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If pickups can get away with notchback rooflines because of their oversized open trunks, sedans can also.. Maybe the solution is to put trunk lids on pickups and call them sedans. It is funny if you think about it, the most popular trucks of today essentially are high riding full size V8 4dr sedans with big trunks.

You have some advance intel you'd like to share? - - - - - California, Sequoia, circa 1910 ~

Why do chicken coops have two doors. Because if they had four they would be chicken sedan's.

The 7G-Tronic is a longitudinal transmission, not a transverse transmission. If Mercedes couldn't design and build a decent front wheel drive transmission, they should have contacted the experts over at GM.

European cars have a certain charm, but I plan on owning only a few. A high maintenance vehicle is like a high maintenance woman...best done sparingly, with specific goals in mine. In other words if it flies, floats or F@#$& you are better off renting it. The same thing can be said of European automobiles.

It'd be nice but reduced drag of the current body styles make that a difficult thing to hope for..

It would definitely be a Lincoln or Cadillac followed by the Asian brands. German engineers just to everything so different it is more difficult to do regular/simple stuff on our own.

The 9-speed has largely been fine in everything I've driven with it. I highly doubt that it will be less good than the Terrain 2.0t. Cadillac has to do literally nothing to the GMC tuning to make it top notch. If there is anything about this engine has a question mark next to it, it would be the active fuel management.

See, this is why you are da' man! I know you don't have a personal affinity for Ford and Lincoln, but you are certainly the most even minded when it comes to talking about a brand that you don't favor. Kudos, AHWNN.

People aboard the International space station also discuss them...what is your point? In all reality the Lincoln probably is bolted together to stay together longer than a lot of European and Asian cars. Still something about Ford reliability I don't like, but were I to own a luxury car out of warranty...it would probably be Lincoln or Cadillac. They did it with 1950's/1960's era technology, and 50 plus years later a bunch of those cars are still on the road with doors that work fine. I remember finding suicide door Lincolns in Junkyards in the 1980's that had been in horrific accidents...doors still operated perfectly.

For what it's worth, I laugh at almost all jokes, including almost all jokes made about Italians. Sometimes, it's more about the irony, sarcasm, stereotyping, fatalism, and drawing of parallels that overrides the facts. Q: Why do most men die before their wives? A: They want to. Anyone have any other jokes?

I understand that fully... problem is...young Greeks dont forget... Yes its a joke in a...joke thread... But like I told you... http://en.protothema.gr/10-600-archaeological-findings-that-were-stolen-by-germany-during-wwii-return-to-greece/ And that is just with the looting...the bombing of infrastructure, the Greek POWs, the strain the Allies and the Germans put on our national identity pitting us against each other with the communist accusations and the like... Oh...it seems like young Italian millennials have NOT forggotten either... He dont seem too happy with the Greek government on how the Greek Government is handling the issues...Im guessing he sees Italy's economical affairs in the same way...you know...the heavy austerity measures taken by the EU (Germany) and the poor Greeks and Italian civilians paying for German arrogance...By the way What is this doing at the Louvre? And why havent these been returned to Greece? And the Brits call these arrogantly the "Elgin marbles" Greece owes billions to the EU because Greece is socialist? Because Greeks are lazy? Yeah...real funny joke. Now...I dont get riled up on politics or on jokes involving political shyte, I laugh...but, I dont see where the joke is in this. Nazi Germany and MODERN Germany has really put the strangle hold on Europe, even France has felt that choke hold, Britain left the EU...BREXIT (mistake on their part or not), its telling that that joke really is not a joke, but a propaganda tool meant to silence the people that are pissed off... And you, being Italian, I wouldnt be making that kinda joke either. Germany has phoqued Italy plenty of times... It took the GREEKS during the end of the war to protect you in Greece from the Nazis!!! So...without this going deeper into poitics, I assure you that the "joke" you tried to tell, well, reality of it all is that Germany is the one that OWES billions to Italy, Spain and Greece for not playing fair... All the VW, Audi and Mercedes plants, Siemens and the like are all in Germany...Opel too. You know, formelly known by General Motors. Spain has VW owed SEAT that builds cars in Spain while Italy has its own automotive manufacturing. Greece relies heavily on olive oil and feta cheese. And tourism. And when the EU decides to buy these products on the low side of the price scale, you know, for the good of the EU, for Germans to eat, and when the economic bubble burst and Europeans and North Americans cease to travel, the billions that Greece makes from tourism is all but gone, and the billions that is owed to German banks for the Olympics and the infrastructure improvementfor Greece to host the millions of tourists...well, Greece gets into a funk...and Germany wants its money...through hell and high water...Germany wants its money. Germany wants to bleed the Greeks dry! Its not enough the looted her, bombed her, now they want all her money and treasure and bl;ood! But Im supposed to sit here and laugh? Because its a joke, right?

Currently, millennials in Italy have forgotten what the sentiment toward Germans was like in the 50s and around there. Time, globalization, and the internet have smoothed over some of those dynamics and the differences, not to mention the fact that the EU has allowed many folks to move to other European countries more effortlessly. At the time you refer to, the average Italian on the street was blindsided that they would be allied with the Germans in a war they did not support. For people from that generation, the attitudes toward Germans were not exactly positive. My parents were young and remember the bombs that the Allies were dropping on the countryside as a result of who their country was in bed with. Sicilians felt liberated when the Allies finally stormed through and had essentially taken back the island, as depicted in the epic film "Patton." The joke, as I'm sure you know, has to do with Germany's Angela Merkel era and the countries in southern Europe whose economies have teetered the most during this last global recession. But it was a joke limited only to the current era ... on a joke thread.

