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(car revving down the road)

- [Narrator] To me, driving is freedom.

Whether you're driving down the block,

or you wanna drive across the country,

you're in control of where you go.

That's why driving is important.

(car revving down the road)

This car, especially, because my aunt and uncle

purchased it new when I was a really small child.

I remember going for rides in it.

I used to love looking at this car,

and hearing it, and I dreamed

of someday owning it.

Took them a while, but eventually,

they did sell it to me.

The magic is still there when I walk up to this car.

I see that distinctive paint gleaming in the sun,

those chrome mag wheels ... opened the door,

climb inside, smell the vinyl interior.

It's the same cool car that I remember

from when I was a kid.

(pop music)

The color is called honey gold,

and I always likened this to one of my hot wheels

cars when I was a kid cause it

has that cool, kinda custom look to it.

Of course, it has a V-8 engine.

It's the four barrel version of the 289,

and my uncle put dual exhaust on almost right away,

so the rumble, and the sound, and the look

of this car all kinda went together

as my personal fantasy of a custom car.

(car speeding down the road)

(engine roaring)

What I love about driving this car,

particularly on a great, empty winding road is that

I feel like I'm really driving it.

I'm shifting the gears on the

four-speed manual transmission.

It's the sensation of driving it

and feeling like I'm connected to the road.

(car speeding down the roadway)

I remember getting one of my first stick-shift

lessons in this very car when I was 15,

and had my learner's permit. My uncle gave me

some lessons and he was pretty patient,

but I was horrible. We switched seats

and he said, "Let me show you how it's done."

He popped the clutch and he smoked that tire

all the way down the block.

(car engine roaring)

(car speeding down the road)

This is my uncle's pride and joy.

He took such good care of it, he was really good

about all the maintenance, things like oil changes.

When he finally sold it to me, I felt like

he was trusting me with his baby.

(car speeding down the highway)

This car is a connection to an earlier time

in my life when I was just in awe of cars.

It's a connection to my family and people

like my uncle who would teach me about cars.

My name is Dave Kunz and this, is why I drive.

For more infomation >> From back seat to driver's seat: Dave Kunz's '65 Ford Mustang | Why I Drive - Ep. 2 - Duration: 2:46.

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LEGO Speed Champions 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback review! 75884 - Duration: 8:36.

hello everyone this is the lego speed champions 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback Set

been looking forward to showing you this one I first want you to look at the car

with just one sticker on it I felt it was absolutely crucial to put that one

sticker on the front but otherwise leaving everything off helps you to see

the shape and the real build of the car which i think is actually really really

good and very accurate to the source material especially as viewed from the

side and from kind of the quarter angles I think as you get closer to straight on

or straight from the back you see just how narrow the dome is you know the

whole the whole roof section in the windscreen it's all four studs white

which is a major contrast against the six stud wide base but from most angles

I think it looks fantastic actually I could easily see rebuilding this without

the white pieces just replace those with green and black and you look like a

beautiful little slightly slightly modified Street car you know it's got

the little bit of hood bulge on there hood scoop which actually looks great

with that Nexo Knights shield insert piece having

the two openings at the front it almost looks like those are air inlets two

separate ones it's almost as if it was intentional I think that the designer

definitely thought of that and realized that upon trying it I think the shaping

around the front looks good the use of the newer style of fender that turns

under and doesn't go straight down at the widest points is crucial works out

great for this car will probably work out great for many other cars from this

era as well so much of this is done well oh yeah the logo on the back here that's

