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| Ford Fusion Hybrid wins; ...car of the year | |
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| The 89th Key | Jan 12 2010, 08:57 AM Post #1 |
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I bought a 2008 Ford Fusion and love it! Glad to see it's hybrid brother is winning top awards...could be my next car in a couple years if it keeps up such a good reputation. http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1677905.html (Side story: US News and World Report Rankings - #1 ) ![]()
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| ivorythumper | Jan 12 2010, 09:00 AM Post #2 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Ford is the come back kd. We love our Escape hybrid. |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| Red Rice | Jan 12 2010, 09:02 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Alan Mulally is doing a great job. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Kincaid | Jan 12 2010, 09:05 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I love the car - too bad the rear seat doesn't fold down. I'd love a wagon version if they could flatten out the battery and keep most of the space. Surprisingly, the Escape gets pretty close mpg even though it's a flying brick in comparison. I have to say that Ford has amazed me. First, they had a string of hits and ushered in the jelly-bean aero car shape. T-Bird, Taurus and on and on. Not to mention always being on top with the F-150. Then suddenly they hit this dry spell. I thought they'd never come back, but they made some shrewd financial moves (selling off car brands and keeping financially liquid, avoiding TARP funds) and now are introducing great vehicles again. GM should be so lucky. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| John Galt | Jan 12 2010, 09:12 AM Post #5 |
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Fulla-Carp
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I've heard it said that Ford was the company of engineers and GM was the company of accountants. I think the old adage has been proven to be true. Of course, we had a total lemon with a Windstar. A friend who was working with Ford (they were his customers) at the time told us if he'd known we were considering one, he would have warned us away based on what the Ford engineers working on it told him. Ya win some, ya lose some. I would consider Ford again based on what I've seen of late. |
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A friend who was working with Ford (they were his customers) at the time told us if he'd known we were considering one, he would have warned us away based on what the Ford engineers working on it told him.
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