Right Lane Cruiser
05-04-2009, 08:45 AM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/AmericanFlag.jpg I really like this car, mostly because it feels and looks like a nice, high-quality, midsize family sedan instead of a science project. (http://www.projo.com/projocars/content/ca_10fusionhybrid_05-02-09_OBDLO3A_v6.23c9409.html)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/2010_Ford_Fusion_Hybrid_Challenge_Vehicle_in_front_of_the_Capital_on_Tuesday_Morning.jpgWarren Brown - The Providence Journal (http://www.projo.com) - May 2, 2009
There isn't much to nit pick on this vehicle. :D --Ed.
WASHINGTON — Troll the garages and parking lots of Capitol Hill. Lots of Acura, Audi, BMW, Honda, Mercedes-Benz and Toyota cars are in those places. After a while, it becomes clear that it’s not so much that Detroit does not make cars Americans want to buy. It’s that many of the people who were sent to Washington to represent America are no longer interested in taking what America is making.
Their rejection of homemade goods has more to do with their illusion of status and sophistication than it does with any inherent inferiority in American cars and trucks. What they need is a motorized attitude changer. I can suggest many with GM, Ford and, on the truck side, Chrysler badges. But in this space, at this time, I offer one — the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid family sedan.
We did not want to return the Fusion Hybrid at the end of the test week, during which we tried all sorts of things to make it run out of gas.
Mary Anne, my wife, drove it all over suburban Virginia, deliberately allowing it to idle, only to discover that she was saving fuel by recharging the Fusion Hybrid’s nickel-metal hydride batteries through regenerative braking. Mary Anne fell in love with this car, but I wrested it from her for a... http://www.projo.com/projocars/content/ca_10fusionhybrid_05-02-09_OBDLO3A_v6.23c9409.html
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/2010_Ford_Fusion_Hybrid_Challenge_Vehicle_in_front_of_the_Capital_on_Tuesday_Morning.jpgWarren Brown - The Providence Journal (http://www.projo.com) - May 2, 2009
There isn't much to nit pick on this vehicle. :D --Ed.
WASHINGTON — Troll the garages and parking lots of Capitol Hill. Lots of Acura, Audi, BMW, Honda, Mercedes-Benz and Toyota cars are in those places. After a while, it becomes clear that it’s not so much that Detroit does not make cars Americans want to buy. It’s that many of the people who were sent to Washington to represent America are no longer interested in taking what America is making.
Their rejection of homemade goods has more to do with their illusion of status and sophistication than it does with any inherent inferiority in American cars and trucks. What they need is a motorized attitude changer. I can suggest many with GM, Ford and, on the truck side, Chrysler badges. But in this space, at this time, I offer one — the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid family sedan.
We did not want to return the Fusion Hybrid at the end of the test week, during which we tried all sorts of things to make it run out of gas.
Mary Anne, my wife, drove it all over suburban Virginia, deliberately allowing it to idle, only to discover that she was saving fuel by recharging the Fusion Hybrid’s nickel-metal hydride batteries through regenerative braking. Mary Anne fell in love with this car, but I wrested it from her for a... http://www.projo.com/projocars/content/ca_10fusionhybrid_05-02-09_OBDLO3A_v6.23c9409.html