• pdxfed@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Queue the propaganda pieces from the Chinese. You are seeing this as Canada just opened their markets to Chinese autos last week and the US is terrified and China wants to push their advantage while the US is destroying their own global market hegemony.

    This piece is meant to sew desire for Chinese car products to either indirectly support Canadian market entry as reasonable, which if you’re Canada it is, if you’re the US it’s disastrous for your dated, overpriced, uncompetitive, sluggish auto industry.t

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        9 days ago

        Likely not, I’ve seen it’s a popular model to hate on though, most likely due to using the Mustang badging.

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          9 days ago

          Yeah the vehicle is great. Lots of room, good acceleration…

          But Mustang? Come on it’s a fucking crossover. To put that and this beast…

          in the same category is a freaking sacrilege.

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            9 days ago

            I see this comparison a lot and wonder why they feel that the E is the terrible departure from the muscle-bound model when this existed decades prior.

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              9 days ago

              The whole 3rd (1980-1993) and especially the 4th (1994-2004) gen Mustangs were pretty mediocre looking.

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                8 days ago

                You’re absolutely right. Just like every other model out there, this one has had some egregious missteps in design over the decades. The e is hardly the first time that the badge was used on a vehicle that didn’t sit well with the fans.