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As far as modern wagons go, I found the recent Volvo V90 quite attractive.

Call me old fashioned, but as much as I like two-tone exteriors, I don't like all those colors and stripes. Looks like a basketball shoe.

By far, the sexiest wagon since the CTS-V Wagon.

Very slick! Very nice! Straight to my wagon lovin' heart!

Loving the G90 Wingback profile. OK, sent ya the PDF files, so you do not have to figure out installing the 7zip software to open the file. This is awesome

One of my sister’s friends has gone overboard with white. Both her Michigan lake house and Florida house are all white inside, walls, kitchen, white carpet, white furniture, white trim, white dog…a bit much IMO.

Over the last six years or so, I have slowly grown my Vinyl collection. This project was an effort to preserve my vinyl playing ways after the original 50 year amp gave out and I could not find a replacement anywhere on earth lol. Here's some other pics of the progress over the last week or so... After gutting it, I installed some wood slats. For the record, nothing was cut away from the cabinet itself. I steed away all the original components in case I ever come across another OEM amp for it. The only change to the cabinet itself was the paint and stain job. After that, I set did a little "switcharoo" with some old school Sony floor speakers that were put into storage due to a pair of blown passive woofers (top speakers in them were active woofers with the bottom being the passive woofers). I combined the working woofers into a single cabinet and cut out two holes on one end to install the mid and tweeter from "gutted" floor speaker cabinet. Then that was installed through the back of the console and it barely fit lol. Here's the rest of the work.

Genesis needs to build a G60 sedan based on the Ioniq 6. I really like everything about the Ioniq 6 except its rather spartan interior.

I am saddened. Loved him as an actor. There was also a crime thriller movie with Wesley Snipes and Sean Connery that he did. Rising Sun.

While him being good looking is a factor, this feels like a French Revolution type thing. Health Insurance companies are largely evil and people know it. They literally continued the meeting after the CEO got shot, that's how heartless they are.

Met this critter on a ride... Trolls at the Hike at the NC Asheville Arboretum

Yes, moderation is a challenge for this foodie. I love to cook, have learned to moderate how much I eat as I gotten older.

I learn from my failures and push to be better.

For me, cooking is a very trying and traumatic experience. LOL.

Much appreciated, wow the big 58, was up late last night cooking Pies, we have Pumpkin, Pumpkin / Cream Cheese, Pecan, and Apple pies to feed the mob coming for lunch today. Back to the cooking grind. Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours.

Very cool Graphite package with blue interior. https://carbuzz.com/genesis-g70-prestige-graphite/

That green Genesis wagon is gorgeous... would love to see a Cadillac sport wagon again.

Wow, love the green 💚 color, love the wagon format, now they just need to make it in EV powertrain. Genesis Might Actually Put the G90 Wingback into Production https://share.google/rQ5oMORyJGX6jfo2d

Yeah, I like natural woods where possible..not too dark and gloomy. Brick or stonework around fireplaces (not painted!)... the whole paint everything shades of gray or black aesthetic is so not me. I also don't like everything bright white..the hospital aesthetic isn't for me either. Or austere unfinished concrete walls..I've seen that in some modern design houses, hideous IMO.

Here's how I roll on this: Parchment colored (warm color palette) wall paint, white raised panel doors and white baseboard, white ceiling, wood flooring or tan colored deep pile carpeting depending on the room, and mill work in kitchens, bathrooms, and niches, if you have any, in a medium shade like maple or thereabouts. I like a warm color palette and wood stains throughout a dwelling to make it feel homey. Eternal and safe - may not be the trendiest, but won't jump out as out of style, either.

Random thought: I cannot stand kitchen or bathroom millwork painted in battleship gray or "distressed" nautical blue

GM's Ultium formerly known as, is actually a 400V system. The Chevy EV pick-up truck, the Hummer EV and the Escalade are dual 400V set-ups working in tandem to emulate a 800V set-up. I guess the way the battery packs are set-up in that truck platform. The batteries stacked up one on top of the other. Amongst other things, I suppose. The other Ultium platformed EVs with the single battery pack is just a 400V set-up. But I also read somewhere that GM has an 800V successor platform ready to go on sale in China right now. But is stalling due to reasons. Stalling here and there... Rumours and/or disinformation it could be though.

