What is the prize of this pedantry contest, and can we set a deadline for final entries to win it?

Quote from: 12,000 RPM on November 22, 2019, 05:15:05 AM
What is the prize of this pedantry contest, and can we set a deadline for final entries to win it?

I quit 

Quote from: 12,000 RPM on November 22, 2019, 05:15:05 AM
What is the prize of this pedantry contest, and can we set a deadline for final entries to win it?

I have to agree. This is some dumb ass discourse for shit nobody buys.

I think this thing will do well and is a positive sign for Ford's electric future.

Quote from: 12,000 RPM on November 22, 2019, 07:43:13 AM
I think this thing will do well and is a positive sign for Ford's electric future.

The Tesla truck is the best publicity the Mach E could have got.

Quote from: MX793 on November 22, 2019, 04:58:07 AM
Please cite a specification.

The absence of a B pillar is the distinction of a hardtop, not a coupe.  Coupes, sedans, and even wagons may or may not be hardtops.  The mid 50s Bel Air could be had as either a 2 or 4 door hardtop (no pillar) or sedan (with pillar).

I also wouldn't take Chevy marketing as to what is or isn't a coupe as gospel.  They marketed fixed-roof Corvairs as "spyders".  A spyder is a roadster.

Actually, the specification is what an automaker calls it:

Pontiac LeMans coupe:



Cadillac Coupe DeVille:



A coupe can have a b-pillar, if the rear window doesn't roll down:

The classification fail is cars have grown and the SAE standard has not been updated

Who looks up SAE classifications before deciding what to call a car?

A Coupe, BTW, is a cut-down sedan for two passengers, plus a driver and (optionally) a footman that is pulled by no more than two horses.

Cutlass Supreme with nacho cheese

Well since trying to define specifications for what vehicle terms mean is pedantry, I am going to say that the Challenger is a Pickup truck in the vein of a Chevy Avalanche. It is RWD, it has 2 rows of seats and it has an exterior cargo area with a locking hard cover.

Quote from: RomanChariot on November 22, 2019, 10:13:30 AM
Well since trying to define specifications for what vehicle terms mean is pedantry, I am going to say that the Challenger is a Pickup truck in the vein of a Chevy Avalanche. It is RWD, it has 2 rows of seats and it has an exterior cargo area with a locking hard cover.

Arguing over inches of length and rear seating space is pedantic.

Quote from: Soup DeVille on November 22, 2019, 10:29:19 AM
Arguing over inches of length and rear seating space is pedantic.

Men have been arguing over that since they first looked in their pants.

Quote from: RomanChariot on November 22, 2019, 10:32:22 AM
Men have been arguing over that since they first looked in their pants.

Well, those inches are more precious to come by.

Quote from: RomanChariot on November 22, 2019, 10:32:22 AM
Men have been arguing over that since they first looked in their pants.

Quote from: Soup DeVille on November 21, 2019, 10:51:31 PM
A coupe is a coach that has been cut down to a two-seater. That's two passengers, a footman and a driver, and two horses.

Anything else is Not a coupe.

Quote from: 2o6 on November 22, 2019, 07:44:05 AM

The Tesla truck is the best publicity the Mach E could have got.

+1!

Quote from: 12,000 RPM on November 22, 2019, 07:43:13 AM
I think this thing will do well and is a positive sign for Ford's electric future.

+1

I don't like the mustang name going on a non-sports car but whatever.

EVERYONE said Porsche was nuts building an SUV, but that probably saved them?....

Porsche had the good sense not to name their SUV the "911 GT3X".

If they did the outcome would have been exactly the same.

Quote from: Soup DeVille on November 22, 2019, 10:09:37 AM
Who looks up SAE classifications before deciding what to call a car?

A Coupe, BTW, is a cut-down sedan for two passengers, plus a driver and (optionally) a footman that is pulled by no more than two horses.

This?

Quote from: MX793 on November 24, 2019, 08:05:11 PM
Porsche had the good sense not to name their SUV the "911 GT3X".

Quote from: 12,000 RPM on November 25, 2019, 05:30:06 AM
If they did the outcome would have been exactly the same.

In retrospect, it may have sold even better..

Quote from: NomisR on November 25, 2019, 11:47:00 AM
This?

Exactly!

Keep going.

Quote from: GoCougs on November 25, 2019, 12:23:48 PM
Keep going.

It's not going anywhere without a horse.

Would it hurt a horse's feelings if it were found to not produce 1 SAE horsepower?

Quote from: r0tor on November 25, 2019, 01:27:07 PM
Would it hurt a horse's feelings if it were found to not produce 1 SAE horsepower?

Horses in general produce around 4 hp (peak), but there's of course a story behind that too...

The difference of course is "coupe" is not a standardized unit of measurement.

Hmmpf...Chevy Camaro EV Crossover Imagined To Take On The Mustang Mach-E

Quote from: FoMoJo on November 28, 2019, 07:45:03 AM
Hmmpf...Chevy Camaro EV Crossover Imagined To Take On The Mustang Mach-E

Isn't that just a 2-door Blazer?

Wow. read the WHOLE thread. Arguing worse than anything I ever did here. And Cougs being a royal idiot once again who really doesn't know what he's talking about especially when it comes to modern EVs.

I'm a multi time Mustang owner of modern and classic Mustangs and a fan of the marque. And I like this EV. I understand what they were doing with the branding, generating buzz that an Escape EV would not have done. How much buzz?

The first year's production of the $61k First Edition is sold out already. So much for the "it won't sell" remarks in the thread.

I would love to have one of these as the daily driver in a garage next to a GT350 or GT500.

The Mustang is dead.