This Is Why People Think SUV Drivers Are Asshats

There are many reasons people get frustrated with SUV drivers. Crowding parking spaces like a linebacker in a port-a-john's one of them, as we see the white Suburban here doing. The gray Expedition taking four spaces? Well that's just asshattery.

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Mom Of The Year Tosses Infant Into SUV To Avoid Reposession

Classy-lady Crystal Gardner rushed from her Dallas home as a repo man was recovering her Ford Expedition. Thinking quickly, she tossed her 1-year-old infant into the back seat through the window before a 15-year-old associate came out with a shotgun.

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Strung-Out America Demands More Big SUVs, Ford Happy To Resupply

Ford announced yesterday that Dearborn intends to boost SUV production to support surging demand. Convince them to downsize? Nah, just feed their addiction to landbarges they don't need. Thank you, short-sighted American consumers, for your hard-earned monies. [Motor Trend]

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Ford Extending E85 Corn Goodness To E-Series, Navigator and Expedition

fordeseriesvan.jpgMore exciting action from the D.C Auto Show as Ford snuck some E85 news into the 2009 Ford Escape press release. The company's E-Series vans, Navigator and Expedition will be able to run on E85 fuel this year, which is good news for the small percentage of the people reading this that have access to the approximately…

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Detroit Auto Show: Funkmaster Flex Does Detroit, Talks Nano

funkmasteratdetroit.jpgOf all the musical celebrities that have shown up this week, Funkmaster Flex has to be our favorite. The black and red Ford Flexpedition outside let us know to be on alert for Flex and then, near VW, we found him. We know Flex knows his stuff, but we were shocked that he wanted to talk about the Tata Nano, the $2,500…

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Ford Continues To Flex: Funkmaster Flexpedition To Hit Showroom Floors

Funkmaster-Flex-Expedition-TOP.jpgNo, we're not kidding — no April Fool's Joke here — we think. It looks like Funkmaster Flex's Expedition he pimped out blinged out mutilated for last year's SEMA show will actually be hitting FoMoCo showroom floors near you as a limited edition 2008 model of the Big-UV. The ride will be built on the existing short…

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Ad Watch: Hachette Buff-Mag Intellectual Reacharound Further Engorges…

And now the trilogy of advertising semi-randomness from FoMoCo is complete. In many ways we're thinking this is the last salvo of the Ford marketing team's attempt to show Alan Mulally they're relevant. And if they failed at it in any way like the second to last salvo, it's not going to end very well at all. But we…

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Ad Watch: Ford Gives Chevy Suburban The Finger With New Expedition EL…

FoMoCo's dropped a blizzard of creative on us today and we're literally just trying to shovel our way through the mess of it as we speak. So we'll start off with the double shot of ads they're firing across the bow of the General's big-league profit-maker, the Chevy Suburban. True, the Expedition's already beating…

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Jalopnik Reviews: 2007 Ford Expedition EL, Part 3

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Why You Should Buy This Car: You're Mormon, have a Napoleon complex or travel with a posse. You subscribe to the belief that it's both about the size of the boat and the motion of the ocean. You crave the most comfortable way to get from A to B, not the quickest; your seven friends and their dogs feel the same way.…

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