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The now defunct Hi-Po 2.3L EcoBoost would also be a great engine option IMHO.

200 lbs lighter, at least, that opens up the door for a rally version, with that lighter-weight, with a E-FWD unit using the braking energy and only and a small battery.

The E-Drive on the @$$ end of the Mach-E impressed that stink out of Sandy Munro, that's 200hp ish so use that.

Oh man, no one could catch you out of the corners.

"They wrote that the engine is “behind the front axle.” It’s obvious it is squarely on top of the front wheel centerline - looks like they maybe moved the engine a couple inches rearward to improve weight distribution."

Yes P.O.P. This is Corvette C5 thru 7 technology, however your spot on about moving the engine back, Max Balchowsky and Old Yeller comes to mind.

RIP...

Stunning she was.

A picture of her driving a 23 T-Bucket, from 1969. Sorry link only, it looks copyrighted..

https://silverpinups.com/product/orig-1969-raquel-welch-hot-rod-beauty-candid-press-portrait-by-terry-oneill/

"Well, “the Great Revolt” by Salena Zito, which polled ONLY GOP voters after 2016, found that in fact large numbers had never voted before and hated the GOP. They only voted for Trump. No one knows what this number is, but this “undervote” is significant, and showed up in the midterms of 2018 and 2022."

LS,

You might agree the elite-GOP anti-Trump Corporatist is choosing the option of defeat. Rush said it, vote for PJDT for his 100 days and you own this country for 2 generations.

If they really wanted to be a majority party, embrace these Blue Collar "undervote" which would be move towards liberty and put the DNC on it's heals.

Instead they choose the being the designated looser, aka Bob Michaels on steriods.

Whatta mess...

Policy, Policy, Policy.

Ronaldus Maximus would not do this.

Frankly I am very Trumpian, but this is getting old. I get him, he's an arse, but he's my arse. His style is a Northeast Ballbuster thing, I so get it growing up there, and if you look and listen close Coulter and Ingraham are like that, but Laura has reeled it in IMHO as she's on a different journey. He's like my buds in High School, it was constant, and in terms of going up against the Fake News and the Deep State Swamp, we want that fighter....

However, It goes over like a loud fart in church, especially in the MidWest with the Exburb Karens, who want nicey nicey.

IMHO?

His 2nd state of the Union which Rocked, he needs to run and speak like that from now on, or they steal it again....

The economy imho is about to take a $h!++er, He needs to give these women something to vote for as Inflation / Stagflation ruins their lives, very much like many of these types voted for Bush in 2004, it was about safety, they sensed Kerry was a bureaucratic dork, not an Alpha.

this 2004 scenario will happen again IMHO, wise up team Trump, make this happen 2nd state of the Union type demeanor your new face or loose IMHO...

BTW I'm not just pulling this out of my ear, a former Hi-Po Tea-Party Wonk I stay in touch with is so over him, he's loosing the Grass Roots if they have lost this person.

JMHO....

Not disagreeing Tony, I just used the “T” as an umbrella, I’ve seen it with all shapes and sizes and the language, again I am horrified for our future...

Home of a great Flyin, in about 59 days.

I hope to go...

https://flysnf.org/

You have no idea how this “T” issue is affecting our culture. I’ve been on college campuses a bit lately and it is frightening. I can’t even begin to tell you the stories, I don’t want to sick. The regret in the future will be huge if they don’t wake up.

Some from research and my thoughts...

* High wings with 1 struts in the 200 mph club (Homebuilt Wittman Tailwind) pay a small drag penalty, however less weight, you can go with thinner wings and some say less interference drag with the fuselage.
*Their has been some R & D done on this config with the struts and yes their are benefits. IMHO the struts are possibly adding to the lift, they are not just structural.
* Think "Poor Man's Area Rule" to get the Fuselage width just right to reduce drag.
* It's even funkier with the airliners with the lower body they mount it on (Kind of what's on the top of the fuselage here)
* Notice the lower fuselage bulges for the main gear.
* My guess? Boeing blew it with the 737X not having the room without major changes to the wing to redesign the landing gear to accommodate the Pratt and Whitney Geared Turbofan for this class of aircraft, they will have all the room they need now...

