Drew Dowdell

Yeah, I saw e-class taxis when I was in Paris last year.

I don't either. ------- Anyway... it is always difficult for me to write articles about Mercedes-Benz because my fingers always type Mercedes-Benx....

All the black E-classes near me are typically airport hire cars.

I think GM has the nicest of the mid-size truck interiors, but yes, what they charge for a Denali trim is a joke. Ford should be embarrassed about the Focus interior they put in the Ranger. It is easy to forget that the current Ranger is not a new truck, it's just new to the US. I'm not expecting a Lincoln in there, but it needed to be more up-to-date than what we got.

No... It was a trolling post about EVs that had nothing to do with the topic on hand. If you're going to troll, since you love to troll, since at least 50% of your posts are now just EV trolling, at least troll on topic.

The 2020 E-Class is moving to a new base engine and at the same time, changing the base designation from E300 to E350. The updated 2.0-liter turbo-charged 4-cylinder makes slightly (14) more horsepower at 255 than the outgoing engine, and the torque stays the same at 273 lb-ft. C&D tested the old E300 and found the zero to 60 mph time to be lackluster at 6.5 second. The new engine shaves half a second off the C300 4Matic and could make similar improvements in the E350. Power is routed through a 9-speed automatic. Mercedes 4Matic can be ordered for an additional $2,500. Along with the engine change comes a base price increase of $550. View full article

It was trolling and not even close to the topic of tariffs.

There's also that Nissan Frontier level interior.....

Don't change the wording and intent of someone's post like that ocn.

The 737 Max issue was human error in terms of making optional a safety feature that should have been standard. I'm sure the B-52s have seen a lot of updates.... but like I mentioned, they're not building new ones. One of the things that Trump scrapped was the replacement for the KC Tankers. It was going to cost some ungodly amount to replace them with a new design when the current ones work perfectly fine and the AF likes them. Why not build new ones of the same design then?

Yeah, I know they upgrade the old ones, but instead of spending a trillion dollars on the new F35, why not build new F16s and F18s with upgraded engines etc? They're not building any new B-52s.... I'm saying they should be. Just reuse the old design for the airframe (since it was apparently so good) and upgrade the engines and electronics. Same idea as the fact that Boeing still builds 737, but upgrades them in various ways.

Indeed I saw that. That's a very robust airframe considering no replacements are being built.

I've thought the same thing about the airforce fleet. Why can't we build new A-10s and B-52 with upgraded electronics and engines? Copy/Paste the airframe design and then build the modern stuff in. It's gotta be easier to design a specific use engine for a new B-52 than design a whole new bomber. And the B-52s are still proving their value today... they can be sky based "Aircraft Carriers" for a bunch of drones and never get within weapons range distance of their targets.

These have an old school SUV kinda feel to them even if they are actually FWD based crossovers. I do admit I like them, but would I want to live with one every day? I doubt it.

Trump did put tariffs on solar panels though.

One could argue that... and be wrong. I work in the energy sector. While there is some foreign ownership of power generation, most of it is US or Canadian. The distribution of energy is also US run, if anything with too much domestic government interference, but that is the fallout of the Enron scandal

Three units? ------- My laptop docking station died , so now I'm down to a single laptop screen instead of my dual 23" setup and no curved keyboard until tomorrow. I should be able to call in sick for this!! ?

I left your anti-Warren stuff up too.

Narrator: This is false.

Even Range Rovers are unibody now. Lexus just knew they could make more money on a jacked up Camry "Sport Utility" than if they did a wagon.

Probably Mexico only.

Fixed my typos. If they had real names it wouldn't be this easy to screw up.

So in theory, if each set can get 4 speeds and manufacturers are putting 3 sets in, the maximum number of ratios is 12?