Posted on 10/13/2021 2:37:58 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
I have to hand it to Ford: This is a genuinely new and unprecedented use of taillights
...A lone figure, an older woman, rose up from the pile of broken chairs and shattered taillight lenses. “New F-150 taillights do something no taillight has ever done before!”
Here’s what those lights are indicating: weight. Yes, weight. Ford has a system they introduced earlier this year called Onboard Scales. It weighs how much is being loaded into the truck and then displays that as a little four-part graph in the taillights, based on the truck’s payload capacity, so you can see easily how much more you can load, right there by the back of the truck. No outside scales necessary.
Smart taillamps operate like the battery charge indicator on a mobile phone, displaying the percentage of payload capacity by illuminating LEDs arranged in a built-in vertical bar. As the truck is loaded, all four lights illuminate,
(Excerpt) Read more at jalopnik.com ...
The naturally aspirated Shelby 150 is about 15k less.
“Just build me a basic truck, don’t need lcd screens, don’t need cameras, don’t need power windows, don’t need heated seats or surround sound etc and barely need AC”
A Dodge Ram Tradesman fits that description and at the end of the season will sell for around 10K less than the typical competing family pickups.
I watched a review for the new corvette where they spent half the review talking about the touch screens.
Nevermind...
A friend of mine told one of his friends that he wanted a truckload of horse manure for his yard. His buddy owned a stable.
My buddy was shocked to drive up to his house to find, not one, but two dump truck loads of horse poop steaming in his driveway. He just wanted a pick up bed full, but his friend measured, “truck loads” differently. He was giving $#!T to anyone who would take some for over a year.
+ dealer prep, taxes and registration!
The sticker does matter these days. Only the monthly payment matters to the uneducated morons. When that gets too high they just increase the loan from 10 years to 15 years. Problem solved.
Drive it for a few years then call the bank and say, "Take it back! It is in my driveway."
"But there will be consequences." says the loan officer. " "Consequences? What are those? Never heard of them."
—” “greater complexity = gonna break more and be more expensive to fix”. Sometimes it’s worth it
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is a difference between need and want.
And in this case what the EPA/NTSC/CARB... DEMAND.
—”I admit I’m partial to the high tech dashboards of some luxury and other cars from the late 1970’s and 1980’s such as the 1980 Lincoln Continental Mark VI...”
A guy I worked with had a brand new Lincoln (1980’s?)
We would hike out to the parking lot just to see his digital dash!
After a month the dash went dark, covered under warranty, the replacement cost was about a third the cost of the car.
He showed us all the receipts.
And quickly sold the car.
Certain dealers — especially Ford — install those on every new vehicle and try to charge you for it. I refused to pay, told them to take it out, but they said it was too much trouble so I’m stuck with it. Dealer said it involved both a hardware component and ECU programming (might or might not be true).
—” not one, but two dump truck loads of horse poop steaming in his driveway. “
Be careful what you ask for, you may get it.
Lane Bryant dress maker, call your office.
—” Only the monthly payment matters to the uneducated morons. “
At work, there were occasional rumors about fools cashing in their 401k to purchase a car/truck.
The penalties are crushing.
That was when I first heard about the KING RANCH truck.
Insanity and beyond.
YOW!
If I am spending six figures on something that says “Shelby” on it, it should also say “Cobra.”
L10 = (C ⁄ P)p
Yup... just like that.
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Got it... thanks.
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