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Happy 4th of July Weekend Everyone!!!

Two things: You keep saying that like it means anything yet at least one of those “fancy Fords”, competes very well against Benz (Navigator) and another (Aviator) isn’t a slouch against them either but you wouldn’t acknowledge that anyway. And this wasn’t about Lincoln in the first place. It was about Genesis being preferred over the likes of your precious Mercedes Benz. Your constant need to deflect from anything negative about them is obvious and quite frankly, old. Point being, you have been burned for your rather pathetic stance on Cadillac and Lincoln and their platform sharing so unless you just like visiting the burn unit, maybe you should argue on merits instead of fanboy snobbery. Your owning a now 14 year Benz does nothing to help you here.

I mention McDonald's a lot. yeah, I eat there from time to time even though I own a fast food joint of my own. Hey...a Big Mac is a Big Mac and a Quarter Pounder with cheese is a Quarter Pounder with cheese... I will ALWAYS love those even though I can make my own at MY restaurant. Like I said.... a Big Mac is a Big Mac and a Quarter Pounder with cheese is a Quarter Pounder with cheese. I dont drink sodey pops. At my restaurant or at any other restaurant. Ill have a milkshake from time to time but a bottled drink like water or juice is what I have. Not from a fountain for a cup and lid. From a bottle that has a cap. So I could manage without a cupholder. When I leave the restaurant to come home, I wont eat as Im usually coming home to supper with the family. I used to eat a hotdog or two when finished work, but those never lasted long enough to make it to the car. LOL I dont eat hotdogs anymore. (all that much) Ive cut down considerably. I am closing in on 50...

Random thoughts related to recent posts.. Had my first $100 fillup this week...yay. Usually have 2-3 $80-90 fillups most weeks lately. Those Ford door keypads are neat..several of my folks '80s-90s Fords and Lincolns had them. None of my 80s Fords had them, though. I could see them very useful for when I go to the beach..I always have to make sure to take out my keys and put them in my beach chair pocket before going in the water.. As far as cupholders, everything I've had made since '00 has had cupholders, and I've used aftermarket ones in older vehicles. I never leave home without bottled water, so a cupholder is essential...and for coffee in the morning.

How is that any different than the Pickup Failure Benz did of just Badge Engineering the Navero built by Nissan? Mercedes has their FWD appliance autos to compete against so many basic entry-level autos, badged autos by others and the list is long for their failures as much as their wins. You also are showing your ignorance as while Genesis does not sell their Ubber 6 figure luxury auto's here, they do in the asian rim and have plans as an EV to sell them Globally. I know others have posted about this and I know I have posted in the past. Just like Mercedes makes and sells select autos in the US, same with every other auto company. G90 Long Wheelbase is their competitor to the S-Class and offers just as much customization and can go well beyond $150,000 dollars depending on how the 1% crowd chooses to customize it. Genesis G90 Design | GENESIS Here is a basic config I did of things I liked and it came out to $140,563 US dollars.

Update on the Canyon. Still going strong. No real issues to speak of. I thought I had an annoying rattle on the rear sliding window pop up but it turned out the gaskets on the tri-fold tonneau cover compressed enough over time to allow it to shift slightly and one of the plastic clips was tapping on the back window. That was a 5 minute fix to loosen it up, reposition it and re-tighten. Fuel economy was pretty abysmal over the winter. To the point where I wonder if a V8 full size would have done any worse. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I am still working from home so with no commute, most of my trips are short and the engine barely had time to get warm. Still, I think I had one tank come in at 14.9 mpg. That was a bit of an outlier and most were in the high 15's or low 16's. Now that it is warm, it is generally averaging low to mid 17's and any longer trips I have taken with it have been more in the 21-22 mpg range. It still annoys the crap out of me that a Denali does not have a Homelink garage door opener built in. I also continued to be annoyed by actually having to get the keys out of my pocket to unlock the doors and start it. I know that may sound ridiculous but once you have a number of cars in a row that have passive entry and push button start, its annoying to live with out. Call me spoiled. haha I do wonder if I would have been better off with a full size truck. What appealed to me most about the Canyon (its size) is also my biggest problem with it. The front seats are fine but my long legged son is not too comfortable in the back seat. We also have a dog we take with us on our camping trips and it doesn't work very well for her. She's a bit of a nervous traveler so the floor is the best spot for her but there is no room there in the truck so she has to sit on someone's lap. That said, while those areas would be better in a full size, I know my wife would hate parking one. I also know since it stays parked in the driveway, I would have had to make my driveway a little wider to make it easier to get the other vehicles in and out of the garage and while I would have liked the interior room in the full size much better, the Canyon overall just fits us better.

