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So if they don't "fix" the front end, would that send you over to the Bowtie side of the street or around the corner to the Mopar store for your next sporty car? No flame if it would, I'm just fishing for how firm that statement of yours really is. Norm

By his own admission he isn't a 'car guy' (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/10/22/jim-hackett-love-ford-not-hired-wasacar-guy/). I doubt it'd bother him to kill off everything that wasn't a truck, SUV, or crossover if he'd get an ironclad guarantee of profitability by doing so...

Isn't that a significant part of the business case for just about every 'halo car'? Norm

More and more advanced is not a synonym for more fun to drive. Norm

While I can't say that I actually hate the Volt, I can tell you that I wouldn't buy one. And that I'd rather have my '95 626 back (a car of roughly comparable performance but far more fun to drive). Adding weight hurts you more by having to cart all that additional weight around than it can...

I'd take the much lighter chassis in a heartbeat. But build mine with a high-revving NA engine (which could be as small as 3.5L if the diet is successful enough and the chassis tuning good enough). If it could do NJMP/Thunderbolt in the 1:35's with maybe a change to RE-71R's on wider wheels, I...

It concerns me that according to that article Ford is aiming to be seen as a "mobility company" rather than a car maker. Maybe it's semantics, but it still sounds like "fun to drive" is getting thrown under the bus. "Mobility" may well be enough for SUVs, minivans, and crossovers, but that's...

You don't suppose that these days it's SUVs and crossovers (plus the trucks) pushing cars into the background, do you? Norm

Depends. Today we're leaving for a Track Night in America event for me, that turns into a little get-away for the two of us, so we're taking two cars. She doesn't go to the shooting range or always tag along on hardware-store errands, either. But most other times there's been two of us...

1) That the business of driving is sadly underestimated by many (probably most). It's not as natural as walking or running, though it kind of gets treated that way. 2) That people have made themselves slaves to instant availability and immediate solutions simply because such access is now...

They got what, 9 years out of the S197 . . . Norm

Maybe . . . and then again maybe not. Talking with a real passenger puts two more eyes with some potential for looking ahead in the car, assuming it's a licensed driver you're talking to. Hands/eye-free texting might as well be on another planet as far as I am concerned. Texting itself is a...

I have no idea how it might work (I was a structural engineer, not electronic/computer science/communications). All I was doing was reporting on the existence of such an effort. For me personally, it wouldn't matter in the slightest if any such technology came to pass. If I don't have a...

Suppose for people who are non-enthusiasts that they are denied use of their vehicle to go to the beach (air quality & traffic reasons) or go to the local shooting range (big-brother computer programmed to consider this an 'unacceptable' activity). There are endless scenarios for which remote...

Which opens the door to having your car made unavailable to you - remotely and potentially very suddenly - for all manner of other reasons at any time. Be very careful what you wish for. Norm

I've heard that the technology either already exists or is under development to deny cell service to the driver's seat without eliminating it from the entire car. But that's not where the root of the problem lies. It's partly the belief that 24/7 availability and instant information access...

:confused: The Coyote (and even the Voodoo) are part of the modular engine family . . . What I'd have preferred to see starts with at least a 98 mm bore and about 11 mm shorter stroke. Norm

The raw numbers may be the same. The driving experience is not. And that starts to matter once you get to the point where you stop defining car performance solely in terms of ET's and the numbers its engine puts up. In some respects, the whole modular engine series took a step back from...

The original Mustang had a 108" wheelbase. It looks smaller more because the styling is not intentionally 'muscular' or bulky. IOW, it's as much an optical effect as it is from the actual differences in width and height. The popular Fox-body Mustang was on a 101" wheelbase platform. The S197...

Hybrid technology isn't inexpensive either, especially after you factor in the subsidies and incentives that would cease to exist in an EV- & Hybrid-only world. Neither electricity-based solution will provide full vehicle performance all the way out to the point where the onboard "fuel" storage...