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<blockquote data-quote="Bill Koonce" data-source="post: 950449" data-attributes="member: 68938"><p>Several years ago I was paging through a book that listed the vital statistics of various cars over the years. I was born back when cars had X frames, were made of steel and glass (and little else), and weighed between 2500 and 6000 lbs. I came of age when Detroit and everybody else replaced most of the steel with plastic "to save weight". But the book I read showed that cars had actually gotten heavier, not lighter! WTF?!?!?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The only answer that I could find was that any weight savings went right back into the car in the form of luxury and safety items. To put it bluntly, we screwed the pooch when it came to CAFE goals by making power <em>everything</em> and nanny-state "save us from ourselves" features mandatory. Even worse we abandoned sensible vehicles for way-too-small, and then way-too-big. Seriously, WTF were we thinking???</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Sport Trac has gone the way of the Ranchero; gone for good. No doubt some day Ford will come up with something along the lines of the Ranchero and ST. But you can be sure that it will be a FWD POS that could get stuck in a hummingbird turd and isn't rated to tow even thin air.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>For my part I'm retiring to New Mexico, where I'll spend my days Frankensteining together old but rust-free cars to my heart's content.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bill Koonce, post: 950449, member: 68938"] Several years ago I was paging through a book that listed the vital statistics of various cars over the years. I was born back when cars had X frames, were made of steel and glass (and little else), and weighed between 2500 and 6000 lbs. I came of age when Detroit and everybody else replaced most of the steel with plastic "to save weight". But the book I read showed that cars had actually gotten heavier, not lighter! WTF?!?!? The only answer that I could find was that any weight savings went right back into the car in the form of luxury and safety items. To put it bluntly, we screwed the pooch when it came to CAFE goals by making power [i]everything[/i] and nanny-state "save us from ourselves" features mandatory. Even worse we abandoned sensible vehicles for way-too-small, and then way-too-big. Seriously, WTF were we thinking??? The Sport Trac has gone the way of the Ranchero; gone for good. No doubt some day Ford will come up with something along the lines of the Ranchero and ST. But you can be sure that it will be a FWD POS that could get stuck in a hummingbird turd and isn't rated to tow even thin air. For my part I'm retiring to New Mexico, where I'll spend my days Frankensteining together old but rust-free cars to my heart's content. [/QUOTE]
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