Posted on 03/29/2025 7:37:23 PM PDT by Red Badger
>> But instead of mechanical linkages, the system uses electronic signals to adjust the EV’s driving feedback based on how the driver moves the stick.
That’s pathetic.
Along the lines of fake motor sounds that Dodge has for their electric muscle cars.
What’s next? A recording of a roaring V8?...............
I was going to make the same comment.
Stupid.
I would really like to see a modernized version of the ‘65 Ford AC Shelby Cobra with the Guardsman blue and white stripes. Even a zippy crossover type like even a hatchback would be cool.
If Ford has some brains, they would put a manual in a F-250 Diesel and it would sell like crazy.
A long time ago, I had an ‘82 F-350 with a 4 speed manual. 460 V-8 and a 4:11 rear end. It would pull a lot of weight.
Send them the idea!...............
Totally stupid.
There’s nothing fun about all the engine and transmission problems I’ve had with my Fords. I will never buy another one.
“That’s pathetic”
Indeed.
I still have my 1982 Econoline with a m/t [last year] and a 1990 Suburban m/t [last year in the US].
I also have two 2005 VW Turbo Diesel m/ts and two 18/19 VW s/w m/t AWD turbo gas vehicles.
I hope that we all live a long life and I don’t have to buy another vehicle.
You doubt that Ford survives this move into the Gay World...this is hopeless.
“A long time ago, I had an ‘82 F-350 with a 4 speed manual. 460 V-8 and a 4:11 rear end. It would pull a lot of weight.”
The 460 may have been Ford’s best ever engine of yore.
I took my old Chevy (see my home page) to a wedding recently. Valet parking had only one person who could drive a stick.
Forget the "three on the tree"; Mitsubishi made column-shift 5-speed manual transmission diesel vehicles in the 1990s such as the "Delica Space Gear".
Here's an 8-minute video of YouTuber Eric Go showcasing his column-shift, 5-speed manual transmission, turbo diesel, 1994 Mitsubishi Delica.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycX7pvKRMos
Ford has ads on YouTube, a black lady trying to sell electric trucks .
WTH were they thinking ?
My dream is to buy myself a car around my age that has a *real* manual transmission. I hate these electronic transmissions nowadays; they are so erratic.
Ford should patent and corner the market for placing a baseball card hitting the spokes of the wheel
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