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[ww2planes1]

i have no idea how long since I last updated, but this has been brought on by several things.

This needs to be shared.   For the first time since 1991, the best selling vehicle is no longer the Ford F-series pickup.  (Yes you read that right, for the past 17 years, the best selling car in every single month has been the ford F-Series.    This May,

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[anonymous]

That F-series fact made my jaw drop. But its downfall, finally! Hooray!

Link-hopping got me to : http://green.yahoo.com/blog/ecogeek/539/ecogeeks-get-all-the-girls.html

Yay happy :)

[smashingpopcorn]

er, this should've been logged in as me, sorry. The power went out in this afternoon's storm and apparently my cookie was lost to the ether.

[ww2planes1]

my car gets 33MPG and I've got the graphs to prove it... doesn't that make me the ultimate ecogeek? so why don't I have all (or any) of the girls?

somehow I doubt being an ecogeek is all there is to it. Nice article though :)

As for the F-series thing, I think it primarily has to do with the fact that it's the number one contractor truck out there. Whenever a construction company goes to buy a fleet vehicle it more than likely gets a ford F-series.

also, the F-series runs from the F-150 on up to the F-650 (or higher?) which is used for box trucks. So it's not necessarily surprising that it's been so popular.

[daedalus_t]

My dad had a clutch in his 1991 Ford Escort GT that probably would've lasted that long... I guess it was around 205K miles that it started jumping a lot so he took it in, and it turned out some line was leaking and dropping fluid on the clutch pad, but they decided since they were already in there they'd replace the clutch anyway.

[ww2planes1]

I think it probably has a lot to do with how the miles are put on. My dad used the car before me to commute to DC, and it ended up that he'd get up to 5th gear and then go 40 miles with only a handful of shifts, rather than getting stuck in continual stop and go traffic.

It probably doesn't hurt that the engine's pretty small too :)

[garden_goth]

I don't know the exact things, but my dad does aerospace (mostly space and satellite as far as I know) work with Mantech in Chantilly. It's an idea.