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Scout is planning direct to customer sales as per Tesla. VW dealers are suing. Colorado passed a law allowing direct to consumer sales for EVs if there were no dealerships, but the Colorado Dealers are claiming the law won't cover Scout since 90% of orders are hybrid. Pop some more popcorn.

The "factory" is currently a bulldozed field. The State put up 100 mil in site preparation. Wetland mitigation went over-budget to around 150 mil, but other than that I don't think any actual construction has begun.

90% of pre-orders were for the series hybrid (range extender) version. VAG has had over a year of warning that their potential Scout customers have almost zero interest in the BEV version.

Lincoln is down to three vehicles. Navigator (Fancy Expy) Aviator (Fancy Exploder) Nautilus (imported from China - no direct Ford equivalent) It's on the C2 platform, so a stretched Escape? Corsair (Fancy Escape) is dead. What platform would you recommend, Mach-E?

Aviator is an Exploder. Navigator is an Expy. Bronco/Ranger/Everest framed vehicle would slot between.

Body on Frame Ranger platform could just as easily be an Everest based Lincoln.

Ford received a bad lot of valves (overheated during machining) for the 2.7 in 2021. Affected about 2 months of engine production. Never an issue with the 2.3

No an XL tire has a stiffer sidewall than SL. It's softer than the C rated factory tire.

Bonus: you teach a teenage girl to drive a stick shift and she doesn't want to date a boy who doesn't know how to. ;-) Cuts down on the riff-raff.

Taught all three on a manual. Bought a 2002 Nissan Frontier for that purpose. Told them they could drive whatever they wanted, but they were damn well going to learn on a stick. Two of them even took their driver's license test using a stick shift. One of them now prefers automatics. One...

We have essentially the same transmission as the Mustang. It can handle the Coyote, it can handle the V6. The problem with the V6 is the bell housing. It's integral and thus can't mate to the Getrag.

Had to drop the clutch and rev the engine on the 6 cylinder.

Yeah, and I think the premium forces you to get leather. Which is the absolute LAST thing I want in Arid-Zona.

Mazda3 is still available with the stick. Have to buy the hatchback though.

2022 Base. Still worth what I paid for it. Helps that Ford raised prices by 12 grand.

Simple rule - I buy the largest engine that comes with a manual. So, only option is the 2.3.

No stick, no interest. Period. Dot. End of Story. Nissan needs to put the manual back in the Frontier, and use the same power-train in the new xTerra.

24 in town, 22 on the freeway. Base, manual.

The parts squeeze that led to me getting a VIN in April, and a Bronco in October should be more or less a thing of the past.

VIN is basically assigned after the order is assigned a build date. Just being pulled for production doesn't generate the VIN. When builds got was behind in 2021 I think they even had to cancel and reissue VINs.