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X-plan nets out to ~4.8% off MSRP. It's a lousy deal except when the market is distorted by dealers who think they can still charge over invoice. And yes, all Ford discounts including 'loyalty/private offer cash' are stackable. The Firefighter/student $500 discounts are every bit as eligible...

change your diff to 4.30 and your MT82D4 is bassically the same as the original MT82D5. but 4.3 is not common and rather extreme. Most people who want to go down this road are happy enough with 4.09 gears.

how DARE you, sir! It's JDM, We all must worship at the alter of JDM. Granted I'd love to get my hands on a Skyline GT circa 1983 and a 2-tone twin-turbo Toyota Celica of similar vintage. Simply because those were my favorite cars in grade school. And every Sunday I would stare longingly across...

creating account on bring-a-trailer now... 1 dollar minimum bid? :)

the cloth seats are a visual improvement for sure. The bolstering seems to have gotten softer though and thus less effective. But maybe that was my imagination. I'd say the interier doesn't scream cheap, hard plastic quite so loudly.

no, not by a mile. Copying the look of the IMSA GTD class Lexus with its giant bulge body panels is just #metoo. Supposedly there are Vipers still new, sitting in some warehouse in Detroit. The problem with 160k back then (1993-2010) was it was REAL money. Now 200k is "nothing" but a flutter of...

which is gonna crash HARD. The consumer is GONE at these prices.

no. but why would it need to be priced so silly? They make a ton of them for the F150. in-line pancake electric motor can work both ways, feeds a 20-30KW pack. Otherwise pull a Mopar and put an Ecoboost 4 or the antique v6 (chopped into an I-3?) to drive a genset and put 4 elec motors at the...

than what? The base S550? I drove the 650 GT and my 550 EB back to back. Slight difference in spring rate. They drive the same. If Ford "improved" the 650 dampers they failed to make any useful change. If all you do is piddle around town and Cheech+Chong your way down the highway, it's not all...

the Stellantis numbers were pure manufacutring cost: parts, raw materials, labor. NOT including marketing, paying the white-collar engineers, the accountants, corporate legal team, janitors, building upkeep+rent, taxes or any of the other costs of "running the business". price of part(s) paid...

so I saw a post on YT (yeah yeah) that claims the cost to Stellantis of building a RAM 1500 was $35,000 as of last week. And they charge a clean double to the dealer (MSRP). Hellcats were $37.500. I wonder what Ford's figures are for Mustang. $20-25K for a base GT?

heh, I just need to go around Fairfax county (beltway DC) to know the value of MR. In the abstract. That doesn't mean I'm going to drop 13K for the privilege.

don't own a sword. Now a Klingon Bat'leth on the other hand...

If MR was a $2000 option instead of $13,000 (forced upgrade to Premium and PP), it's worth doing, even though Ford's MR programming is 'meh' at best. If the GT doesn't come with the same SKU as what the Mach1/GT500 use, then replace the front dampers with those. Assuming Ford hasn't gone and...

For some reason the black on white car the trunk 'seam' is not so obvious. Was it not an option to perfectly butt up against the seam lip? Or extend just slightly beyond and remove that eyesore?

nah, wood shop. You can't see the Elmers drips and staples.

I don't want nice, I want competent. Unfortuantely the steering can't be fixed by 3rd party. I also do not reward failure to do the job RIGHT by giving the manufacturer another $8000+ to only sorta kinda make it less embarrassing (magride). I can fix the problem for half that (Ohlins) and have...

maybe so. But there is NO excuse for us importing steel and aluminum. We should be making that right here. ok, I'm not sure how much bauxite we have in-country, but Australia is still fairly friendly, so maybe we wean them off the Chinese teat.

if you don't have to pay $3000 to walnut the head and valves because the Direct Injection fouls it up. Or $650 for a new starter (TWICE!!), $1000 for a new alternator, $300 for a new giant battery, and $2600 for labor to replace said starter after a $150 pyro-fuse malfunctioned and fries the...

likely meant to type 51.