Wow. It's been a year since I have updated this. We still have the van and it is still going strong. No real issues since the last update. The suspension creaking is back but you only hear it at low speeds so not that big of a deal. The only other issue is that the start/stop battery needs replaced again. It hasn't actually died like last time but it almost never has enough charge to work. I'd guess for a lot of you this would be ideal but I am one of the few oddballs that actually likes stop/start. It feels so wasteful to me to sit at a light with the engine still running. I'll likely wind up spending the $100 for a new one soon and yes, I know I will never get my money back from the gas I save, even at current gas prices ? Anyway, it is up to 44k miles now. The wife and I still both work from home so it went from having 32k miles put on it in the first 22 months of ownership to having only 12k miles put on it in the next 26 months of ownership. That includes another trip to Florida we did back in March. I did have to buy a new set of tires. I went with Firestone Destination LE3 tires and they are working out pretty well. They are quiet and smooth riding tires but have a little less wet traction than I was hoping based on the reviews. Still not bad, though. That's about it really. I did pull the camper with it again (200 mile round trip) a month or so ago even though I have a Canyon now. The Canyon was busy at the time. The trans temp is always steady and the brakes are more than adequate to stop our 2000 lb pop up. The thought is we will likely keep this another year. Its a bit tricky because we would like to take advantage of the ridiculous used car market, especially since it will show two accidents on a Carfax but at the same time what is the difference if we wind up just spending that extra money and then some on a new vehicle with no real discounts.

The Aviator CUV is rear wheel drive and that is a dumb argument anyway given the FWD appliances in the Benz stable.

2022 Q2 sales volume came out today, GM down 15%, Honda down 50%, Toyota down 22%, Stellantis down 15%, Hyundai-Kia down 19%, BMW down 20%, Nissan down 39%, Mazda down 42% Subaru down 18%. Ford was up 5%, VW group up 2% so those 2 are treading water, the rest are tanking. Tesla is expected to be up 53% GM has sold 20,253 EV's in 2022, Tesla is at 228,700 estimated (final numbers not out). Tesla is rolling right now, at even half their current growth rate they will be at 1.1 million units a year in the USA in 2026, 2.7 million units in 2030. I am not saying it will happen, but look at the beating the other guys are taking. And how long will it take for the legacy OEMs to not have 1 EV in the product line, but 5 or 6 all of which are built in volume and in stock on dealer lots. Probably the only way the other guys can beat Tesla is to #1 undercut the price, and #2 have rows of EV's sitting on dealer lots, because with a Tesla you are still ordering online and waiting 6 months to get it. My local Mercedes dealer has 82 cars in stock, but 51 are GLC's and zero are EQS. If a car company can put 50 EV's on the lot, that is how you beat Tesla.

Absolutlely!!! I trolled many Ford fans over at MT forums about it being stupid, but I was trolling them. I use it in the summer a lot. During baseball and softball practices and games. I dont feel like carrying my keys and wallet with me so I leave those in the car. (The Fusion duh...we will use the Fusion over the Acura in these situations as much as possible. Almost ever time.) Lock it up...but use the keypad to get into the car. The personal items are kept out of site so nobody will break into the car... I will also use it when we go at an amusement park or a waterslide park. Why have a risk of loss at the park (baseball or amusement park), and its high, when a break-in risk is soooooooo much lower in a parking lot park... Its an awesome feature. Maybe when my kids are no longer at the age of us going to such parks my use of it will diminish. But as of now, as still a family man, its almost a need!!!

yes, we as so called enthusiasts dont care for mundane shytty things like a frunk. OR a cup holder. Im closing in on being 50 and I still dont give a shyte about a cup holder. Oh....I APPRECIATE a cup holder as many a time it came handy. But I dont drink in my car. I eat from time to time but I dont hang out at the drive throughs all that much. I also had a 1985 Oldsmobile Delta 88 in my mid to late 20s when drinking Gatorade was a thing to do, or a Coke from Mickey D's was a must, but I managed then and so I can manage now. But a cup holder DOES have a place in our lives. As does a frunk. When one will use a frunk for the very first time, one will want one. TRUST ME!!! Like Ford's keypad entry system. I had one in the 2007 Edge I bought my wife. We didnt have one a for a short time, but then came the Fusion and now Im thinking, I need one on my next car purchase... NO!!! I dont want to carry my phone with me.... If I didnt mind carrying a phone, I wouldn't mind carrying key. I have found the keypad VERY useful and almost a need. Yeah, Im thinking about a Ford Mach-E for myself for my next purchase. For ME. 1. Its a MUSTANG 2. Its an EV 3. Its GOT a keypad... 4. We ignore the fact that its a CUV because its a MUSTANG. And NOT only in name. It handles like a sports car. Its sporty like a sports car. Its fast like a sports car. But take a look at number 3. Its got that keypad. Plus a frunk that I could use for the restaurant.

Sure, Genesis has more prestige than Mercedes. They don't make a single model over $100k. They make a nice little effort, at least, they went rear drive rather than just badge jobbing a Hyundai and making front drive crossovers like Lincoln does. But Genesis is basically what Infiniti was 15 years ago, with the G35, M35, Q56, and the FX45 crossover that were all rear drive, performance oriented, nicer than a Nissan ,but not as nice as a German car, but cheaper than a German car. Infiniti fumbled that strategy, because Nissan as a company has no direction, but basically Genesis is Infiniti of 15 years ago.

Todays Escalade Fill up, glad I just do it every other week.