Yeah... Problem is... The Spaniard and the Italian had some sort of ties with the German in the past... The Greek, not so much... I would laugh at that "joke" if it werent for this... If Germany would actually pay Greece for all that above, plus all that Germany did during the first one in 1914...then Id have pity for Germany... And dont get me started with Greece's other European "allies" either...

Plastic on the rear bumper yeah, not all over the place. The Q5 has way less plastic on it than an XT4. And if Cadillac has an exclusive 4 cylinder (which is sort of a waste of R&D dollars unless it runs super quiet or something) why does it make less power than an Chevy 4-cylinder? Cadillac has 258 lb-ft at 1,500 rpm? Mercedes GLC makes 273 lb-ft at 1,300 - 4,000 rpm BMW X3 makes 258 lb- ft at 1,450 - 4,800 rpm Audi Q5 273 lb-ft at 1,600 - 4,500 rpm Not surprised by who has the most torque at the lowest RPM

This joke is sort of 2013 in its punch, but it will probably always have some relevancy, relatively speaking ... Q: An Italian, a Spaniard, and a Greek go to a bar. Who picks up the tab? A: A German.

I sooooooo wanted to love the Continental. Correction. I love the concept! I would have found a way to trade-in the Acura for a Continental had it been like the concept. Now...well, Im keeping my Acura as I love that car to death, but, BELIEVE me when I say that the Fusion Sport COULD BE a replacement vehicle for me had I was trading in my Acura tomorrow. (That or the new Buick Regal GS. In my opinion, the Regal GS is the TRUE successor to the Acura TL SH-AWD, NOT the TLX that Acura is peddling now) Why do I view the Fusion Sport MORE than a Continental? I dont think the extra $$$ is worth it to buy the Lincoln. Either in MKZ form or in Continental form. Yes. Yes. The Continental blows the Fusion away in luxury, details and the like. I just dont deem the Continental worth that extra dough. If I spending that kind of $$$ on a sedan. Im skipping the Continental. Im going elsewhere. Cadillac, Buick, BMW, Mercedes, Audi... If I wanna stay with FoMoCo, and yes I dont have ANY dislike for FoMoCo, Im keeping the extra cash in price difference between a Fusion Sport and the Continental and maybe I go to Vegas and blow the difference there. Bet it all on black or something... Yes. the 1st generation Fusion and Milan were nice lookin' vehicles too. Aged quite well. There is a regular customer that comes to my restaurant who has a Fusion sport. Black. Good lookin' ride. 260 HP and 250 ft./lbs torque 3.5 liter V6. Naturally aspirated! I LOVE THAT! My Acura has got a 3.7liter V6 with 300 or so naturally aspirated horses and 270 ft./lbs... I love me some naturally aspirated V6s. Turbos and superchargers are cool and all. I prefer naturally aspirated. Looks something like this Great looks! The 2nd generation DOES have some issues. The GREAT thing is FoMoCo is ANSWERING and REPAIRING all problems. So...my wife's Fusion is basically FLAWLESS. No problems with it. The recalls get sent. The dealership repairs. There hasnt been ANY issues before the recall repairs. So we are all good! I applaud FoMoCo for stepping up to the plate. Its just that its costing them money!

To be sure, it would have been even more outstanding if Lincoln would have kept some of the elements you suggested. However, I was not disappointed in the least with my actual (if admittedly brief) direct experience with the car itself. I honestly wish I was in the financial position right now (like I was years ago when I owned a late 80's Signature Series Continental) because it would only be a quick decision between the Lincoln and the Volvo (which would probably fall to the Lincoln because of my personal history). And if they continue to improve the car (and I get my poop together) it will be in my driveway in the next couple of years. And I get that the Fusion is not without some quality issues. But they continue to improve that, and hopefully the new platform they are moving to will be even better for all the models they build off of it. I miss very much my first generation Milan. That was a great looking and completely reliable car. ('05 Premier)

But that speaks volumes, Drew.

If you were placing bets on who is more likely to get it right, would you bet on the 100+ year old company who has built suicide doors before or would you bet on the 15 year old company which still is using humans to manually drive the robots on their production line because they can't get them programmed correctly? THAT is all I'm sayin..

I know a pickup is a different animal, but Ford has been offering suicide doors on the Supercab pickups for decades. What the hell, besides a negative bias against Ford, would make anyone think they can't do it right on a luxury sedan? It isn't like it makes it a guarantee that Lincoln might not be able to do it, but good gracious the evidence is in their favor.

I don't follow it either until it gets down to the end. Don't have the desire to sit in front of the boob tube with a bunch of grunting beer drinking ex-frat types or "pick up truck alumni" (term I learned while living in the South) commenting on the goings-on for months prior to the slimming down of the schedule. I have a similar joke: Wanted into UVa for grad school and didn't get in, but got into U of I (IL). Either way, I ended up with the same school colors - blue and orange. The two schools couldn't be more different, though!

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What does everyone think about the 3rd version?

Between the 2, #1. Beyond that, I personally would've preferred something typographically more condensed & with tighter, better kerning (look at 'C-h' and 'a-r' between the 2 versions, for example). Most computer as-typed fonts have marginal kerning that needs manual tweaking. Also would've liked to have seen such in all caps, with 'we love' a few points smaller (or even in a different font). It's fighting a bit with being read continuously with the upper line; could use a visual 'separation'. EDIT :: I hate whatsoever to stomp on anybody's work/time spent, but in looking at these again today, I think both are... poor choices.

Drew's friend loves these. I wonder if he already knows about it.