car (though I got such a good deal on the SFE I’d have been insane not to go with it, it just took me about 6 months to find one which I ended up doing completely by accident). The roads up this way are hell…

No worries, I had a moment once at a dealership where I did see a sedan with SFE and an automatic but was informed when I asked about it that it actually had the 1.6 in it and was a 2013 before the 1.0EB was offered. TBH the auto in the Fiesta has been universally regarded as garbage and I can’t see the point of a…

Well at least now I see where you’re going but I’m not sure I buy the “crossover is the next evolutionary step of the sedan” argument. I’ll agree they are currently in vogue in the US, but not that they offer any practical advantages over a similarly sized car.

The last car I bought was a Fiesta, and no not a FiST.

Going to go out on a limb here and say the next WRX will look suspiciously like the current WRX, which bears a striking resemblance to the previous WRX.

I looked pretty hard at a Subi but man, that image of the Subi-bros is hard to shake.

I’m not sure I’d call their car lineup “God-awful” necessarily. I really don’t think it’s that bad, but hey opinions on the internet amiright?

...and SUVs used to look like this:

I actually agree wholeheartedly that Tesla has churned up so much speculation capital in the market that any conventional car company has to be feeling weird. If people get the stars out of their eyes, they don’t look so hot on paper and their growing pains should be giving investors more pause than they are.

Just off the top of my head, they sell a buttload of small cars to fleet customers who will now go elsewhere because they aren’t going to pay a price premium for a CUV.

Hellllllo group 4.

An “honest” truck with a $50K MSRP and a “sale” price of $43K?

The state bought a bunch of 1500 Dodges between 04-06 to use for forestry service and the like and they sold them off very quickly. The front ends were constantly needing repair and replacement, and (there is a Jalop article somewhere covering this) the front ends on those are a single unit on each side that is…