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    Default What will prematurely disappear simply due to cost?

    Steam to diesel. Rail to airlines. Props to jets. Cars. Interstates. Cruise ships. Manufacturing companies, products, brands.
    Big shifts, changes. Happening for a long time. Variety of reasons. Economics, speed. New ideas to lower costs for all.

    "NASCAR feels like it has to do something. Technology has evolved to such a point that the costs to participate far outweigh the benefits of doing so. It’s not a sustainable business model. Sure, some teams will take the savings from fabricators and suspension specialists and just reallocate those resources to computer (R&D and robotic car fab?) programming."

    Only cost effective to build huge high profit stick houses and big vehicles?
    What happened? When did it start? When did low tech be reclassified as not an option?
    How were small houses and cars done? With corded phones, typewriters, pencils and pens? 40 hour weeks?
    Ask the computer? It will say 'not my fault'. As a middleman I only do what they tell me to do, right or wrong.

    Gotten too expensive to race? They say "owners did it to themselves spending so much trying to win".
    Will NASCAR go to self driving race cars? Full size electric r/c slotless slot cars?
    Allowing in global manufacturers?
    Car noise soundtrack broadcast thru PA system?
    Going to all generic box cars? Hybrid in 2022?
    One hour pit stops at charging stations?
    Killing the traditional chassis for 2021. Independent type rear suspension.
    Eliminate the variation of race car design. Will the driver be next?
    Sticker graphics will be the only way to id brands on the track. No wind tunnels allowed.
    250,000.00 dollar soap box derby global cars and new rules. Throw out the old rule book.

    Every season, new rules and tech make the cars harder to control, resulting in more crashes. Same in real life?
    Over complicate everything, shrink anything that cannot be made huge.
    Anything undigitized or with low profit margins will not be tolerated.

    NASCAR owned and built cars, sponsored by auto companies, paying NASCAR to brand the generic cars with decals.
    The old audience continues to shrink. Like new car buyers? Race on Sunday, buy on Monday is no more.

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    Default Last Chevy Impala rolls off assembly line

    One of the nicest looking new cars built in recent years bites the dust.
    Another car/truck, that started to stand out with good looking styling, got the axe.
    Prob nameplate will be back like Camaro, Ranger, T-Bird, GTO, others were revived
    Electrics are being pushed on to the public 20 years too soon thanks to we know who. What else is new.
    Camaro rumored to be gone in 2023
    All the tech, big money, and hours spent creating current vehicles and power trains of only the last 5-10 years to be wasted trying to almost totally reinvent the car.
    Looks like will keep what i have even if i have to rebuild it out of wood or any manufactured parts that will work.
    I suppose aftermarket companies catalogs will drop most new car parts and either focus on the past or disappear as a company.
    Domestic internal combustion power train items especially.

    https://www.freep.com/story/money/ca...ck/4871778002/
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    Yep, nothing but bad news coming out of the auto industry. Meanwhile Ford stock continues to nosedive, and no one likes Hackett except for the people responsible for keeping him in his job.
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    Default National Mustang Day 2020

    Ford celebrates 56th anniversary of the Mustang today, a snowy April 2020 day in Detroit.

    The large Ford Rotunda building, in the background of one of the commercials ,was moved from the fair in Chicago to Dearborn.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Rotunda

    "The oft-cited ’64½ Mustang launch-year doesn’t exist. Legal model years are whole numbers.."
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMdKwCiacs4

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    Default Ford gets the 2020 spring cleaning broom out on top management


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    Default 2021 mustang alley ford performance area

    Lots of people were so focused on taking a cell pic of the red Ford GT they got smelly shoes
    from horse s..t, right in front of the Ford PR booth. 2021 emissions from the Mustangs on hot asphalt?
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    I'm surprised they splurged for the one. $100,000 car, probably a plastic hood... you'd hope, but it doesn't mean they'd do it.
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    So, I just got done watching a video about the new CT5-V Blackwing. VERY cool car. Kinds ugly, but still. When was the last time Ford attempted something like that? Have they EVER?! No... not really... at all. I would have been all over a rival for the Charger and SS too, but nope. The only thing that was close was the huge, heavy, FWD, no V8 havin' SHO and MKS/Continental. LAME. And now there are no CARS, let alone V8 sedans. They're all about making vehidles that are either trucks or electric. You want something else? You're lookin' in the wrong place! They just seem to run faster and faster away from anything I like. 5 years ago I would have NEVER considered another brand, but now... that CT5's lookin' pretty dang good. Or maybe a used CTS-V or SS...