great that's not a sticker told you I put only one sticker on this that is a

print and they'll give you two of those in the set officially one but you know

it's a one by one piece a plate so they do give you spare that's

a that's a real treat to get that as a as a prince rather than a sticker

because you know they've been doing one by one stickers on a bunch of the cars

in the speed champions line but here they gave a sprint yeah yeah I don't

think Lego these days as a rule will do stickers for one by one round pieces at

least not anymore I've seen them do a lot of interesting one-off or limited

production prints for those but before I put the stickers back on we just open

this up let you see that this has the tan interior and just the brown seat no

console or anything but just a steering wheel it is a little bit open towards

the rear which lets you see inside there a bit I don't mind it I think it's okay

alright I'll put the stickers on so yeah it's it's not entirely transformative

but I felt that the the stripes and the extra graphics kind of distracted a bit

from shape but these are pretty tasteful they went for a an old classic Trans Am

kind of kind of suggestion of of graphics here and I think they did a

pretty good job nice choices of colors through and through for the whole thing

well the plastic pieces and with the stickers you know ideally the number of

plates on the sides would have been set up in you know nice circles also instead

but I much prefer having the actual build there I have no problem with that

and stripes do go across the roof pretty well not too bad there I like what

they've done on the hood as well big ole a Lego logo they will Ford logo as well

I like the the other like the speed champions and the clutch on stickers

there those are nicely vintage of fide yeah not bad like this I just personally

really like having the option to leave the stickers off especially for a

classic car like this and would have been just perfect if they'd

also included parts to replace these three on each side so that you could

take the the white out and leave the stickers off most of the stickers off if

you want and have a different look instead we get this as the side build

and I don't know this one doesn't really do much for me some of the side bills

that they've done even when they're really small if they have if they have

like a start/finish line set up or a little bit of side of the track a little

bit of berm or something you know those are cool

I appreciate the Ford logo there this does look like it could add something to

a scene if you don't think about it much but if you think about it I mean what is

it trying to show you there is it 94 0.53 seconds quarter-mile what's with

the quarter mile this is a road chorus car not a drank car I don't I just don't

see much value in this personally the driver once again gets the tan

vintage racing suit with print only for the torso and for the face that is

printed on the front and the back I think it looks pretty good especially

from a little bit of distance up this close you see the major difference in in

contrast and I think also the sharpness of the black red blue lines versus the

brown that's in there that Browns just a little bit fuzzy relatively looks really

nice and sharp and consistent around the back and there's what that one face

looks like which is pretty cool good little set definitely clearly made with

a lot of love and some some solid teamwork back and forth a lot of

communication between Lego and Ford and or at least one classic car enthusiasts

probably classic Ford Racing enthusiasts because the combinations of things that

were put together here with the colors the style of the striping with the

wheels also the hood bulge that's probably from a different spec of car

just feels like they brought a few different classic

Mustangs into a single car here and they did it very tastefully and that's that's

not easy to do it I'm not sure it's possible to do that without really

knowing what you're doing without at least doing some research if not having

some true experience with the subject matter obviously a lot of people are

going are going to easily make the parallel between this car especially

with the the green it was a Highland green I think they called it and the

Steve McQueen Bullitt car this is just another similar similar car I think just

a customer car but you can't really make it fully dream without doing a lot of

heart replacements and actually beneath the hood bulge they're bulging or

scooped there are some more pieces that need to be replaced so if you want to go

full on that route do expect to spend some money on brick link but as I showed

I think it looks really good just leaving almost all the stickers off

however I do strongly recommend and wish they had included replacements of parts

to to take the rest of the white out of the number of plates on the sides and

then you get a really nice classic like modded Street model and it's still even

even even having to replace those parts if you want or even not replacing them I

still think it's a really really good little set and I appreciate what went

into it so there you go my thoughts on this set you've seen what it looks like

now I'm gonna move on thanks for watching I'll talk to you soon

you

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2014 Ford F-150 XLT 4x4 SuperCrew Cab Walk Around - Duration: 2:44.

This is a 2014 f-150 XLT and my name is Robert Woolner and this is Cavalcade

Right here we got a ruby red paint tri-coat color 17" alloy wheels, all-season tires.

Its got an ecoboot engine in it so 365lbs. horsepower 420lbs torque.

capable of this particular one of 9600 pounds inside we got a bench seat and notice how it does

have storage in here flips up and underneath is more storage as well this

these cupholders slides in and out it has a USB port line in obviously

equipped with your SYNC which is you could download your contacts and

Bluetooth media you have your trailer brake controller built in has cruise

control 4 high 4 low back up sensors which I'll show you in a sec here this

this is a crew cab so in its class has more about six inches more room than any other truck in

its class so you notice the space flat flat loading floor these seats fold down

nice and nice and flat

So this a 5 1/2ft. box equipped with a tailgate step.

So its an unshockable tailgate here but you can open up this step. Flip it open like this.

