MotorMouths

The 2011 Ford Super Duty is a powerful tool, and for many customers, the most expensive tool in box — hitting $40,000 easily. These pickups won’t shy away from any work, they relish it.

It’s big and brawny and classy and fun. The Super Duty, in any size or configuration, may be a work truck but it’s also a pleasure to drive.

One way Ford may convince truck buyers to jump into these new F-150 trucks with an EcoBoost V-6 is the same way it is convincing me: Let them drive it. The near-instantaneous torque on this truck approaches unreal.

The 2011 Ford Fiesta is more than a top-notch subcompact. It’s a good car through and through. It just happens to simply be the best one available with a starting price tag under $14,000.

The 2012 Ford Focus is the complete package: Exciting exterior, premium interior and top-notch performance. Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne builds the single best compact car in the world.

It’s the fully loaded, high tech, ultimate compact car on the road. There may be other compact cars that are cheaper with similar features, but even higher-end luxury compact cars don’t match a fully loaded Focus Titanium.

The scary-quiet 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid can hit 47 mph on electric power only and drive more than 700 miles on a single tank of fuel.

No matter how much I drove the 2012 Mustang Boss 302, I was never satisfied. I only wanted more.

You can still call the V-6 Mustang a chic car, Mustang Lite or anything else you can dream up, but it will knock your Piloti racing shoes into a ditch if you’re not paying attention. It can pass you on a mountain road, on the highway and at the gas station.

It doesn’t take very long behind the wheel of this classic modern car to come up with three words of your own concerning the 2011 Mustang GT: I want one.

The wind in your face, the stomach-dropping acceleration, the screams around the bend — the GT500 can leave your heart racing as you pull into your driveway. With this car, there’s a thrill, a sense of danger that few others even come close to offering.

In a parking lot full of big crossovers with ho-hum looks, the Acadia Denali arrives looking for a fight. One that it will most likely win.