stevedebi Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 I sold a set of Grill Covers to CMAX Owner Alaska,LOL. :) Going I-20 - I-10 across Texas is about 850 miles, one day of driving. ;) Paul827.4 from Beaumont (LA border) to El Paso. A looong ways, especially once you get past San Antonio. West Texas is a bit boring over the long haul. That is going via I-10. It might be closer (but far longer) to try a more direct route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottwood2 Posted May 12, 2016 Report Share Posted May 12, 2016 The other issue I have seen - especially in quickly growing areas - is untimed traffic lights. More effort by local governments to sync their traffic signals would result in a meaningful improvement. Ideally you would have a 45 mph speed limit and by actually proceeding at 40-45, you would only catch a red light once in every several signals. I don't see much of that around here anymore. More automated signals seem to want to make you stop for every light. I think they do that to bunch up the cars more and to keep traffic speed down. Just a guess on my part. They are also very hard to time sometimes. I go to work early and very light traffic at that time. Some lights will stay green for only 5 or 10 seconds if no one is going through the intersection. I swear that some traffic lights are just staying green long enough to get you close to the intersection and then change to red just in time for you to make a quick stop. :drop: obob, ptjones and Louder North 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetAFEng Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 The comparisons that they used in the article are not very good in the case of the C Max. Firstly the C Max was not in the comparison, maybe because there is not a ICE only model. Therefore I took the closest Ford product an Escape and priced it on Fords Website as close as I could to my C Max SEL and it was a SE FWD fully optioned. The Escape cost $400 less than the C Max. If I had taken the Escape Titanium it would have had 4WD and all the options available on the C Max SEL, so I defaulted the SE model to have the FWD. Now this means that for me the payback would have been about 6 months for a comparable vehicle in size and options with similar performance. As my previous vehicle was a 2013 Focus the difference in fuel costs for the C Max is approx. $40. per month less with the C Max than the Focus; or 10 months payback. If they compared the Ford vehicles of similar size or model and optioned as close to each other as possible instead of a base model compared to a mid-line model hybrid the paybacks would have been much shorter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxHeadroom Posted June 21, 2016 Report Share Posted June 21, 2016 Going by TrueCar.com, which I've found is decent, a base model cheapest possible Ford Escape (new), but add aluminum wheels like the Cmax has, is about identical in price to a CMax. Like within $200 or so, negligible diff. This market really hates Cmax hybrids, man.About zero hybrid premium. Both vehicles about $21k. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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