Opens up, easy access, there's no back-breaking work loading into the box here.

and tie-downs all throughout the box. Guys see how easy that is?

these are really tough like this truck is built to withstand a lot of abuse so

you also got easy fuel so filling up the vehicle there's capless on those

long road trips there worries about forgetting the cap. Door codes you can

enter the vehicle without a key very handy when you lock your keys in your

car or you have to grab something out of the house & you don't have your keys.

light come on automatically

fog lights and brightness your dash, it's a beautiful rig come on down and check it

out it's only got around 70,000 kilometers on it so it's good pick for

you

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SALES TALES - GM's FEAT, FORD TOP MARQUE - Automotive News TV/Videos - Duration: 5:48.

gm's rise Jeeps fall in banishing vans thanks so much for stopping by on this

Monday us light vehicle sales slip just 1.8 percent in 2017 and the day halted

the streak of consecutive annual gains at 7:00 but these are still good times

and we've got some additional 17 sales stats for those of you keeping score at

home let's begin with a rare market share gained for General Motors the

company's share climbed to seventeen point four percent last year from

seventeen point three percent in 2016 the lift marks only the fourth time the

figure has increased since 1990 meantime crosstown rival Ford won the

title of best selling us brand for the eighth year in a row over two Jeep it's

sales dropped 11% last year however the decline had more to do with Fiat

Chrysler avoiding daily rental sales than consumers giving up on SUVs in fact

the Grand Cherokee and Wrangler held their own

despite aging designs to sister brand Chrysler 17 marked their first full year

of pacifica sales however industry-wide minivan volume dipped below 1/2 million

for the first time since 2011 sales of the Toyota Sienna Honda Odyssey Kia

Sedona and Nissan Quest all declined finally a small victory in 17 compact

cars outsold midsize cars for the first time you can find more in our sales

scorecard at Auto news.com

Volkswagen of America saying today that duncanm of asaji will replace Ron stock

is senior vice president of US sales effective February first

mobis achi most recently was managing director of VW's sibling Skoda brand in

the UK the 49 year old stock left January 4th

to quote pursue other career opportunities Mazda North America has

promoted 60-year old gym leave light to the newly created role of executive vice

president Hill also continued to serve as chief financial officer in his new

role lavoy will oversee sales service and

marketing and sales operations for Mazda Ford CEO Jim Hackett has made good on a

promise to visit employees at the automakers Chicago assembly and stamping

plants Friday's visit followed a December New York Times report that the

plants did not respond adequately to complaints of sexual harassment Hackett

had issued an open letter apologizing for the situation saying he intended to

visit for it says Hackett held discussions with plant leaders walked

the factory floor and interacted with employees

the automaker adding quote these buildings are filled with good people

but it is our collective responsibility to create safe and inclusive workplaces

caught with less camo during winter testing the upcoming mid-engine

Chevrolet Corvette gave up some important hints as to its design for one

the new vets rear features four rounded square exhaust pipes on either side of a

lower vent that's a big difference from the c6 and c7 generations of the sports

car which have exhaust pipes in the center meanwhile Automotive News has

learned fresh and versions of two mini models will be unveiled next week at the

Detroit Auto Show our Amy Wilson reports mini will take the wraps off an updated

three door hardtop and convertible those vehicles plus the five-door Hart

we'll get light styling changes and improve technology and crews are busy

making final preparations for the Detroit Auto Show our China Hayley has

more now from Cobo Center setup is well underway here on the show floor and

while we didn't buy any vehicles under wraps

one automakers display did catch our eye and left us asking what's behind the

curtain from Chevrolet and Kia to Cadillac and

Toyota reporters were given an early look at

what most automakers are planning for this year's Detroit Auto Show during a

walk-around of the show floor at Cobo today all but one automaker Ford had

their displays in full view so what's behind the big black curtain and locked

door nice chairman Ryan la Fontaine says it remains a mystery for now Ford won't

tell us what they're doing they're keeping it a nice secret why not

obviously keep everyone just at breath waiting so there's a lot of fun you got

the Hyundai Veloster coming I mean there's there's so many reveals can't

label them all but every manufacturer has a lot of exciting things that are

coming that really are great and a lot of different confidence for a truck and

car of the year so it's gonna be fun to see

meantime Ford is expected to reveal its ranger midsize pickup added Sunday night

press conference however we'll have to wait and see what Ford has up its sleeve

during press preview days here at Cobo next week for auto news now I'm Chyna

Haley thanks so much Chyna have a great day everyone we'll see you tomorrow