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Old 06-18-2018, 6:21pm   #1
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Default That Ford is HOT - GT burns to ground after 43 miles

http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/06/...an-street.html

you would think that the Mean Time Before Failure/Flame would be a bit longer than 43 miles.

yeah, he's going to need a few spare parts from Rock Auto.



yikes!
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Fix or repair daily.

Fire on rear deck.
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Acura: Awful,Crappy,Unreliable, Rusty Automobile
Acura: Automobile Causes Universal Road Accidents
Acura: All Cars Usually Require Adjustment
Acura: Any Child Understands Real Automobiles
Acura: Americans Can Underestimate Routine Accidents
Acura: Another Case of a Useless Requested Acronym?

Audi: Accelerates Under Demonic Influence

Beetle: Battered Everywhere, Expect To Lose Engine

BMW: Babbling Mechanical Wench
BMW: Beastly Monstrous Wonder
BMW: Beautiful Masterpieces on Wheels
BMW: Beautiful Mechanical Wonder
BMW: Big Money Waste
BMW: Big Money Works
BMW: Blasphemous Motorized Wreck
BMW: Born Moderately Wealthy.
BMW: Break My Windows
BMW: Broken Money Waster
BMW: Broken Monstrous Wonder
BMW: Brutal Money Waster
BMW: Bumbling Mechanical Wretch
BMW: Big Money Waster
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BMW: Bowel Movement Wagon

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Buick: Big Ugly Indestructible Car Killer
Buick: Built Under Inspection of Cooky Korean

Camaro: Can't America Make A Real One?

Chevrolet: Car Has Extensive Valve Rattle On Long Extended Trips.
Chevrolet: Crappy Hot-Running Engines, Very Rusted Out, Lose Every Time
Chevy: Charged Heavily
Chevy: Cheapest Heap Ever enVisioned Yet

Chrysler: Car Having Really Yucky Stupid Lazy Engine Runs
Chrysler: Could Have Remained Your Sickly Lame Elderly Relative's

Citroen: Crap Interior Terrible Road-holding Owned Entirely by Nutters

Dodge: Dead Or Dying Garbage Emitter
Dodge: Drips Oil, Drops Grease, Everywhere
Dodge: Dem Old Dudes Go Everywhere

Datsun: Detroit's Angry Towards Sneaky Unscrupulous Nips

Fiat: F**king Italian Attempt (at) Transportation.
Fiat: Failure in Automotive Technology
Fiat: Feeble Italian Attempt at Transportation
Fiat: Fix It Again Tony?
Fiat: Fix It All the Time
Fiat: F*ck in a Taxi.

Ford: F**ked over rebuilt Dodge
Ford: F**ker Only Runs Downhill
Ford: F*cked on Race Day
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Ford: F*ckin' Out-Right Dangerous
Ford: First On Recall Day
Ford: First on race day
Ford: Fix Or Repair Daily
Ford: Found on road dead
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GMC: Get More Chicks
GMC: Got More Crap
GMC: Grungy Merchandise
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Honda: Hell Of a Nice Damn Automobile
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VW: Very Worthless

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Mopar: Move Over, People Are Racing

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...so it could be a while before this owner can get his hands on another one if his can’t be repaired.
Uhhhhhhh.... Yea. That totally looks fixable.
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Old 06-19-2018, 6:29am   #6
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That'll surely take the pressure off of Tesla.
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Old 06-19-2018, 8:06am   #7
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Fix or repair daily.

Fire on rear deck.
Anyone know anything about just what caused the fire??
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Anyone know anything about just what caused the fire??
Spark, fuel and air.
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Spark, fuel and air.
Does it every time.
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