    I read in the Car and Driver new car issue that they think they're going to win back all the hundreds of thousands of people they lost buying Fusions and small cars with the Maverick. You're hilarious, Ford. If I'd wanted a truck, I would've bought one already.
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    I'm still pissed that Mercury is gone. I have been a huge fan my entire life.
    79 Zephyr, 4.6L 4v/4r70w swap, with team z front and rear suspension, 8.8 and upgraded brakes and coil overs. Running Holley Terminator X Max.

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    Quote Originally Posted by massacre View Post
    I'm still pissed that Mercury is gone. I have been a huge fan my entire life.
    Yeah, that one stung too. Since they decided not to give it any unique products, or when they did, y' know... try to MARKET them, that's the way the winds were blowing. I had one of the last Mercury products, a Milan. It had a unique 2-tone interior and a MANUAL. It was a cool car for a blah grey sedan.

    The rumored Cougar version of the '05 Mustang would have been SOOOO cool! They could have made an Ecoboost, IRS modern touring coupe that could actually compete with the rest of the world! But, like so many other cool things Ford could have done..... NOPE. All we care about is trucks. Trucks, trucks, trucks.
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    Massacre and Zephyr and All,

    It took me awhile to begin to appreciate Mercury. My Dad bought a 64 Colony Park and it was a nice wagon but what did I know at 5 years old? I think management turns over and never learns or forgets the reasons for past business decisions. Mercury was supposed to be a step up from Ford but not as expensive as Lincoln. When you can get a Ford that’s dressed as good or better than a Mercury, what’s the point? Mercury Racing was a powerhouse in the day. Look up Al Turner. A self trained car builder that MR hired to boost it’s AF/X program in the late 50’s early 60’s. AF/X turned into Funny Car because of him. He figured out that the engine is basically an air pump and the more air you can stuff in it, the more power it makes. He worked with Crane Cams and developed cams that produced power that gave the Mopar Hemis headaches. The Ford engineers were quite jealous. He wouldn’t cough up his secrets to them. Mustang gets most of the attention but as it has been said, they are belly button cars. Everyone has one. I’ll be attracted to the rarer rolling works of art.
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    Not sure if anybody else has noticed but drive up ATM's are now reach way up to use if you do not drive a truck/SUV/minivan.
    I went to my Mom's bank that had new ATM's installed, I was in my 99 Mustang (stock height) and had a hard time reaching way up to put her card in the slot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by webestang View Post
    Not sure if anybody else has noticed but drive up ATM's are now reach way up to use if you do not drive a truck/SUV/minivan.
    I went to my Mom's bank that had new ATM's installed, I was in my 99 Mustang (stock height) and had a hard time reaching way up to put her card in the slot.
    Yep, I've definitely noticed that.
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    It is much easier to walk up to the bank atm than to do the door reach thing.
    Usually went inside for free coffee bonus and cute tellers when the lobbies were open.
    Picking up items in any drive thru is a hassle i avoid unless not busy.

    Big rims/low profile tires
    Laughed at NASCAR Daytona race. Winner tried to do burnout. Tires go flat, miss a shift, need to be towed.
    Throw away proven tech because it looks old. Just use old and rename as NASCAR Classic Series.


    Local TV news ran a report on springtime 2022 potholes and newer car rim/tire cost.
    The alum rims/low profile tires cant take a hit like rims of the past. Steel, forged alum like TRX.
    Big bucks for replacement. So many different rim styles. Limited supply of replacement rims.
    So many damaged, one tire shop has to loan out spare rims on hand until correct one is found.
    Of course this is more of a daily driver issue, but i bought twp spare GT turbines just in case.
    The Ranger had stock 14" alum. One or two pass rims did take a huge hit one day. No visible damage, lost no air.
    70 series profile sure helped. The city did not help with no street work barricade whatsoever.

