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    • Drew Dowdell
      Starter Car?

      By Drew Dowdell · Posted

      There's not a lot of choices for RWD in the big family sedan space. Charger, 300C, Town Car, Crown Vic, or if you go a lot older, Impala, Roadmaster, Fleetwood. Crown Vics and Town Cars really don't have the performance to be doing sideways stuff. Charger/300 with a Hemi is your best bet for that.  I wouldn't want to see you doing that with the Roadmaster / Fleetwood.  They have the ability, but they're classics now and should be preserved.  Outside of that you're looking at Germans (too expensive to maintain) or Lexus / Infiniti. 
    • Drew Dowdell
      Ford News: Ford F-150 Lightning Goes EREV with 700+ Mile Range and Locomotive-Like Towing

      By Drew Dowdell · Posted

      I'm probably going to be traveling more often for work again.  I've done it in Teslas before, so I know that 250kw would be okay.  The Silverado EV does still have CarPlay... if you get the W/T trim.  I'm not a W/T kinda gal. RST or Trail Boss (or High Country if they made one) for me and they don't get CarPlay.  The only Silverado EVs that look any good to me are the RSTs in Blue or Black. The Red Trail Boss is... okay.  In white, they look like an electric company fleet vehicle. All of the Denali EVs seem to be in Military Gray Metalic that looks blah.  I really don't know where I want to go. I am going to try and hang onto my Avalanche regardless. I think I'll end up regretting it if I sold it.  Part of me also thinks just get something like an Ioniq 6 or GV60 for myself to put business miles on and put the Avalanche into storage.  The Lyriq has really grown on me (it still has CarPlay). It might be an option once we replace the 300C. We just passed 100k miles there. His job situation is still in limbo. It could go to where he is 100% public transit or 75% travel requiring a vehicle.... so still waiting on that. We find out by July.  
    • ccap41
      Random Thoughts Thread

      By ccap41 · Posted

      While I think the Luce looks pretty damn bad, I don't think a Crown comparison makes a whole lot of sense, imo.  I feel like it wasn't all that long ago that Ferrari stated they'd never make an SUV and never make an EV. Look where we are know...  Things like the Luce are why it wouldn't take a whole lot to convince me that automakers are deliberately making EVs look horrendous so when they don't sell they can say, "see, nobody wants EVs." It also just isn't impressive technology-wise. It charges as quick as a Silverado EV and Kia EV# (along with anything else that charges at 350kw) and it's no quicker than a Lucid and not even THAT much quicker than a Hummer EV. Oh yeah, it also has a pretty crap range. It just isn't impressive in any way. 
    • ccap41
      Ford News: Ford F-150 Lightning Goes EREV with 700+ Mile Range and Locomotive-Like Towing

      By ccap41 · Posted

      I do definitely agree there. 150kw max charging certainly isn't great, although I'd try and never publicly charge to make that a near-never issue.    You're the one who kept telling me that the Silverado EV still had CarPlay...  If I had the monies, I'd love to go the Scout route. I think they look so damn good. I've seen a handful of Silverado EVs and they just don't do anything for me. I want to like them because technologically they are so damn good, but I can't get past their aesthetics. The same goes for the Blazer EV. I want to like it. It does what I want and has the technology that would suit my, but I just can't get past how it looks. 
    • crvette_guy
      Starter Car?

      By crvette_guy · Posted

      I don't know why i didn't consider that it had fwd

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