Ford's Next-Generation Navigation System
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And to everyone who thinks navigation makes you less of a man, or makes you look like you don't know how to navigate:
I used to feel the same way before I got nav capability in my car. I always thought, what's the point, just learn the roads, wuss.
But after having GPS for a while, I can honestly say more information in the car is better. What are you going to do when you're far from home (happens alot in large metro areas), and you just get a call that the sushi resteraunt is closed on saturdays, so your friends are meeting up Location X instead? Drive home and mapquest? Demand a turn by turn list of directions to something 10 miles away and scribble it down?
Also very helpful when you're in a hurry.
I find this anti-GPS sentiment just as silly as noob programmers who insist on coding exclusively in notepad, even when there are much more powerful coding tools around. It doesn't make you a bigger programmer or man. What separates us from the apes is our ability use tools to perform actions than an unaided human.
But yeah, no offense to the luddites
. I can understand your desire for a stripped down no-frills, serious race car.. and it really does make sense if the mustang is only a race-car for you. For me, a mustang will be my only car for the forseeable future, so it must be all things. (Fast, pretty, luxurious, high tech). Just spouting off my views.
I used to feel the same way before I got nav capability in my car. I always thought, what's the point, just learn the roads, wuss.
But after having GPS for a while, I can honestly say more information in the car is better. What are you going to do when you're far from home (happens alot in large metro areas), and you just get a call that the sushi resteraunt is closed on saturdays, so your friends are meeting up Location X instead? Drive home and mapquest? Demand a turn by turn list of directions to something 10 miles away and scribble it down?
Also very helpful when you're in a hurry.
I find this anti-GPS sentiment just as silly as noob programmers who insist on coding exclusively in notepad, even when there are much more powerful coding tools around. It doesn't make you a bigger programmer or man. What separates us from the apes is our ability use tools to perform actions than an unaided human.
But yeah, no offense to the luddites
. I can understand your desire for a stripped down no-frills, serious race car.. and it really does make sense if the mustang is only a race-car for you. For me, a mustang will be my only car for the forseeable future, so it must be all things. (Fast, pretty, luxurious, high tech). Just spouting off my views.It's an option, after all. Not everybody will opt to order the same trim packages, either.
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Hold back is an amount of money that is paid to the dealer when a vehicle is sold retail or lease. Although if you dealer trade or sell it to another dealer you wont get paid that amount. At least thats how it was when I worked at both a Chrysler and GM store. Holdback is used to pay for advertising costs locally or keeping the lights on or cleaning in most cases but with a good turnover ratio(meaning selling the car fast to limit floorplan costs) it can also be extra profit. Anyone else care to expand on this?
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From: Milwaukee, WI
And to everyone who thinks navigation makes you less of a man, or makes you look like you don't know how to navigate:
I used to feel the same way before I got nav capability in my car. I always thought, what's the point, just learn the roads, wuss.
But after having GPS for a while, I can honestly say more information in the car is better. What are you going to do when you're far from home (happens alot in large metro areas), and you just get a call that the sushi resteraunt is closed on saturdays, so your friends are meeting up Location X instead? Drive home and mapquest? Demand a turn by turn list of directions to something 10 miles away and scribble it down?
Also very helpful when you're in a hurry.
I find this anti-GPS sentiment just as silly as noob programmers who insist on coding exclusively in notepad, even when there are much more powerful coding tools around. It doesn't make you a bigger programmer or man. What separates us from the apes is our ability use tools to perform actions better than an unaided human.
But yeah, no offense to the luddites. I can understand your desire for a stripped down no-frills, serious race car.. and it really does make sense if the mustang is only a race-car for you. For me, a mustang will be my only car for the forseeable future, so it must be all things. (Fast, pretty, luxurious, high tech). Just spouting off my views.
I used to feel the same way before I got nav capability in my car. I always thought, what's the point, just learn the roads, wuss.
But after having GPS for a while, I can honestly say more information in the car is better. What are you going to do when you're far from home (happens alot in large metro areas), and you just get a call that the sushi resteraunt is closed on saturdays, so your friends are meeting up Location X instead? Drive home and mapquest? Demand a turn by turn list of directions to something 10 miles away and scribble it down?
Also very helpful when you're in a hurry.
I find this anti-GPS sentiment just as silly as noob programmers who insist on coding exclusively in notepad, even when there are much more powerful coding tools around. It doesn't make you a bigger programmer or man. What separates us from the apes is our ability use tools to perform actions better than an unaided human.
But yeah, no offense to the luddites
. I can understand your desire for a stripped down no-frills, serious race car.. and it really does make sense if the mustang is only a race-car for you. For me, a mustang will be my only car for the forseeable future, so it must be all things. (Fast, pretty, luxurious, high tech). Just spouting off my views.
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The formula for my '08 on X-Plan for the total car purchase would be (invoice*.996)+75.00
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But yeah, no offense to the luddites
. I can understand your desire for a stripped down no-frills, serious race car.. and it really does make sense if the mustang is only a race-car for you. For me, a mustang will be my only car for the forseeable future, so it must be all things. (Fast, pretty, luxurious, high tech). Just spouting off my views.
+1000
It would take me a year to learn all of that stuff.
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From: Long Island, NY
Originally Posted by krnpimpsta
But yeah, no offense to the luddites . I can understand your desire for a stripped down no-frills, serious race car.. and it really does make sense if the mustang is only a race-car for you. For me, a mustang will be my only car for the forseeable future, so it must be all things. (Fast, pretty, luxurious, high tech). Just spouting off my views.
But yeah, no offense to the luddites . I can understand your desire for a stripped down no-frills, serious race car.. and it really does make sense if the mustang is only a race-car for you. For me, a mustang will be my only car for the forseeable future, so it must be all things. (Fast, pretty, luxurious, high tech). Just spouting off my views.
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From: Traverse City
Originally Posted by krnpimpsta
But yeah, no offense to the luddites . I can understand your desire for a stripped down no-frills, serious race car.. and it really does make sense if the mustang is only a race-car for you. For me, a mustang will be my only car for the forseeable future, so it must be all things. (Fast, pretty, luxurious, high tech). Just spouting off my views.
But yeah, no offense to the luddites . I can understand your desire for a stripped down no-frills, serious race car.. and it really does make sense if the mustang is only a race-car for you. For me, a mustang will be my only car for the forseeable future, so it must be all things. (Fast, pretty, luxurious, high tech). Just spouting off my views.
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But yeah, no offense to the luddites. I can understand your desire for a stripped down no-frills, serious race car.. and it really does make sense if the mustang is only a race-car for you. For me, a mustang will be my only car for the forseeable future, so it must be all things. (Fast, pretty, luxurious, high tech). Just spouting off my views.
But yeah, no offense to the luddites
. I can understand your desire for a stripped down no-frills, serious race car.. and it really does make sense if the mustang is only a race-car for you. For me, a mustang will be my only car for the forseeable future, so it must be all things. (Fast, pretty, luxurious, high tech). Just spouting off my views.
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It's not a BMW LOL....their NAVi manual is like "War and Peace". I hear the Lincoln MKS is intuitive (as it should be).
I've been using a basic Garmin Nav for years......I haven't looked at a map in ages, at least not for driving.
I've been using a basic Garmin Nav for years......I haven't looked at a map in ages, at least not for driving.
