How is it less useful? It drops towing from 4,000 lbs to 2,000 lbs, but it also makes it more offroad capable (still mildly capable, but certainly more capable). Quantifying that trade off is hard to impossible. To someone that might go take advantage of those offroad additions, but never breach 2,000 lbs towing, it’s…

What do you think is a “fair” price for a lift/suspension, improved AWD/diff, drive modes, transmission cooler, half-shafts, and skid plates?

Gotta give credit to the comment section: you folks discovered two errors I’ve now corrected:

Why is it hilarious? It looks good. Plenty of people want an ever so slightly beefier looking Maverick, and this does that without having to delve into aftermarket suspension and all that. $3k doesn’t sound like an unreasonable amount of money for a small lift (1"), a transmission cooler, the fancy rear diff (I’m not…

It’s to prevent exhaust gases from accumulating in the low pressure zone behind the rear hatch. Not for noise abatement. Ford revised the exhaust exits on the 2018 and 2019 Interceptor Utilities due to the issue.

This is the result of a recall a few years ago, around ‘18 IIRC. Something about the original design of the dual exhaust on the Sport and Interceptor models allowed exhaust fumes to enter the vehicle through the rear hatch and people were getting sick. Ford’s response was to make those downturned tips the standard…

Sure, but the Ford Trucks of the 80s-90s they are referencing with this two-tone color scheme just had contrasting rockers, so it is accurate.

What’s 70's car had double DIN? I don’t think single DIN even came out until the late 70s.  Most 70's American cars had a 2 shaft radio.

Had a first gen Sync in my old Fusion that got wrecked. For what it was, it worked great. No touchscreen (had the dot matrix screen), so no maps. Voice commands were good for calling and choosing songs, synced up with my iPod with no issues, did everything I wanted it to except having a screen for maps of course.

And it’s worse than that…

The first-gen of Sync wasn’t bad if you consider the technology back then. It was MyFord Touch that caused a ton of headaches. It either worked perfectly or it would crash spectacularly. There was no middle ground.

Low hanging fruit, but Tesla. It’s not just that switching between basic controls involves shuffling through menus - the bigger crime is how they set this awful trend of covering the cabin in screens and tying all controls to one (not entirely reliable) interface.

Anything that looks like it should be a touch screen, but uses a console-mounted joystick.

Journey needs a shoutout for terrible placement. Your eyes have to go so far from the road, it looks like they put it as low as they could get it.

I could waste 6 minutes paging through 13 slides or just click once to instantly look at the colors on the Ford website. Hmmmmmmm, what to do, what to do.

The last few years, customers have revealed they love their vehicles painted in a nice hue of cement mix, and so more automakers have come to offer it.

I would just like to state for the record that the glossy primer grey that seems to be all the rage right now looks like dogshit.

Yup. Cyber orange, Velocity blue and Rapid red are the top 3 colors and beyond that I don’t care.

They are gas motions.

I mean, Ford wanted a Wrangler competitor. Significant recalls really give you that FCA experience.