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  1. regfootball
    The newer ones ARE (in general) the heavier ones tho. Pickups used to be around 4000 lbs, now they cluster around 6000. IOW; it's not the weight either way that has anything to do with crash results. trucks being body on frame behave so much differently in a crash. It's to say exactly how best to assign and use weight on trucks. unitbody vehicles are using more of the vehicles materials more efficiently so of course they will be lighter. Trucks have added so much stuff but since they are body on frame, it is tough to optimize them for crash when their structure is not the best for dealing with crashes to begin with.
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    Chalk that up to the piss poor build quality of the '97 to '03 F-Series trucks where everything feels like its made out of paper mache glued together with old dog turds. The interior plastics certainly felt emaciated. "Chintzy" would be one way to put it, "cheap" would be another. I'm going to say to hell with politeness and mildness and say "$h!ty." The Taurus-look pickups were also notorious for their weak structures--poor crash test results and collapsible roof..inside, they went from cheap plastics and rounded on that era to blocky and cheap for the '04-09 and '10-14 generations... This new truck looks too much like the '10-14 with a Super Duty style nose tacked on, it doesn't really go anywhere new stylistically..same old boring ugly blocky truck. GM and Ram have much better styling, IMO. Ford purposely now changes the look little to little each year. Its as if they would take 25 years of the F150, a picture from each year, and make a cartoon book out of it. When you flip each page, you would notice little but subtle change. And there would be some change over time but it would be not much and even then the trucks would look similar. I think this new F150 reminds me of the early 90's ones actually.
  3. regfootball
    weight is not always the determining factor in safety, but its also an actual real world example of stereotypes in the market. Let me give you other examples, 'oh, it's a toyota, it's reliable' Weight is not really entirely about safety either. Another example. Something like a new Altima feels lighter and less solid on the road than the oft maligned for being heavier Malibu, because it is. But i know which one I would want to spend road miles in.
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    I think if they would have just converted the crest to a chrome ring in the same shape or something......
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    Balthy there are plenty of folks in these parts that like heavier iron in winter and in my time selling I encountered buyers first hand who dissed the weak build of the 97 + era trucks Even if they were the same weight as the pre 97, I always heard from the buyer that the pre 97 and post melted trucks were the ones they wanted because of how solid they felt in comparison.
  6. regfootball
    New look is very nice ! My iPad can't seem to pull up the front page stories when u click on them tho
  7. regfootball
    Tarted up accord
  8. regfootball
    i agree w/ ocn.... a 3.2t would be a good mill for this rig
  9. regfootball
    if i were truck shopping I would skip over the GM stuff and get this as I most often like the Fords better, but i have to admit the aluminum thing in a truck scares me a bit. What i would do is lease one probably if that were the case. I am not a typical truck buyer. So the lighter weight for handling and tossability would appeal to me. The 2.7 Ecoboost I would check into. Lots of roughneck truck lovers though like the fact that trucks are heavy and huge. The lower weight may turn them off. The melted ford trucks of the late 90's were light weight and there was a backlash to that. Now though, the engineering is more solid.
  10. regfootball
    http://www.caranddriver.com/news/2015-cadillac-ats-coupe-photos-and-info-news http://www.caranddriver.com/news/2015-cadillac-ats-coupe-photos-and-info-news 2015 ATS coupe photos
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    I really don't like pushbutton or rotary knob trannies. Of course, I haven't tried one, but the shift knobs work well and are mistake proof. I do think they have a much better design but i won't say they knocked it out the park. The interior doesn't look any better than the Fusion, and the exterior sort of has a stretched Dart aura about it aside from its unoriginality. Kudos on std AWD for the v6. It does allow Chrysler to compete, although I don't think this shape immediately says 'this is a Chrysler' when you see it.
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    sorento is a good ride and has a nice 'szie' to it. It is not a holking true 3 row, and it is not a compact. I looked at getting a base 4 popper once until i found out the real world mpg of the 4 popper is not at all very much better than the 6. A larger sorento 4 banger vs. a rav 4 for a similar price is a good deal. but not if the mpg sucks. The v6, there are so many choices out there. They get a lot of the basics right. Time for some new styling.
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    a few years back, i read an article that had projected that by like 2020 or 2025 there would be like 10 major surviving automakers. And then right about then was when GM lost pontiac, saturn, saab, etc. You're probably looking at GM, Ford, VW, Toyota, Nissan, BMW, Merc, Hyundai, Fiat Not sure how the Chinese companies fit into that in other markets unless they are the low cost provider. Conversely, I think it is interesting in markets outside the US where the BMW's of the world are viewed as lux products, how they are gradually introducing cheaper and cheaper products. They know they have to go downmarket and bread and butter some to remain one of the standers in the market globally.
  14. regfootball
    lotta power for a 2.0. overstressed?
  15. regfootball
    CLA did not appear to cannibalize the other MB models......
  16. regfootball
    Azerbaijan is a bit of a lost fish
  17. regfootball
    Audi is becoming a crossover company
  18. regfootball
    It's better than the orig new beetle was in its last few years
  19. regfootball
    Ford knows how to build huge volume for so many of its models. Escape, Fusion, Explorer, Focus, F150, they don't need many models to put up huge volume numbers. Even the Edge is at 130k units. WOW
  20. regfootball
    Verano sort of hits the skids. ATS did nicely and the Malibu made some nice gains, but prob at the expense of the Cruze.
  21. regfootball
    down 23% but the article was quite upbeat!!!!!!!L O L
  22. regfootball
    from the get go I thought it was bull$h! that the tzar decided we needed to sh-tcan pontiac and saturn but keep chrysler so fiat could ultimately do this. that said, it's probably better for Chrysler's position in the US now, otherwise they would still need to be put out to pasture.
  23. regfootball
    I'd prefer to keep Chevy and gmc separate. But really I don't mind whatever you'll do.
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  25. regfootball
    i wanted one......never got one!
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