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2002 Ford E150 Traveler Edition (like the earlier Chateau models)
193,xxx miles
5.4L Triton V8
Leather seating for seven (2 front row bucket seats, 2 second row bucket seats, 3 third row bench seat)
VCR and flip down LCD monitors (factory setup not aftermarket)
$2500

Here's the deal with the van. I like to buy cars, selling not so much. It's fun to have a different car often and hunt a for a deal. I bought this vehicle on eBay last year. I paid $3050 for it November 2013.

Buying cars this way means I almost never have any service records or history to them. This van is no exception. From the basic looks of it it has been maintained, interior and exterior very clean for the age and mileage of the vehicle. Does has some rust on some lower points as noted in the pictures, certainly not as bad as some I have seen or even owned. (Had a 1995 E350)

All I can do is show you pictures of the van and tell you about my time with it. I've driven it around 3000 miles (it's a second vehicle), towed 1500 pounds of scrap metal, and camped in for a couple nights. When you take out the rear bench I have a perfect sized mattress that fits in there. It makes camping out very comfortable.

I've changed the oil, replaced the fuel filter, and replaced the cylinder five ignition coil (had a slight hesitation). That's all I've needed to do for maintenance in the time I've had it. Drives great, shifts great.

So as with any vehicle that's 12 years old it's got some quirks.
1. Wheel weights have come off the right front wheel, no problem around town but around 70+mph on the highway you get a little shake.
2. Rear door handle is missing one nut/bolt combo, still works fine.
3. Side door doesn't always unlock with the power locks, something is rattling in the door, this was like it when I bought the van.
4. Outside temp / compass display (overhead) is not working.

The rest is evident with the pictures, a couple dents in the rear bumper, the small sections of rust, and the tiny split in the driver's side front seat.

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Between a bevvy of spy shots, speculative renders and insidery images from the halls of Car and Driver, we've got a pretty decent idea of what the 2015 Ford Mustang might look like. Still, we're excited to see the real deal as soon as possible.
Turns out that Ford has told us just when that first official look might come, too, although it has chosen somewhat of a backdoor fashion for dropping the news.
The video below popped up on the Ford Mustang YouTube channel this morning, promoting a social media effort called #MustangInspires on. The video and hashtag ask fans of the pony car to share pictures of the car - or "photographic stories of inspiration" - on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc. But the truly interesting part of the video description is that which mentions taking "the cover off the all-new Mustang" on December 5. Consider our calendars marked.

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This week, thousands of United Auto Workers will converge on Cobo Center in Detroit for the Special Convention on Collective Bargaining, an every-four-year event that lets members tell UAW leaders what the negotiating priorities should be during contract negotiations. This is where a lot of sand and a lot of lines start coming together in preparation for contract negotiations between the UAW and the Detroit 3 automakers, which will happen later this year. Number one on the UAW agenda is the end of the two-tier wage system created in 2007 to help the automakers get through bankruptcy; veteran workers are paid the Tier 1 rate of around $29.00 per hour, new hires are paid the Tier 2 rate of between $15 and $20 and get about half the benefits of Tier 1. Tier 2 hiring has been an undoubted success for the automakers, allowing them to keep factories in the US and hire more workers. By agreement, it is capped at a certain percentage of each automaker's workforce, and while the union's ultimate position is to get rid of the dual-scale system entirely; one leader said Ford could easily afford the $335 million it would take to convert all its workers to Tier 1 out of its $6.9 billion in 2014 North American profit, and General Motors could do the same out of the $5 billion it is handing to investors through the (admittedly forced) share buyback. Other delegates say that at the very least they'd be happy with enforcement of the current caps in the new contract. The automakers, conversely, would welcome expansion of the Tier 2 ranks. Including benefits, import automakers pay workers "in the high $40 range" per hour, according to an analyst, while Ford and GM pay about $59 in wages and benefits per hour. More Tier 2 workers on the rolls would let those two companies get labor cost parity with the competition. Fiat-Chrysler pays wages closer to the imports because of special exceptions in its UAW contract that allow unlimited Tier 2 hiring; those exceptions will end on September 14 and bring FCA into line with the other domestics, unless the new contract maintains them. FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne is opposed to the two-tier system, having called it "almost offensive." One analyst says the UAW might win a sizable pay raise for Tier 2 and a small increase for Tier 1, but the keystone issue will be how the hiring matrix can help the automakers keep overall wages in line with the imports.

STUDY: Ford owns brand loyalty in 2009; Scorned Saturn, Pontiac buyers will look outside of GM

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Ford buyers appear to love their cars more than customers of any other automotive brand, returning back to the American automaker when it comes time to purchase their next vehicle. According to a study by Experian Automotive, six of the top 10 vehicles for customer brand loyalty wear badges from the Blue Oval. That includes the Ford Fusion (62.4 percent), Ford Edge (57.9 percent), Ford Five Hundred/Taurus (56 percent), Ford Freestyle (51.9 percent), Ford Escape (49.4 percent) and the Ford Focus (47.57 percent).
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