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I enjoy driving my Mustang, if I squint it's like I'm 20-25 again...but it rides rough on Ohio's bumpy roads and is rather loud..and feels so tiny in today's traffic. The Caddy is fast, serene, smooth. Definitely my road trip car.

Random GTO picture...

I would look at the weight differences there too. I know they're the same platform, but I would assume the MKC weighs a good bit more.

Boeing is having issues again. In general, I see a slimmer product line for the near future: 777X (recent issues on the news) overtaking the 777-300 787 variant(s) 767 (born circa 1982) only for freight to continue 737 variant(s) - - - - Every now and then, I think of what the future Boeing 797 could be.

Heh-heh...I'm enjoying my Old Man Cadillac...getting close to 30mpg highway w/ my 3.6 CT6...I enjoy driving it more than my 5.0 Mustang.

Clarification: this would be for only steady highway driving that wasn't very taxing. And corresponds with the 21/34 EPA sticker.

I still don't see anything for it. I did a search and only came up with old articles. Is this officially an EV site?!

Let's try this one more time, as I indeed am an idiot. I meant the baby Bronco. Been seeing them around and really, really like them. But would probably buy a Maverick instead because of the 4 cylinder. Brian's other Ford powered toy... The T Bird on the left is badass. I miss watching these run is NASCAR. Last pic of Brian's car. I had an uncanny urge to post demo derby pics, and then an uncanny urge to post pics of Brian's Mustang...

Oh, sorry! The 2.3T is the base engine (can be had with a manual trans), the 2.7t is the optional engine and the 3.0T is the Raptor engine.

For an MKC? Nah, it was available on 3 of the 4 trims, if I remember correctly. I don't believe it was available on the Select but it was available on the Reserve, Premier & Black Label.

Don't you have to buy the top trim level to get it though? Like the Bronco but would want a 4 cylinder. No complaints on 25 out of the Ranger. It has proven to be an excellent vehicle. All cars I would actually love to own. Love both but would really like to own a car like that Caddy for road trips.

Yeah, that's what the Maverick Lobo should have gotten, too. it just isn't a very efficient engine for the class of vehicles that are supposed to be efficient. I assume that's why it never really got spread around more. My MKC is only related at 18/26 compared to a new Escape 2.0's 23/31. I know it's more powerful, but those are pretty significate fuel efficiency numbers.

I don't mind the heat pump being optional at the low end of the trim range. For my parents, a heat pump is entirely unneeded, so there is no point in making people pay for it who don't need it. The EV9 gets that 258 lb-ft of torque at zero RPM. The Telluride doesn't get to 262 lb-ft until 5,200 rpm, which, while a decent RPM for a DOHC V6, is still a higher RPM than is typically used in everyday traffic driving. Horsepower numbers are nearly pointless for EVs, and the sooner we can drop them as a point of comparison, the better.

A Bronco Sport with the 2.3T would probably only be sold as a Bronco Sport Raptor..... which could be fun, but expect to pay Raptor prices.

My Lincoln MKC is the smallest SUV Ford/Lincoln put the 2.3T in. The Bronco Sport with the 2.0T is probably perfectly fine and doesn't really need the 2.3 the Ranger has. The Ranger is bigger and heavier and needs the extra hp/tq to achieve the same results.

The colonnades are interesting... I really like the '80s G-bodies, along w/ the B/C/D/E bodies of that era...would love to find a clean '80-84 Electra Park Avenue or '80-89 Caddy Fleetwood Brougham d'Elegance as another weekend car..or an Eldorado Biarritz convertible.

That's funny. He and I were not on the same page with the ensuing Olds et. al. colonnade era and its '81+ refresh until the curtain fell. Granted, Intrigues and other later GM, like the 2013 or 14 Impala refresh, were far more updated and relevant motoring experiences, but nothing moved me emotionally quite the way the colonnades did. (What I'd give to find an immaculate '76 Regal S/R coupe and swap in an "even firing" Buick 231 V6 that is out of the crate and configured to hook up to RWD. I wouldn't have the patience.)

