Joe771476

Oh I forgot. Most of my cars have been Fords.

Yes, don't floor the accelerator from a dead stop! The CV joint wants to rotate but the tire on the asphalt doesn't want to move as quickly due to vehicle weight/friction. Learn how to predict when traffic signals in your circle of travel will turn green and red. Most PROPERLY operating signals either using below asphalt loop sensors or high mounted cameras detect the presence and absence of traffic. When there is a significant absence on the main artery and/or a presence on the side street, the main drag light will turn red. The side street will get a green light for about 7 seconds if there are no cars, or will turn red about 7 seconds after the last car from the side street has passed through the intersection. This wont't work on a busy Main St. where there's signals at every block. But I can drive 50 miles on a secondary state road with 8 or 10 traffic signals spaced out and very rarely have to come to a DEAD stop! Do you know how much more brake wear is incurred bringing a 2 ton vehicle to a dead stop? Likewise, do you know how much more fuel you use bringing that vehicle up to speed from a dead stop? Don't rush up to red lights. Try to maintain a slow roll. My car is supposed to get 25 MPG. I get 31 MPH! I get 150,000 plus miles on a set of brakes. I keep my cars for 12 to 18 years and get 280,000 to 450,000 miles out of them. I also pay very little for property tax and insurance! Keep the oil and coolant full and don't beat your vehicles! Don't be in such a hurry! Go ahead and laugh. I laugh all the way to the bank!

Electric vehicles are all done!

Just hand over the crossover market. Just like Ford handed over Class 8 heavy truck, farm tractor, and the mid and full-size sedan biz. What's left? Ford light and medium duty truck, Explorer and Mustang! That's it!

Just watched an episode of American Greed. The episode was titled "Chasing Tesla. It's about the Nikola hydrogen truck hoax. You gotta watch this show; It's amazing what these various fraudsters will do for the almighty dollar! Anyway, the promos pitching the truck tractor and the Badger pickup truck were hoaxes. The video promo showing the tractor trailer doing 60 MPH on a road was the result of sending the truck down a steep hill and then filming it on level ground! It had no motor! The Badger pickup truck was a cosmetic makeover of a Ford F150! At the time of the episode airing, he was supposedly going to be sentenced in 2023. But the Nikola company is supposedly still in business, but I don't know to what extent and I haven't searched it yet. Even GM was hoodwinked and hooked up with Nikola at some point.

Good going America! Screw one of the last two great American auto mfrs.!

Have Takata fix it! Do all your manufacturing in-house!

I just can't help but wonder that the parts shortage is a conspiracy by someone to sabotage Ford and take away the best selling vehicle crown and to take down Ford. How do you like dem apples?!.

Finally the insanity is abating?!

A company in business since 1903 should not have quality issues. That being said, these younger generations can't produce the quality of past generations. The best solution is going back to the Rouge plant: Everything in-house. Bring the raw materials in the back door and spit out the finished product at the front door. How can you ship all these components from other subcontracting plants and foreign countries without the shipping costs negating the labor savings? I don't think you can justify it anymore. Yeah I know some resources aren't here in the USA. But let's give it a try and do as much as possible to not rely on other entities.

Good one!

Let them price themselves out of a job! We won't be able to afFORD a Ford! And if Ford continues its path toward EV's, they will be out of business!

So I haven't been hallucinating?!!! LOL

You can't reduce the carbon footprint of a carbon based planet. Don't even try! They're just wasting billions of dollars. Our bodies are made up of 19% carbon. Without carbon and CO2 we'd be dead! Every human exhales 2.2 lbs. of CO2 per day. The population of the USA and the world has doubled in the last 50 years or so. So let's blame people! Trees need CO2 to fight off infestation and disease. I submit the climate change agenda is harming the planet. These scientists came up with this greenhouse effect nonsense and people bought into it?! Really? These scientists say milk and eggs are good one year, second year not, third year good again. Pluto was a planet, now it's not. When a hurricane is coming they draw 10 paths of where it might go. But let's believe these scientists for a moment. They say we've had climate change events (warming AND cooling) for million of years, right? There were no cars and industrial plants back then! All the cars and industrial plants don't emit what human exhalation, rotting vegetation and volcanoes do! Oh sure, I'm all for finding alternate energy sources and we shouldn't dump plastic in our oceans. But leave the chemical balance of the earth alone! Humans take in oxygen, emit CO2. Trees do the opposite. It all happens at low altitude. And this is not by accident. An intelligence was involved! I'll let YOU decide where that intelligence came from. The Earth will still be here long after man. What? You don't believe that last statement? We're building robots that someday will be building more robots. Apparently we've learned nothing from the Terminator movies! Man is the dumbest species on the planet!

This is why I don't buy new vehicles anymore. Too much electronic baloney. I buy 10 to 15 yr old vehicles I can fix myself most of the time and drive them another 200K miles for 10 more years. Mostly Fords.