Drew Dowdell

Well the seats, as soon as sat in them, stood out as really good. They're very supportive and with great side bolstering. I haven't had a chance to really crawl around the interior, but it seems fairly standard initially. I plan to do a "luggage test" on this one. It's going to take some time to get used to the drive. It feels strange not having the gas motor kick in till you're over 47mph.... but you can putter around for a while in EV mode. The mpg indicator was 35mpg after my standard initial test loop. I drive all vehicles on the same loop as soon as I get them. It has two full acceleration runs, a highway run, and 50% city travel.

Don't care. Those buggie makers could have become Ford employees without relocating to Vietnam. Ford created a LOT more jobs than were destroyed at the buggie makers.... and those who were simple laborers for Ford probably made a LOT more (hey, whaddaya know, they can afford a Car now!) then they ever did as a buggie maker.

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Interactive Review: 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid For our first entry from the Ford media fleet, Ford decided to put one of it's best feet forward. They sent Motor Trend's car of the year in Light Ice Blue Metallic. So gear up your questions for our Interactive Review. 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid Photo Gallery

Haha! Really? Maybe I can pick up Henry Ford's old place. For all of his other baggage with minorities, one of the things Henry Ford understood was that his employees were also his customer. How do U.S. corporations expect to thrive if they outsource everything but the board of directors and some secretaries? If there are only boards of directors, a few service people, and all the factories are over seas, who is left to buy the products? 17% unemployed/underemployed. In a "consumer economy", how do you expect the economy to work when 17% can't ..well... consume? We like to make fun of Ross Perot, but he had a point about that "Giant Sucking Sound" during the NAFTA debates.

You just disconnected from the topic. The topic is that real wages for average Americans (not those in the top 1%) have stagnated or declined in the past 30 years. This has nothing to do with cell phones or internet. So... congrats, you now have more you can buy but less money to buy it with. For all of that... there's Mastercard.... so you can transfer even more of your diminishing wealth to the investor class.

If you include all American's in that average... sure we're much richer. Remove the top 400 wealthiest who's wealth has increase 1700% since 1970... and no, we're all actually poorer.

Are we? Or do we just feel relatively rich because we're in debt more than anyone else but choose to ignore it.

Yes. 10% official unemployement, closer to 17% actual unemployment/underemployment. 1 job for every 6 job seekers. Where did all the jobs go?

gummed up transmission fluid? edit: BTW, I'm going to move this to the tech questions section.

Thank you globalization. Folks, this is why crap is so much cheaper at Target/Walmart/Kohls.

+3 I want to like the new CTS... I really do... but it just isn't my '04. 1st gens still turn my head... current gens don't anymore

Silver XLR, Yellow Sky, Black Solstice........on my way to work. Only one GM roadster missing from that pack.

LOL I like how he almost loses it there in the middle.

breakfast

And the point of this study is.....? The whole drama surrounding this issue is not that you could possibly crash. The drama is because Toyota has known about the issue for a long time and opted to cover it up and ignore it rather than doing anything about it. If it were a bad batch of pedals made back in 2004 that Toyota subsequently redesigned to fix the issue, it would be forgivable.

Is that like a "Type-R" sticker for Dodges?