Ford's aluminum supplier burnt down. They don't have enough aluminum to build the gas F-150 at current demand. They make more profit on the gas model than the EV model. Additionally, it is getting left behind in tech by GM and Tesla (though both with their own baggage). It charges slower and has a lower range than either of those. It is a FANTASTIC EV, but buyers need to be able to live with those limitations, and that's a hard sell when the Chevy dealer next door has a truck with the same size bed that goes twice as far and charges twice as fast. For someone like my mom who doesn't do road trips and could plug in every night, the F-150 EV would be the perfect replacement for her old old King Ranch.

Sometimes, when the $25 1972 console stereo you bought four years ago finally dies, you have to change it up a bit. Before and after below.

I also saw another interview with him, he still goes to the gym 3 days a week and attributes staying mentally young to his 54yr old wife and that he sings every day still. He said he still has so much to do and learning and being active is important as he wants to live another 100 years. He says death starts when you stop moving as he can tell if he misses going every other day to the gym, he stiffens up and has a harder time moving around.

A bunch of Asian and Hawaiian, probably quie a few with black DNA. Not a whole lot of black folk in Hawaii....but California...I bet so.

Good grief. Being that the CTS wagon was last made in 2014, this Genesis had better trump it lol. "Style" is a relative term anyway. That aside, I want it. I still want the CTS-V Wagon as well.

@Robert Hall I asked https://deepimg.io/ to create a Blackwing wagon based on the CT6 Blackwing sedan. Got this!

Perhaps Central Cadillac is part of a bigger automotive ownership group that owns multiple brands, including an Infiniti dealership, and on cost cutting measures, just uses one generic 'thank-you' card with just one picture on it, that Infiniti coupe, and distributes this one generic 'thank-you' card to all of its customers regardless what vehicle they happen to drive?

Except on the Mercury Sable, it ACTUALLY looked good. Imagine that light bar with LEDs... I also like the Pontiac Grand Prix too. But modern cars though, I think Lucid does it best. Because you cannot tell its there. The stainless trim camouflages it. But its there alright!!! And even at night, its subtle. And I like how LUCID lights up But its overplayed, I agree.

Janitors like that piss me off as they are just freaking LAZY!

Exterior was Gemini Nano Banana 2, but then it hallucinated on the third picture and used up my free tokens. ChatGPT did the interior.

I think that interior is a little too close to the original HI6, but it's a step in the right direction

Yes, and sometimes I miss my voluminous Greg Brady hair that went with that V8 engine. I still have it, but it doesn't look anything like that!

Some days I miss being a young man, that was very much part of it. And will continue to do so. That and E bikes, E lawn mowers, E snow blowers. In Ohio, I work in facilities for a university. We got rid of our gas powered snow blowers and got electric ones. Much quieter, never fail to start on a cold morning, no explosive gas sitting around, don't need to keep a bunch of gas on hand for them, lighter, cleaner (no grease or oil, etc.) Amazon around here is all E delivery vehicles. The paradigm shift is happening, and we see this overseas on other markets, where electric cars are rapidly replacing EV's. This is why I see the demise of domestics (among other issues). When the inevitable happens and the US and Canada do open the door to Chinese EV's, they will be so far ahead of what US automakers are making that it will be like watching the typewriter business or the buggy business go away as the new technology rushes in like a flood.

Thanks for this link. Very well written, detailed, chronological enough, and interesting. This is about how I understand it. The psychological twists and turns are going to be important. There will be a lot for psychological experts to chew on that we're not (yet) privy to.

The inline 6 in these are insanely good. I dont get why Toyo fanboys didnt appreciate this engine. Its everything they ever wanted in a Supra. A relatively light inline 6 that makes great stock power but is tune-able and hotrod-able to make INSANE but reliable horsepower with ease. Im a big fan of both BMW and Toyota version's style. Long hood/short deck styling is spot on and both cars have a unique look to them. The BMW looks like an evolution of past Z4s and the newest generations were good looking cars. The 1st gen no so much but that was also 20 plus years ago. The Supra has an acquired taste look about it, but BECAUSE it looks like no other car on the road, past or present, I LOVE it. Especially in today's world full of shytty CUVs/SUVs and dull retro muscle cars. Yeah sure, I die on the Challenger Hellcat hill and I fight alongside my confreres Mustang and Camaro on that hill, one has to admit that the muscle car retro looks is waaaaaaay past the expiration date. And what @Drew Dowdell said. Fantastic drivers. Sporty and fun. Not much that is offered today could be said that is sporty and fun. Honda Civic Si and its Acura brother. Toyota Corolla GR. What else is there really?