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    Are recent global turf events an attempt to corner certain raw material element market for ion batteries, cats, and chips?
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    Default National Mustang Day today

    Happy Holiday to all.

    National Mustang Day is today April 17.
    57 going on, turning, 58 (start of 58th year).

    https://www.nationalmustangday.com/

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    Quote Originally Posted by gr79 View Post
    It is much easier to walk up to the bank atm than to do the door reach thing.
    Usually went inside for free coffee bonus and cute tellers when the lobbies were open.
    Picking up items in any drive thru is a hassle i avoid unless not busy.

    Big rims/low profile tires
    Laughed at NASCAR Daytona race. Winner tried to do burnout. Tires go flat, miss a shift, need to be towed.
    Throw away proven tech because it looks old. Just use old and rename as NASCAR Classic Series.


    Local TV news ran a report on springtime 2022 potholes and newer car rim/tire cost.
    The alum rims/low profile tires cant take a hit like rims of the past. Steel, forged alum like TRX.
    Big bucks for replacement. So many different rim styles. Limited supply of replacement rims.
    So many damaged, one tire shop has to loan out spare rims on hand until correct one is found.
    Of course this is more of a daily driver issue, but i bought twp spare GT turbines just in case.
    The Ranger had stock 14" alum. One or two pass rims did take a huge hit one day. No visible damage, lost no air.
    70 series profile sure helped. The city did not help with no street work barricade whatsoever.

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    Are recent global turf events an attempt to corner certain raw material element market for ion batteries, cats, and chips?
    Last week I was in the Detroit area for the first time. The roads there have some serious pothole issues. We landed on Monday in a snowstorm. Crazy I tell ya!

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    The auto companies test pre production vehicles on Metro Detroit roads.
    Torture test. No wonder rims got bigger. But low profile tires and cast alum rims are not off road tough.
    No wonder F-150 and the others sell so well.

    Eureka rd, south 'behind' Metro airport, is falling apart. Cheap stretch of concrete as usual.
    The north airport exit to I-94 is 'better'.
    We locals avoid bad roads when possible because they are known and make the tv news.
    Tire blowouts, suspension.
    Cross over to Windsor Ont. or Ohio, different story.

    The roads are slowly getting rebuilt. I-75 is the big one nowadays. Bridges, roadway.
    Gov Whitmer's winning campaign included "We need to fix the dam roads".
    And not with a piddly budget like in the past.
    Mich has winter. Freeze/thaw cycle. Winter, early spring is the worse.
    Snow. Then salt. Melts. Refreezes. Cold patches in holes.
    Problem is the highways are scraped to clear measurable snow.
    The plow blades rip out the patches. Cycle repeats.
    All the major freeways are getting rebuilt first. April to Nov only.
    Most roads have to wait their turn. Especially in the big cities.
    A lot of budget goes toward frills like cameras, sensors, etc.
    They implant sensors for automiss veh and who knows what else.
    "Michigan has the highest truck weight limits in North America, that can be utilized on a regular basis, with a limit of 164,000 lb gross weight limit".
    They pound up a bad road pretty good.
    Some hiways get repaired in sections end to end. When at the end, they start at the beginning again.
    Local roads get priority maintenance around malls, ritzy new mcsubs.
    Plus there are only several contractors in the area that can handle big projects.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gr79 View Post
    Eureka rd, south 'behind' Metro airport, is falling apart. Cheap stretch of concrete as usual.
    The north airport exit to I-94 is 'better'.
    That's the one thing I've wondered; why Michigan only uses Concrete on their roads, is it supposed to be better in the cold weather than Asphalt? I remember the 'click-click, click-click' on the highways there when we'd go on a family visit. Ah, Michigan
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    Default Better roads for the Mach E in Detroit

    Guess Ford plans to carry on the Mustang name when the car version is gone.

