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Thursday, December 15, 2022

Ford F-150 Lightning: hits and misses

 


...from George Pearkes' piece in Business Insider on the pleasures (and displeasures) of the Ford F-150 Lightning ownership experience. We posted on the Lightning earlier this year. 

And Bloomberg has a piece on Ford offering "flexible financing" to persuade municipalities to buy the Lightning as a police cruiser.  The last police car we posted was a '59–of course-Pontiac.

     Kinda ugly. More than. A monster. In a bad way. 

Is AL alone in finding Ford--no, all- trucks kinda ugly these days? The bigger, the uglier. They need to lighten up on the beefcake. Or maybe keep it as an option. So that, if you want, you can order the Faux-Masculinity Package. We prefer European trucks; they look like trucks.  American trucks--a lot of American culture-- seem to reflect a WWE aesthetic or set of values, if you can call them that. Monstrous... misogynist... money..are a fair summary, I reckon. 

Too big. Too get-outta-my-way. Too expensive.


              

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