@A Horse With No Name @oldshurst442 You guys are correct, cycle of take off and landing more than age. I should have expanded myself as my brother inlaw is a manager at Boeing with many patents for his specialty which is the airplane engines on the 737, 757, 777, 787 and the king 747. He has stated that the force of the engines cause fatigue in ALL aircrafts that hit 10 years and depending on the flying they have done, passenger versus freight, while a plane can go 20 or 30 years, many should have a very close inspection at 10 years for corrosion, metal fatigue, etc. Could be one reason some airline companies retire their aircraft after 10 years rather than continue to fly them. Many things make up the age of an aircraft and years is only 1 little part of it, Force makes up a much bigger part. Thank you for pointing out what I failed to expand on in my original post.

My thanksgiving dinner.

It's that I don't like being in the kitchen, minding the sequences, buying and stocking up on ingredients. I never got into it when I should have. On the other hand, if I liked my own cooking, I might have a problem on my hands!

Pretty soon everything will have 1,000 hp.

LOL I have ZERO empathy for these Idiots. Trump Supporter Speaks Out as Inflation and Unrest Deepen, Says, “I’m Waiting for Him To…”

Persimmon metallic - translation: rust metallic Cutlass Salon Canyon Copper metallic Cutlass S Spectre Blue metallic Cutlass Supreme This is when I got smitten with automobiles, so it's no surprise I remember the exact names of these Oldsmobile colors. This was my favorite car. How I'd like to have one of these today!

So much going on, Idiot47 calling for the execution of people that disagree with how he is doing things, this is all so pathetic. As we enter our Thanksgiving week, I am very humble for the friends that I have here at C&G and yes that even includes the ones I disagree with on various topics and debate with be you in the U.S. or out of the U.S. I wish you all a relaxing, enjoyable time with family and friends for your Thanksgiving Day. I have one wish and that is for the following as we go into the end of the year and Xmas season. I hope that we can get past sooner rather than later Dumb Dirty Donald and Flamboyant Hollywood Gavin and get a "We the People" President that understands that regardless of your conservative or liberal leanings, we are one country of multi-cultural people and like everyone other than the 1% crowd, we have to live within a balanced budget. Bring the house and senate together to work as they are supposed to represent the people and not the 1%. Balance tariffs for those things that truly are being made under the cost of the current industry still producing manufactured goods in the U.S. and drop all the rest for things that are no longer made or available here. Support the medical insurance for all, stop borrowing against Social Security. Focus on supporting job growth in new industries and not destroying billion-dollar investments trying to live in the past. May you all have a wonderful holiday week or relaxing week if out of the U.S.

While both my kids are into this black / industrial grey color palette, they grew up in a very warm home as all our furniture is natural dark oak, tan colored carpets and I even let them choose the paint color for their rooms kind of, which my son went with industrial grey for an accent wall, but the rest I painted warm white. Daughter went with a gold accent wall. So, the whole black / grey thing was never a big part of their life, so must be a younger person's rebellion thing maybe. Over all, the trend to have all fake wood floors which I find very cold is also not me, plush carpet and a proper quality rubber matt below the carpet as we sit on the ground Asian style allot. So warm and comfy.

Democrat, republican or independent; jail them and let them starve to death.

I would have to imagine gen2 would be on its own bespoke platform, like the GM counterparts. I'd also REALLY hope they're smart enough to give it the best technology available with at least an 800v system. In all fairness, I don't believe there was an 800v EV out when the Lightning first debuted back in 2021. Before even submitting the comment I had to look up the first 800v EV and it was the Taycan in 2018. I know for sure it wasn't common back then.

For your purposes, this would be more than enough. BUT it won't play most games because it's an ARM processor instead of an x86. That said, for all of your regular "office" type work, it will be snappier than anything else at this price point. And it has the 10-key. Don't get me wrong, it's a cheap laptop, but it will be a great performing cheap laptop. https://www.costco.com/p/-/lenovo-ideapad-slim-3x-153-touchscreen-copilot-pc-laptop-qualcomm-snapdragon-x-wuxga-1920x1200-windows-11-home-16gb-ram-1tb-ssd/4000379412?langId=-1

Good morning ... You don't know who that is? He (later) had a face that looked like a coin.

Oh geeze. That's too old. It's a 4th Gen Intel and 7th Gen is the bare minimum. Bumping that up to 16 gb of ram might perk it up a bit, (1 or 2 of these https://amzn.to/3WSsFdn) but it would be a temporary fix. I don't think I could get 11 running on that. Linux Mint instead of Windows might be tolerable on it, but it would only be for web browsing and document editing, nothing more. Sadly, the best way forward is to wipe it and retire it. My 7th Gen that I hacked to get Win11 working on just barely runs it.