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Plus I wanted to drive attention/traffic to the new EV forum.

You'd think they'd be able to turn a profit by now, but I guess they are still paying for the new assembly plants around the world.

Yeah I feel for you guys but its normal human nature for people to be negative or look for the worse in things. Pre-Internet days the local newspaper used to say that Edison assembly (where my dad worked) was closing all the time, but it was misconstruing the information-it was just being shut down for retooling or summer breaks. Then rumors on the assembly line-the plant was closing for over 25+ years till it finally did in 2004.

Oooh social media with a completely terrible hot take on something? LOL

The thing is that automotive news sites (well most news) just repeat the same story over and over with no additional information that has been reported already.

Yeah they are repeating the same bullshit Just like the Bronco Sport was going to be called the Bronco Scout or whatever other rumor comes about that gets page views.

Already in the EV forum

The two issues are the cost of the battery and cost of producing the rest of the car. EVs are far more simple to build vs an ICE, so new techniques and clean sheet designs will help with that.

2024 Ford Ranger First Drive Review: A Capable Truck I Don’t Want to Drive Some of the review is pretty ignorant...and the vast majority of the comments have no clue-I see no mention of it sharing the platform with the Bronco.

I got $3K for a 2010 Fusion Hybrid with 214K miles on it!

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/automakers-win-us-reverses-course-142526273.html

People are irrational and want the newest thing.

3 row EV? 😛

From the Bloomberg article: So basically they are quoting people who may or may not exist and might be just collecting data from unfounded internet rumors...

My wifes 2010 Escape shit a water pump about 10 years ago. We drove it back home (letting it cool off as we went) about 50-100 miles and it went on to have 157K on the 3.0L V6 it had before it was replaced.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/fords-bluecruise-hands-free-driving-assist-under-investigation-after-fatal-crash

Given the pricing of the Raptor and Bronco Raptor, the Ranger Raptor is a steal! I bet it doesn't stay that cheap or you won't get it without a hefty ADM on it.

The thing is that the standard deduction for a married couple is roughly $22K a year...so the tax "credit" would raise that to $29.5K?

How is that work? You have till the end of the year (April 15th) to pay your taxes..so if you have a consulting job that isn't a W2, you'd get a 1099 without taxes taken out...you could elect to pay quarterly taxes on it or just pay it all on April 15th. So effectively an EV credit would eat that amount owed to the government up a decent amount. Example, I buy a car this year 2024 and file on April 15th, 2025. I have a consulting/1099 job that doesn't have taxes taken out of it. Say I owe the government $5000 in taxes then, the EV credit would wipe that out...at least that is how I see it working.

No I was wrong: So basically if you owe the government $500 bucks for the year, you'd only get $500 back instead of $7000

It was part of the reason why I sold my SHO before I got my Bronco in (at the time it was only a couple weeks at that point and then turned into a complete shit show LOL), I was right at 100K or so with it and figured might as well get rid of it because I didn't want that big of an expense right before selling it.

Here is how it works now https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/ev-tax-credit-electric-vehicle-tax-credit The transferring it to a dealership is new I think and would be better for more folks that are limited with amount of taxes they owe, since its not a positive break, only eliminates what you owe, instead of being a credit.

Almost looks like they raided the Mach E center console.

I'm guessing the water pump issue is like the cam phaser issue on other Ford engines-it happens, but not to the point that a complete redesign needs to happen. Or PTUs on D3 platform

And the damage they take from minor fender benders are more expensive to fix also.