"There isn’t enough rare earth minerals to move over to EV’s, and there never was. The process is very toxic."

Cap...

many are working on a system that defies description, it's like putting it in a gel and they are geared for a specific rare earth with high extraction rates. Another source, stagnant H20 run off ponds from Coal Mining. Fascinating technology, ready for prime time(?), that's the question.

Start here:

https://www.ornl.gov/news/game-changing-rare-earth-elements-separation-technology-licensed-marshallton

"It’s not clear what will happen to the site, or the millions of dollars Ford already invested in preparing Berry Hill for a battery plant."

Duh, you are partnering with Solid Power for their Solid State battery, they want to monetize it, ok go with your Korean Partner in VA, let them build it, win/win. You want a higher performance Battery for Lincolns? Get a like arrangement for QuantumScape Batteries at this location.

Duh...

"Sweden has recently discovered plenty"....

Dr, with their homegrown battery manufacture Northvolt, correct?

Who are partnering with CuBerg For a Solid State Battery for EVTOL's" with impressive numbers, 380 wt/kg and energy density of 3000....

"Interesting move. The trouble is, China likely has control over a majority of minerals needed to make batteries."

One more thing Monkeyshine.

We have plenty of Lithium. In North Carolina, Arkansas, California and Nevada. The Arkansas and CA stores are the Brine and an up and coming tech DLE could make it cost effective.

Alaska is full of rare earths. We don't need the Nickel or Cobalt in the batteries other chemistry's are here, not as energy dense but the work and are fire-runaway proof. Better ones (Lithium Sulfur Iron) are being discussed.

It just takes the balls to extract this stuff, we are so gelded, time to stop globalizing with the freaking ChiComs.

The Lithium, Rare Earth and Uranium Supply chains, guess who had Senate Committees looking into solutions?

U-huh, PDJT. He knew....

"The trouble is, China likely has control over a majority of minerals needed to make batteries. Not just in their own country, but now in Afghanistan and much of Africa. It’s going to be hard to pull it off without them."

And the Lithium Triangle in South America, in the last month a 700 million dollar deal, no one on our side has said a word

I'll assume many FR'ers will look at this favorably, we tend not be be fans of the CCP.

The Tenor of this article is not my cup of tea.

This CATL battery utilizes a Patented "one cell" for lack of a better term packaging technology which could give the F150 EV a potential range on one charge of 620 miles.

With as much as 60% of the batteries coming from China, do we want to outsource this to them, especially for the US's flag ship Pickup?

A tangent question is shall we assume Ford is still committed to their Solid State Battery Partner Solid Power and their efforts to increase range, reduce charge times, and weight with their technology.

Youngkin put a stop to development on the plant due to Ford’s partnership with Contemporary Amperex Technology, a Chinese company that reigns as the largest battery manufacturer in the world.

A confused Detroit News reached out to Youngkin’s office for comment:

“While Ford is an iconic American company, it became clear that this proposal would serve as a front for the Chinese Communist party, which could compromise our economic security and Virginians’ personal privacy,” Youngkin spokesperson Macaulay Porter said in a statement to The Detroit News.

“Virginians can be confident that companies with known ties to the Chinese Communist Party won’t receive a leg up from the Commonwealth’s economic incentive packages,” she added. “When the potentially damaging effects of the deal were realized, the plant proposal never reached a final discussion stage.”

I’m sure that newfound confidence will help the folks around Berry Hill pay their bills, as the location has no new tenant. Ford is the second-largest EV builder in the U.S., after Tesla, and the Blue Oval is focusing on a strategy of building its own batteries as the automaker transitions to EVs.

The late December decision came just as DeSantis demanded the Republican legislature in Florida ban China from purchasing real estate — especially farmland — in the Sunshine State. Youngkin, who fancies himself in the running against DeSantis for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, followed suit. That’s despite China owning less than one percent of agricultural tracts in the U.S., the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.