    Have watched several metro detroit freeways and major local roads being built and rebuilt, 60s sandbox days thru adulthood.
    Our 3 year old new suburban ranch house had to be moved from the path of new section of I-94 back in 1959.
    Dad was not happy having to have another similar ranch built then move again 5 or so miles north. New schools for us kids.
    Prob could have moved the house to another open lot nearby as others did but ma said no all the plaster would be cracked.
    Was a trip as a 2nd grader to see whole houses moved off basements and down the street to another basement.
    Our next door neighbor did not know we would be living across the street from them in the new neighborhood.
    Parents made sure they were not home during construction update inspections to keep it a surprise. Was a good one.

    The smell and noise of summertime. White concrete curing compound, screaming detroit diesels, dust.
    In the 80's huge mass excavators dug out the last segment of I-696 ditch in the 80's.
    Twin V-12 engined pretty sure were Koehring 1266D. First time i seen and knew of a twin engine excavator.
    Pic of them: http://forum.dhsdiecast.com/default....posts&t=127831
    https://www.mecum.com/lots/CJ0717-30...6-d-excavator/
    Seen them working for years on the way to work in the Mustang. Eventually the new xway connector saved commute time.
    Met an operator of one of the excavators in a bar one day. Said machine was retired to a gravel pit. I found it.

    Asphalt is used as an overlay on wore out roads to buy time. Is also used to pave gravel roads.
    Is more common to resurface with asphalt. Section of dirt road by my house was paved with asphalt/slag. Working out good.
    If the concrete and base is good under worn out asphalt repave, they will strip the asphalt and reuse it.
    Lots of gravel in Mich. Its up to MDOT for road material spec and testing.

    Concrete is used for new roads and rebuilds here too. Supposed to be good for 30 years. Ha.
    Few years ago the oldest stretch of 696 was rebuilt. New sections had to be to be ripped up and repaved due to faulty mix.
    I-275, nb sb just west of the airport, was first constructed 70's with no expansion strips as an experiment. Lasted 20 y.
    When it was rebuilt 1999-2000, expansion strips were installed, rather than the continuous pour.
    Then home owners along the freeway complained of road noise, even though they chose to live there.
    Something to do with the milled traction grooves running width-wise of the road.
    So millions more was spent to re-mill the brand new concrete with grooves running in the direction of traffic and noise walls.
    The milling caused many pieces of the expansion tar? strips to eventually rip out looked like thin recap truck tire debris.
    What a mess on a new interstate. Ok now. They do sort of cause the car to wiggle sometimes.
    Same companies reconstruct the runways at Metro. Basically Detroit has only two companies to bid on major road projects.

    A new direction?
    https://www.slagcement.org/casestudi...ive-i-275.aspx

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    Quote Originally Posted by gr79 View Post
    Guess Ford plans to carry on the Mustang name when the car version is gone.

    Have watched several metro detroit freeways and major local roads being built and rebuilt, 60s sandbox days thru adulthood.
    Our 3 year old new suburban ranch house had to be moved from the path of new section of I-94 back in 1959.
    Dad was not happy having to have another similar ranch built then move again 5 or so miles north. New schools for us kids.
    Prob could have moved the house to another open lot nearby as others did but ma said no all the plaster would be cracked.
    Was a trip as a 2nd grader to see whole houses moved off basements and down the street to another basement.
    Our next door neighbor did not know we would be living across the street from them in the new neighborhood.
    Parents made sure they were not home during construction update inspections to keep it a surprise. Was a good one.

    The smell and noise of summertime. White concrete curing compound, screaming detroit diesels, dust.
    In the 80's huge mass excavators dug out the last segment of I-696 ditch in the 80's.
    Twin V-12 engined pretty sure were Koehring 1266D. First time i seen and knew of a twin engine excavator.
    Pic of them: http://forum.dhsdiecast.com/default....posts&t=127831
    https://www.mecum.com/lots/CJ0717-30...6-d-excavator/
    Seen them working for years on the way to work in the Mustang. Eventually the new xway connector saved commute time.
    Met an operator of one of the excavators in a bar one day. Said machine was retired to a gravel pit. I found it.

