Like it or not, Lincoln is a luxury brand, complete with valet service and supposedly 'white glove' attention. My wife has one; I managed to cajole her out of her peasant S00b and into an MkZ AWD. It only took one test drive and she went from "I don't need a new car" ( S00b was 10 years old...
So how do vehicles like the Raptor R, GT500 & now the GTD manage to make warrantable for 100k cats?
It would seem to me that the stage 1 whipple ought to be able to work and not destroy the cats.
I get stage 2 and beyond is changing the equation, but how are the supercharged 5.2 cats able to...
YIKES!
When I was ... wow, this is really going back. 20th century ...
I took a truck to a local tire shop for a brake job. I didn't have a garage at the time and it was winter. The shop was only 2 miles, got brakes done, drove home. Drove to Walmart and back - 1.5 miles each way...
Mine were pretty new when this happened, ambient was in the 90's F and the road had good drainage and no ponding. I didn't go to slippery mode and just controlled my inputs deliberately and it did fine. It was a heavy rain but not a downpour; your typical PM thunderstorm.
Since it was in...
Absolutely. I finally got a ride in an EV early Sept. cab ride in Rome. The one in Europe, not the one in Texas. It was a Tesla Model Y(?). That thing was stealthy and quick; perfect for tight traffic in the city. I was really pretty impressed with it on those fronts, and the radar display...
The Pilot sport 4s is fantastic in the rain. It's not invincible, but works really well and gives you a surprising amount of grip and feedback.
Queue @robvas to point out it's not a track tire [which makes one wonder why FPRS campaigns them]
I would be remiss in pointing out that Charlotte is...
It rained both days of DH Track Attack for me and I got to use slippery mode for the first time there. Day 2, starting out in the wet was really enlightening. It's impressive how much grip the car has in the wet with smooth(er) throttle, and brake input and how well that intervention...
But, it is a Díck move that will help people buy electric vehicles and keeps Ford from losing as much money on each one they sell. Every time you see a Mach E, they should be thanking you for paying part of their cost.
LOL! I wish. 'Coon, small to medium dog or cougar. Definitely not a skunk, domestic cat, armadillo or porcupine and unfortunately not flattened. Big enough it caught the splitter and bounced off the undercarriage.
But, think how good you will feel knowing that your 2026 Mustang purchase with less features and costing more money than the 2 previous model years will help subsidize Ford's money losing EV program !
Because the most recent MY GT350 owners would be up in arms, that's why. Same reason there's not a supercharged 5.0 in the tremor or even the Raptor, because it would cut into Raptor R sales and tank the resale value of the ones in customer hands.