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Just bought a new 2022 Ford Explorer XLT on Wednesday.  The Crown Vic's engine completely died from a seized valve less than a week after I got onto day shift back in September, so I sold it, saved up some money for a few months and my parents also helped me with the down payment.   A lot of people might think it was a dumb purchase because it's brand new and also domestic, but buying at least one new car has always been on my bucket list and with used car prices being what they are, it seems like there's never been a better time to buy new.  It also seemed like the most spiritual successor to the Crown Vic as well since they don't make them anymore.  Plus I bought a package from the dealership where the engine is supposedly fully warrantied for as long as I own it, so at least there's that.

It's easily the fastest thing I've ever driven, it's nearly fucking terrifying how quickly this thing can pick up speed when I want it to.  It weighs probably 600 lbs more than my 4,100 lb Crown Vic did and the engine is literally half the size, but with these modern tiny aggressively tuned factory-turbocharged engines, it doesn't even matter, it just hauls ass and handles like a much lighter vehicle.

My stepdad fortunately knows a guy who's good friends with a commercial dealer about an hour away, and he absolutely hooked me up.  He basically said "Just order it from Ford's website exactly how you want it and then when it gets here, you can come in and pay MSRP, all I ask is that you don't pester me at all about when it's gonna get here".  My local dealership was charging 6,000 over MSRP on every new Explorer they had, which put them all out of my price range.  They had a 2017 Explorer XLT with like 75,000 miles on it that was still going for $29.5K after taxes & fees.

If the deal had fallen through for any reason, I probably would've gone with a Subaru Legacy.  The MSRP is over $10,000 cheaper so there's more cushion for dealership pricing bullshit, plus they're surprisingly large and good-looking for a modern sedan, and AWD is standard.  The Crown Vic had spun off the road in winter conditions at least once every other year that I owned it, I'm completely done driving things that aren't either AWD or 4WD.

Last edited by _j5689_ (2022-04-03 13:45:13)

From my front porch:

Best picture:

I really like the taillights on this generation of Explorer, also I didn't realize I had a spoiler until I took this pic:


I might have to do a proper photoshoot of some sort while it's still so shiny, it really is a gorgeous truck and these are only the first daytime pics I've taken of it.

Hopefully your new plate number won't match your temporary. Posting that stuff always makes me nervous about doxxing.

i just ordered pizza and told them to leave the bill under the windscreen wiper.

Nice and boring after the car it replaced:

Which was loud and fast and attracted too much (bad) attention.

how about just don't drive like a dummy

I had the thought recently about fuel-efficiency standards the other day and how, well-intentioned, they would likely be nowhere near as effective as possible because so many Americans drive like maniacs. Flooring the pedal from red light to red light in cities and switching between 65 and 90 mph on the highway is a helluva thing to counteract. Luckily for me, people are rightfully scared to race my turbo _1.8L...

DesertFox- wrote:

I had the thought recently about fuel-efficiency standards the other day and how, well-intentioned, they would likely be nowhere near as effective as possible because so many Americans drive like maniacs. Flooring the pedal from red light to red light in cities and switching between 65 and 90 mph on the highway is a helluva thing to counteract. Luckily for me, people are rightfully scared to race my turbo _1.8L...

EV sales have skyrocketed in china in the last 2 years. 35-40% of all new car sales in china are electric.

meanwhile you guys are rolling coal and going to giant bike meets. motorcycles are illegal in most modern chinese cities. like red neck trucks, they’re associated with criminality and low self-respect.

if the china man with a one-inch wang can move past this boyish ego trip, why are american beef cakes so fatally addicted? buy a bicycle, you brooks brothers eunuch.

i know about 3 people who have died on motorcycles. one in a very unpleasant and drawn-out way. i'm sure they're fun but so is speedballing coke and heroin. avoid.

uziq wrote:

i know about 3 people who have died on motorcycles. one in a very unpleasant and drawn-out way. i'm sure they're fun but so is speedballing coke and heroin. avoid.

I have a friend who crashed motorcycle after motorcycle, his high point was taking a loan to buy a new one, not taking insurance - with his record it was prohibitive - and crashing it within about three days.
He's in a wheelchair now.

uziq wrote:

DesertFox- wrote:

I had the thought recently about fuel-efficiency standards the other day and how, well-intentioned, they would likely be nowhere near as effective as possible because so many Americans drive like maniacs. Flooring the pedal from red light to red light in cities and switching between 65 and 90 mph on the highway is a helluva thing to counteract. Luckily for me, people are rightfully scared to race my turbo _1.8L...

EV sales have skyrocketed in china in the last 2 years. 35-40% of all new car sales in china are electric.

meanwhile you guys are rolling coal and going to giant bike meets. motorcycles are illegal in most modern chinese cities. like red neck trucks, they’re associated with criminality and low self-respect.

if the china man with a one-inch wang can move past this boyish ego trip, why are american beef cakes so fatally addicted? buy a bicycle, you brooks brothers eunuch.

Are you an actual fucking moron? I deride various commonplace fuel-wasting practices and punctuate it by sarcastically referencing the quite small displacement for the US of my cars engine (thereby insinuating I'm not gonna be drag-racing anybody) and you go off on some weird screed about rolling coal at motorcycles?