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Re: 'We're going to electrify the F-Series,' Ford exec says

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Post by StillBored » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 5:15 PM UTC

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Interestingly (perhaps?) we got a Leaf a few months ago and the biggest thing that surprised me is that it is massive inside. I guess because the battery is stored under the floor. Although I have relatively short arms for someone my height (5' 10"), I still think it's instructive to say that when I'm sitting in the passenger seat, I can't touch the dash without leaning forward. And, again, I have slightly shorter le…

Tesla same; drove one a few weeks ago, had 6 adults in it, and room for more I think. More than enough room.

Tesla at least in the case of the model S, has quite respectable specifications, but I physically could not drive one a couple years back. IIRC, Like the newer mustangs the seat angle drives my knees into the dash at an angle which doesn't provide enough clearance to get my feet into position. ALSO IIRC, I had to lean the seat way back to keep my head off the ceiling. If I had one handy I would go measure why it doesn't work and compare it with their official head/legroom numbers.

Re: 'We're going to electrify the F-Series,' Ford exec says

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Post by StillBored » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 5:28 PM UTC

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I'm tall too, and noticed the same thing. I drove a fox body mustang in the early 90's, but every styling change since has reduced the amount of interior head/leg room. A couple years back I had a hard time even as a passenger in one. I couldn't even get my legs under the dash due to the angle it was positioned at relative to the seat. I suspect at least part of it has to do with fuel economy standards which are part…

Interesting theory re: reduced frontal area. In college I drove an E28 ('82-'88 5-series) BMW, which were pretty darn small cars, and I actually was fine in it for over a year before I even realized it had a telescoping steering column, which made it even better! As my height is mostly in my legs, I don't notice the head room issues as much, but I notice across all three vehicles I've mentioned, they all have very mi…

I think the summary here is that, the head/leg room numbers rarely are indicative of whether the car has been designed/tested for taller people.

As you mentioned telescoping steering, I have to point out the toyota FJ, which I would have purchased because sitting it in was incredible... OTOH, the steering wheel didn't telescope, and the pedals weren't positioned particularly deeply, so while the seat slid backwards with incredible range, to drive it without leaning forward to hold the steering wheel required having the seat so far forward as to cramp my legs.. Just a couple inches of telescope would have made all the difference.

Re: 'We're going to electrify the F-Series,' Ford exec says

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Post by kstrauser » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 7:38 PM UTC

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I dunno. I’ve got a lot of bags. The kernel of truth in that: stores are required to charge for bags here (East Bay outside of SF). We have a bag of shopping bags - the “meta bag” - in our trunk so that we always have plenty available.

Gosh, I was really hoping your OP was sarcasm!

It was, or at least my attempt to be funny. But there is a little nugget of "ha-ha but no really" in there.

Re: 'We're going to electrify the F-Series,' Ford exec says

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Post by thoughtpalette » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 7:41 PM UTC

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I just learned that the term "redneck" actually comes from an old coal miner union strike that showed solidarity by using red kerchiefs hanging around their necks. I can't use that term in the same way ever again, fwiw.

> I just learned that the term "redneck" actually comes from an old coal miner union strike that showed solidarity by using red kerchiefs hanging around their necks. Curious, I reasearched this. While that was indeed one use of the term (especially re: the West Virginia mine war in 1921), the etymology for the term as we use it is from 1900ish, 20 years earlier. And it refers, more generally, to farmers and working c…

Ahh thanks for digging deeper and providing insight on this issue. I'll admit, I only heard the description through a documentary and did not do any digging of my own. Now I know :}