If this was 1917, people would be bitching about hand crank starters and electric ones...
There's just something about getting wacked in the shins that makes you one with your car.
Kind of like you're making an argument for people to buy something more sensible, like an Accord. Did you feel this way about the GT350? Perhaps not the looks, but the performance?
Rumor is that they'll have a new driving mode called Cars and Coffee, which will drive you out of a parking lot, pull on to a road, and safely drive you away from potential carnage.
Fuel economy and ensuring the car meets upcoming CAFE requirements is the first reason. Power is important, but the investment was surely justified by fuel economy standards.
They didn't expire, they were updated in 2007, under the Energy Independence and Security Act. Among part of that act raised fleet averages to achieve 35mpg by 2020.
Furthermore, in order to even change the standards the regulations have to go through a rule making process (governed by the...
There's legislation that Congress would have to repeal in order to get rid of a lot of it. The stroke of a pen is very limited on domestic issues for the President.
Just for the sake of discussion with regard to an increased redline (7400), which is 650rpm higher than the current.
If the power band has also extend peak HP out 650rpm, occuring at 7150 and they're able to produce the same amount of torque at peak HP (351 ft/lbs) that was produced at peak...
To me, the issue with the front is the proportion of the lower grill to the upper grill. Along with the plain-ness of the lower grill. It doesn't speak performance as much as it does cheap midsize rental car.
The funny thing is I like understated, but this is just a flop.
I don't see Ford holding off deploying a DI/PI 5.0 engine that's in the F-150 till 2020 in the Mustang just to save it for a new generation. They'll want to scale that setup to get cost down, not make it more expensive for them. Also, CAFE targets get tighter and tighter each year. They may have...
A TH400 and a glide would suck on a road course. Auto vs manual on a road course doesn't hide driver competency. That said, an A10 will likely improve everyone's relative lap times vs a manual. Nothing wrong with that IMO. To me, the joy of driving is car control. I can have just as good of car...
Since the guy delivers presents to billions of people in one night, I'd think the sleigh has got to have on the magnitude of multiple factors of UPS's fleet of trucks and aircraft. We're talking probably billions if not trillions of HP in order to get that amount of work done in a 24hr period.
Let's put some perspective on this...
>$1 billion went into developing this transmission between Ford and GM. Occam's razor would suggest this isn't a marketing scheme, but rather built on engineering since a partnership between competitors is involved and a tremendous amount of money has...