"MrPseudonym" (mrpseudonym)
04/20/2015 at 15:07 • Filed to: Excursion, Ford, V10
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"MrPseudonym" (mrpseudonym)
04/20/2015 at 15:07 • Filed to: Excursion, Ford, V10 | 3
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Please, Oppo. Tell me I’m not the only one who misses big V-10 thunder and massive SUV things. Please tell me that I’m not the only one who misses things that are so large, they should drop the S and just become Utility Vehicles. Please, tell me I’m not the only one saddened by the loss of this amazing vehicle, some ten years ago. By the loss of column shifters. By the loss of everything that should define the American SUV today.
Help stop the abuse of the SUV market by designers who wish only to appeal to white, middle-aged suburbanite soccer moms who haul only children and not anything useful , but still bought an SUV to compliment their manicured lawns and marble houses, perfect shrubbery and black-dyed mulch, instead of buying a more reasonable, more efficient, and more practical minivan.
Please. Join me, and we can give it our best shot, to bring about a better world. One full-sized, Utility focused, V-10 powered SUV at a time.
Hopefully, we can bring back the Excursion. And V-10s.
MegaSuper
> MrPseudonym
04/20/2015 at 15:11 |
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Was this a petrol V10 or diesel V10? If it’s the former, then, yeah, wow, that is quite interesting. Only other V10 utility anythings are from RAM, VW, and Audi, yeah? (I think Audi even had a diesel V12)
The new Explorer is sort of car-like…makes me wonder why Ford couldn’t bring back the Excursion, make it a bit more tall and less long, and make it an Audi Q7/Merc GL/BMW X5 or X6 competitor? Might be a contender in parts of the US that aren’t as built-up and have more room.
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> MrPseudonym
04/20/2015 at 15:11 |
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NEEDS MOAR LSX
yamahog
> MrPseudonym
04/20/2015 at 15:13 |
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My aunt had one of these. She also has six children who needed to be carted to Catholic school (no buses) and hockey/soccer/cheer/acting practice all over the SoCal/inland empire area.
She averaged 6mpg.
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MrPseudonym
> yamahog
04/20/2015 at 15:13 |
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Holy fuck.
HammerheadFistpunch
> MrPseudonym
04/20/2015 at 15:14 |
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Diesel? Yes. V10? Hell nay. Also, these things were rust machines, trying to find a clean one is pretty touch considering that aren’t that old.
jjhats
> yamahog
04/20/2015 at 15:14 |
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my 03 explorer had a v6 and only returned 16-17 so im not that surprised
Captain of the Enterprise
> MrPseudonym
04/20/2015 at 15:15 |
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I have a neighbor who has been using it as a tow vehicle for their 30 foot trailer and as the family runabout for over 10 years now.
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yamahog
> MrPseudonym
04/20/2015 at 15:16 |
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Yeaaaaa. In comparison, my old V8 Explorer (hauling myself, then-bf, all my possessions and trailer with motorcycle) was basically a Prius.
RockThrillz89
> MrPseudonym
04/20/2015 at 15:24 |
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Friend from back in middle school mother had one. Had a run in with a 18 wheeler. Had to go to the body shop for a while (yeah, those things were built like brick shithouses in Tornado Alley). They had a loaner Suburban of similar year, and my buddy bitched everyday about how small the Burban was.
I, too, miss that American automotive excess and super cheap gas in certain respects.
Snuze: Needs another Swede
> MrPseudonym
04/20/2015 at 15:24 |
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I have a neighbor who is a retired school bus driver, who has one. I always joke that it must be because he misses driving the bus. Anyways, it is utterly immaculate. Before he drove buses he was a firefighter, so his trucks (that’s all he and his wife will buy) are always mechanically sound and impressively clean.
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MegaSuper
> RockThrillz89
04/20/2015 at 15:31 |
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Haha, may I ask what part of the US this was in? In the parts of the US I’ve been to, I don’t even know where there’s room to park a Suburban, let alone an Excursion!
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Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> MegaSuper
04/20/2015 at 15:38 |
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Gas V10, Diesel V8.
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RockThrillz89
> MegaSuper
04/20/2015 at 15:39 |
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South Carolina. There’s plenty of places to park those supertankers around here. And just because it looks like there isn’t enough room, doesn’t mean they can’t fit there. I’ve seen people park those things better than I can park my Civic, and I think I’m fairly decent at parking. But to be honest, for every parking prodigy I’ve seen in those Excursions, I’ve seen 10 others that just throw those things around like the tanks they are - no regard for any other vehicle, little children (except their own little special snowflakes sitting in the back geeked up on NyQuil and watching Bambi for the 30th time) or the elderly.
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MegaSuper
> RockThrillz89
04/20/2015 at 15:42 |
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Would you say South Carolina is a good place to be a motorist? I’ve heard a lot of praise for it on here.
Baeromez
> MrPseudonym
04/20/2015 at 15:43 |
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If it didn’t have a diesel, you were doing it wrong.
JR1
> MrPseudonym
04/20/2015 at 15:50 |
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*sigh
Bring back the SUVs!!!!
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RockThrillz89
> MegaSuper
04/20/2015 at 15:55 |
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Sure. Pretty low property taxes, maximum sales tax of $300 on a vehicle, close to the mountains with a little of our own, popular beaches with lots of pretty cool cars/trucks driving the boulevard, cops are pretty chill unless your driving like a twat and a DMV that will register just about anything that shows up under its own power and you can scratch a check for the flat rate fees. As far as the car culture, I’d say it would depend on which part of the state you lived in. The Upstate is probably the best area for a little bit of everything, since BMW has a plant there. So there are a lot of gear heads working in the area, and some of them happen to have a lot of money. Plus it’s close to the mountains/where the mountains are, so you’ll see more sporty cars there. The closer you get to the cost, the more trucks you’ll see, since there is so much farming in that area. Everything in between you’ll find a mix. And we have a race track that is semi-open to the public (Carolina Motorsports Park), though I’ve never used it.
BobintheMtns
> yamahog
04/20/2015 at 16:45 |
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An engineer buddy told me a story about these.. I’m not sure if it’s true, could just be an urban legend, so take it with a grain of salt..
But the story was that when the Excursion was being designed, the engineers had only one criteria: make it bigger than a suburban so they could say “ford’s is biggest.” But, when getting EPA certified, the feds had all sorts of issues with just how much pollution it put out. So Ford, rather than redesigning it to be more efficient, tweaking the cpu or something else to help save gas, Ford instead bolted a 300lb metal plate to the chassis.
The 300lb weight was to bump the excursion into the next weight class (the one that included dump trucks and school buses). Ford then triumphantly declared, “lowest emissions in its class!”
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> MrPseudonym
04/20/2015 at 16:52 |
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yamahog
> BobintheMtns
04/20/2015 at 17:02 |
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That’d be hilarious :D they wouldn’t even need to be the “best” in that class since commercial vehicles aren’t rated by the EPA.
Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
> MegaSuper
04/20/2015 at 17:33 |
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The new expedition competes with the Q7 and GL iirc, Europeans never made anything big enough to compete with an excursion with the exception of maybe a city bus. Was availible with a gas v10 or diesel v8
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Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
> MrPseudonym
04/20/2015 at 17:34 |
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I understand that the powerstroke was better in pretty much every way than the triton v10 but man I do love me a v10