    Asphalt is used as an overlay on wore out roads to buy time. Is also used to pave gravel roads.
    Is more common to resurface with asphalt. Section of dirt road by my house was paved with asphalt/slag. Working out good.
    If the concrete and base is good under worn out asphalt repave, they will strip the asphalt and reuse it.
    Lots of gravel in Mich. Its up to MDOT for road material spec and testing.

    Concrete is used for new roads and rebuilds here too. Supposed to be good for 30 years. Ha.
    Few years ago the oldest stretch of 696 was rebuilt. New sections had to be to be ripped up and repaved due to faulty mix.
    I-275, nb sb just west of the airport, was first constructed 70's with no expansion strips as an experiment. Lasted 20 y.
    When it was rebuilt 1999-2000, expansion strips were installed, rather than the continuous pour.
    Then home owners along the freeway complained of road noise, even though they chose to live there.
    Something to do with the milled traction grooves running width-wise of the road.
    So millions more was spent to re-mill the brand new concrete with grooves running in the direction of traffic and noise walls.
    The milling caused many pieces of the expansion tar? strips to eventually rip out looked like thin recap truck tire debris.
    What a mess on a new interstate. Ok now. They do sort of cause the car to wiggle sometimes.
    Same companies reconstruct the runways at Metro. Basically Detroit has only two companies to bid on major road projects.

    A new direction?
    https://www.slagcement.org/casestudi...ive-i-275.aspx
    Where's our boy XTACY from NZ? gr, you could give him a run for his money with your 'breadth' of knowledge!
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    Gosh i cant compete with X tech knowledge wise. Usually deep but worth a read when time allows. Where is he?
    There are times i go back and prune. The who really cares or personal stuff. Fear is repeating oneself like old people do.
    Eh need stuff to read here on lean post days. Story telling. wonder how many really read the stuff. The oh no not him again...
    On and on and on like one of the star trek ng party characters who could not stop boring people with rambling talk
    Good way to keep people away from you at work or unintentionally kill threads.
    Would hate it when someone would sit next to me at the bar and yack unless it was car talk or something.
    Lots of older people cant hear well and they have to dominate a conversation to hide the fact. Guess i am there.

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    The fact that the Volt is discontinued and old has nothing to do with it. People are going to run into this. Technology changes quickly and anyone buying a current model could just as easily run into the same thing ten years down the road. Whether the nameplate is still around or not! My dad was just telling me he's getting frustrated shopping for cars because he can't find much that ISN'T a hybrid or something along those lines. Pretty much, these cars can be leased, and then it's pretty much time to throw them away. It's super wasteful. Where-as those same people could be driving small cars with simple internal combustion engines and keep them forever without a problem and get about the same or better mileage as your stupid giant, heavy, complex crossover hybrid. Nope. No one wants that, apparently. And then they wonder why new vehicle sales are WAY down. Ugh.
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    The Volt was a nice overall car. Had small engine and battery. Best of both worlds. Of course it gets axed.
    Drove a Bolt once. Weird. The gauges are all different and like most all programming not that easy to learn.

    Bright screens are fine but get tiring to watch all the time at that level.
    The more complicated the item, the more time and money is required to keep everything in sync.

    Charging and battery charge state of an electric road vehicle are major drawbacks along with cost of ownership.
    Prob cause a major hazmet situation if in a serious accident, as will automated driving.

    Large factories have automated parts shuttles that follow wire embedded into floors. They are real slow movers.
    Similar tech is a narrow isle auto tracking assist, steers a driver operated warehouse order picker in a rack isle.
    Auto steering system equipment, for one, can work great in one app but suck in another app.

    Expensive personal travel from A to B no matter what is being done or promoted to cover that issue.
    Govt and company marketing pushing to recover huge investment in a possibly bad and very premature tech.
    Electric car was tried 100 years ago and was abandoned.

    What good is a slim boxy slippery breakable cell phone if you cannot hear it most of the time?
    Or flat screen TVs with tiny built in 'speakers'.
    Clear audio used to be a great part of both. They got slimmed down and almost out.

    Electric cars will never last as long as internal comb types. How 'green' is that? Red flags not seen or ignored?
    When sea levels rise and floods predicted, should they be half boat? Where are the Jetson cars?
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