I remember working at Jeppesen (Boeing subsidiary) in 2007-2008 and going to a couple all-hands meetings that had briefings on the 787 development and delays... fascinating space to work in. I was working on software integrations w/ FAA data feeds on updates to routing/charting software.

It's not Old Man at all. It's 50 is the new 30. Cadillac took their age distribution downward with their strategies and designs. Never would I have expected Escalades to have spinners on them and be driven by gang bangers. (But that's the far end of the distribution that one may not even want to think about ... hard pass.) I appreciate Mustangs. But I know I'd much rather be behind the wheel of a CT6 on the regular. Thinking "can they make me one for me with cloth seats?" Or, as Oldsmobile would have put it, "Can we build one for you?"

Lastly, this is gorgeous.

I like this cover... I feel the same way about the smaller Bronco Ford sells. Most of them come with the three cylinder. I would consider it if it came with the same 4 the Ranger comes with.

I usually get close to highway. Running at around 25 overall on the Ranger, it is rated at 26 highway. The fabrication work here is unreal.

Just enough of an automotivve geek myself to find this fascinating... Since balthazar has returned to the crypt he emerged from when Oldsmobile was founded, it is my duty to bring vintage content here. 56 Chevy is cool, bonus MOPAR content.

Kind of hard to Take Thiel seriously when he wants to reverse the 19th amendment and deny women the right to vote. One where we are all aging, and driving cars old men like to drive. It will become the GM W body forum in about two years. Dfelt will change a W body to an EV. about as far as it will get. But there is a new anti aging medication that might actually work, more on that to follow. Why I want to be young again.....! Anti aging pill seems to show promise... More 4 speed goodness, including Grumpy Jenkins, a bit of modern action, and some <opar Mayhem

I always think the same whenever I'm put behind the wheel of a Malibu. I also quickly multiply the liters by 60 (cu. in.). Turbo or not, I want more than 90 cubic inches in the engine. My frame of reference is that a 2004 Impala with a 3.4 N.A. V6 got 34 mpg across various rental experiences. That said, they can still add the turbocharger for power (and sophistication), but I'd want some more displacement to validate making that substantial investment in new wheels.

I like this one. (Balthazar would instantly know the MY.) This one takes the cake. Classic!

Sparkasse is a type of bank. It literally translates to Savings Bank. Hamburger is because you were in Hamburg. There are Sparkassen in most (all?) major cities. All Sparkassen are part of a national network of regional government-controlled banks, though they operate independently of each other. It's almost like all of the "First National Bank of (City name)" banks we have here, except for the government involvement. The regional governments do not own the banks, but they do oversee how the banks are run. You can't go into a Hamburger Sparkasse and withdraw from your Frankfurter Sparkasse account, for example. However, they all share the same visual branding with the red logo. They are considered very conservative and safe, unlike Deutchebank, which is known to loan a certain U.S. politician significant amounts of money without appropriate collateral. I find the language very easy to learn. I used to follow Nate Silver closely, but he has since sold out to Peter Theil, so I no longer consider him reliable, even when he's suggesting an outcome I favor.

I know a Greek guy in New York and he was just telling me that he used to take Olympic Airways to and from Greece. He said that it was Aristotle Onassis's airline ... I didn't know that. He told me they had a 747 named Olympus and another one named Zeus. Olympic never put out much of a reach to North America ... just NY and Toronto, I believe. They bankrupted sometime post-9/11. Now, Greece only has much smaller Aegean, but they stick mostly to Europe, the Middle East, etc. Here's one of their 747s approaching Athens Airport next to the sea at Ellinikon. In looking up this airline and jet, they had a write-up on Olympic Airways Flight 411 which was using the 747 Zeus in 1978, so this was a fairly new unit. Fairly shocking for a veteran crew - 418 people on board - close call ...