At least those policies didn’t directly hurt the people of Virginia or Florida. Rejecting thousands of new jobs with a storied American car manufacturer, slated for an economically depressed community, sure does impact Youngkin’s constituents.

Democrats in the state were predictably critical of the move. From the Times-Dispatch:

“During his campaign, the Governor made a promise to bring economic development and manufacturing jobs to our communities that are struggling — especially in rural Virginia — to attract industries that offer competitive wages,” wrote Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, D-Chesterfield, in an email on Monday. “The Governor’s decision to pull Virginia out of the competition for the new Ford facility puts the Commonwealth at a severe disadvantage.”

Sen. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, said in an interview that “to deny [people in the community] jobs because you’re in last place in Republican presidential primaries [is] gubernatorial malpractice.”

“I mean, this is clearly just obvious to me that the governor’s in some kind of out-China-bashing-contest with [Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis and Governor Greg Abbott out of Texas,” he added.

It’s not clear what will happen to the site, or the millions of dollars Ford already invested in preparing Berry Hill for a battery plant. Luckily, there are plenty of places that would welcome that kind of investment. Michigan, for one, is predictably thirsty for this new EV battery plant. There are several locations in the company’s home state on the short list of places to build the giant battery facility — areas that are just as strapped for good blue-collar jobs as Berry Hill, including Mundy Township in Genesee County, Michigan. Ford is also building three battery plants in the American south as it is; two in Kentucky and one in Tennessee. The plant near Memphis, Tennessee will be the largest in the automaker’s history, according to Ford.

Florida and Virginia aren’t the only states using the people’s work to score pointless political wins. Wyoming Republicans tried to put up a resolution banning the sale of EVs in the state after 2035. It died pretty much immediately in committee, as lawmakers figured the purely symbolic resolution would.

A conservative friend in CA who is also an EV driver for his 20 mile or so commute told me about this problem 6 to 8 months ago. Nothing new here frankly.

Check out this thread on Twitter, John Lee Petttimore on "rare earths" and mining and the ramifications therein.

https://twitter.com/JohnLeePettim13/status/1614178348694904837?s=20&t=1BMnK4TMSeHdNU5_Mfg97A

"When I was a callow youth (about 55 years ago; still callow but youth is long gone) there was a wooded lot, maybe an acre or so, in which were the carcasses of many old, old cars rusting away. I’ve often wondered 8f they’re still there."

Yes a lot of that back in the day. Looking for a barn to store a Mustang I had a got a lead on a barn to find it filled with old Vettes. A lot of stuff in plain site in Suburbia. I stumbled upon a Triumph Stag in the burbs and I remember a home in "A Squared" with a 62' and 2 63 thru 67 Vettes either in the garage or one in the driveway.

"She quit in 2020 when she was most needed. Why would Trump want her back again? Yes, I’m holding a grudge."

The whole 16 team fell apart. The computer geek numbers guy, very tall got arrested for a domestic. Kelly's husband a freaking nightmare. Kushner who helped get the band together in 16 dropped the freaking ball. 1/2 I'd say was deep state stagecraft, the other 1/2 Covi making people stir crazy, I who knows what else.

Maybe she saw all the Ballot stuff Sundance has nailed coming down and she left rather than get blamed.

These collections exist....

about 20 yrs ago now, I happen to be making a shortcut in wealth S.E. Michigan burb neighborhood to beat the trains (Hint: "You'll shoot your eye out kid) and out of the corner of my eye, not one but two Gull Wing Mercedes just out of the garage.

A departed friend of my dad who ran a business in a rough end of a formerly industrial great city on the East Coast who had his own MG collection told me of a fellow business he visited up the street for mechanical services on his equipment and chatting with the owner noted the silhouettes of 3 Cobra's under covers. Note this gent was not a bs artist, and again a 20+ year old story.

This stuff if out their on the down-lo. They keep it quiet to keep thieves away. That I learned from another collector hinting of his and how it's hidden, (and no I won't show you) and how it is a disease aka the number of them he has (rumors are street rods and muscle) and how he had lost via theft.