Ford Motor Company > Car Talk Takes an Excursion - Funny :D!

By now, you have probably heard about Fords new behemoth sport utility vehicle, the Excursion. Now, Ford has taken a lot of grief lately due to the vehicle's size. The Sierra Club even dubbed it the Ford *Valdez.* To be fair, Ford points out that its customers want such vehicles, and that they've worked hard to minimize the Excursions emissions. That seems to be true. But we couldn't help providing our instantaneous *Car Talk Translation* of Ford's announcement. With apologies to Bill Ford Jr. -- and our own legal team for the extra hours they will be putting in this week--Car Talk is pleased to help Ford introduce the new Ford Excursion: FORD: Large payload capacity--up to one ton. TRANSLATION: And it holds nine people, so each of them can weigh up to 225 pounds. Or, five mothers-in-law at 400 pounds each. It's your call. FORD: Up to 10 cup holders and five power points. TRANSLATION: Just you try to drink that much coffee. We don't know what power points are, either, but some junior ad writer came up with the phrase and we kept it because we thought it sounded impressive.