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I for one like the clean and simple design of the Texas black and white plates. Some states have some real overdone plates. The new New York state plates suck IMO. The standard plates that is. That's why I get the veterans plates. I don't get special lettering though.

Not Mine. 2012 SE hatchback with Sport Option. One of the most trouble free cars I've owned. Good power with great fuel economy. Did many a state to state road trip with it. Comfortable highway car with plenty of passing power. I would have bought a Mk4 Focus if Ford didn't kill it for the US...

EV's for everyone are a fantasy. No way no how can they make enough batteries for every current car to be an EV. Just making EV's is damaging to the environment because of all the strip mining for the materials needed to make batteries. Plus when the demand for those materials increase, the...

I grabbed one last fall and all the hardware. Been sitting in a box, maybe I'll finally get around to installing it. At the time I probably paid too much for it, but now that you can't get them .......... :cool:

Ok thanks for all the replies. Wasn't expecting so many. Guess it is something to get used to. The biggest issue with SM to me is when coming up to a stop and the way it seems to hold the revs too high. I've been experiencing a vibration at lower RPM's that others have had and is discussed in...

So I have had my 2.0L ecoboost AWD Maverick for almost 6 months now and in that time I've kept it in normal mode. Just for kicks recently I put it into Sport mode. Ugghh. To me it is very much unusable to the point I am wondering if something is wrong with either the programming or the...

Many of the older cars didn't have any insulation under the hood. They did have more reinforcement though. 1972 Ford F100

My 2012 Focus hatchback was no slouch even with the base engine. I had the DCT so 0-60 mph in 7.6 secs vs the manual's 7.3 secs. At highway speeds it had plenty of passing power. I could pass cars up steep mountainous hills no problem. Sure the "regular" Focus had 160 hp, but it weighed like...

How much you willing to pay? :oops: https://www.detroitwheelandtire.com/catalog/category/view/s/maverick/id/74185/

I can only think it's a software problem as the transmission doesn't act rough all the time. Makes the ride feel like crap when it misbehaves though.

I just took my Maverick in yesterday. I had been feeling like a roughness at below 2000 RPM's. Felt like a manual car where you are riding the clutch is the best way to describe it. Of course like a dog that's know's it's going to the vet and starts to behave, it stopped doing it about 3 days...

I have the Tufskinz on my Maverick (plain, no mountains graphics). They are a good thickness. Got them off Etsy for $10 cheaper than the Tufskinz website...

That doesn't make sense. why would ethanol free be for off-road use only? I was using non-ethanol gas in my Escape becuase a local gas station still sold it on 2 of thier pumps and was priced the same as thier 93 octane 10% gas. But after the whole Covid thing, the Non-ethanol has shot up in...

The problem with having all black wheels is that it makes your tires look grey by comparison unless you keep them constantly shined up with a coating. Also black wheels are hard to keep clean. They show up brake dust. I used to have black 17" wheels on my Focus, but they had a silver edge and...

The US Postal trucks have the same 2.5l engine (Iron duke) that they were putting in the Chevy Citations, lol. But where the Citation 2.5L put out 90hp, the mail trucks have the "improved" 2.5L with the hp bumped up to a whopping 110hp. My uncle had a 1980 Chevy Citation. I remember it had the...

Perhaps I can simplify. Yes there has been a misconception over the years that higher octane equals more power which is simply not true. A higher octane in simple terms is less prone to pre-detonation. You want the gasoline to ignite when the engine piston is at TDC (Top Dead Center) in the...

Agree. But I do agree it's kind of odd that they compared it to an old Corvette. 4.5 secs 0-60 isn't Tesla fast but it is still quite respectable and enough to trash something like a $69k Porsche Cayenne in a 0-60 sprint and 1/4 mile.

I agree. 100% gas is better than the 10% ethanol. Better gas mileage too. When I took a 12 hour road trip to Chicago I was getting 1 mpg better using 90 octane pure gas vs. 93 octane 10% ethanol blend. Non-ethanol used to cost the same as 93 10%, but early this year non-ethanol jumped up in my...

An XLT ecoboost with AWD will do 0-60 mph in 6.4 secs without the 4k tow pkg. With 4k tow pkg it will do 5.9 secs. So yes, it is quicker than a stock Fiesta ST 0-60 mph. Top speed however is lower at 110 mph because of an electronic limiter.

Greetings! I spent 18 months in Fulda in the 11th ACR back in the mid 80's when I was in the Army. Loved it over there. Beautiful country. Was very clean. Been wanting to re-visit.