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I had a random thought when I saw a Yukon Denali pass me on the opposite side of the street today... I was stunned to realize how phoquing huge that Yukon grill is. Then I started laughing hysterically all by myself thinking about it.

..nobody really has electrics ready for the market..

BLS = Bullsh!t Luxury Sedan

I thought you are an engineer. Speed of sound is 767mph. No Harley rides at that speed So they can be heard way ahead of their arrival even though pipes are pointed backwards. The fact that they are louder when they get closer is attenuation of the waves in medium. The change in pitch is Doppler effect. Come on man, you can do better than that!

How they claim that the cheapest iPhone is $1149 when iPhone XR is $750? Today's journalism at its best. But I agree, there is very little innovation last few years and people will keep their phones longer. Samsung has cheap phones for countries where people can't afford expensive, top of the line technology phones. I wonder though how much profit Samsung can get selling these phones.

At this point now I will be surprised if there is a nex gen challnger. or maybe it goes back to front drive! R/T! Turismo! GLH! Shelby! The market is not driving these changes, it is outside forces. I like electrics but it is now starting to get forced down our throats. should compete well with the next Camaro! inspired by citation X11! Front drive, electric option and look at the improved visibility! just what everyone is asking for!

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Head of FoMoCo, Farley Granger or whatever, has CONFIRMED a pickup truck smaller than Ranger is coming to America! This is GREAT NEWS! ?‍♂️ FORD COURIER FTW!!!

Proof that Hybrid and EV drive trains can be a part of our enthusiast future.

This is most likely going to be just the eTorque system which doesn't add much in the way of power, but gains you efficiency in other ways.

Here we go again comparing new vs used and apples vs oranges ...

Which is excusable if the STi is a cheaper product with a better price-performance quotient. But, BOTH cars are basically priced at $40K.

Apple is in the same problem any lopsided market mix companies have. They didn't realize that the iPhone is the only product that people will buy independent of their respective ecosystem of tech. I have an iPhone, a Windows laptop, an Android tablet and a soon to be repurposed old PC to be turned into a Neverware Chromium - Linux based cloud PC. I have it all. But I mostly use GApps. Now if you have an iPhone you have options. It introduces people to Apple. If you have a Macbook tho - you want an iPhone. If you have a Mac, you want an iPhone. If you don't buy an iPhone, you won't buy a Macbook. Period. So that's the thing. Their golden goose needs to be the best of the best. The standard of the world. Hmmmm where have I heard that before? Their new 'notch & science' theme... Blah blah blah

I agree that loud pipes don't necessarily save lives.... but they don't cost lives either. NO one hears a Harley and then swerves into a tree.

I'm all in favor of the EV option in bikes, but "loud pipes cost lives" just isn't true. I think an electric bike would be fun to ride. I want just a bit more range on them though. I'll be going for a gasser BMW or Kawasaki for my first bike. Well, I have Zero for you then...

For Demon to destroy Tesla you need to put those funny little wheels on the front, change computer and put in it 100 octane gas. I don't think it can destroy Tesla in a street form.

The extra length really helps.* *that's what she said.

Again you keep repeating this and other falsehoods. First warning. There is nothing left of the original LX platform. The 5-speed automatic is gone, the interior trim pieces have been replaced, the rear differential and suspension setup are all replaced. All of this is researchable by you even if you don't believe what we've been telling you for a long time now.

Apple's real problem is that they are pricing themselves out of the market when everyone else is offering models under $500. I read an article where Apple had sold leftover stock of the iPhone SE for $249 brand new and they sold out within three days. At a time where smartphones are ubiquitous and more people are getting their smartphone repaired rather than replaced, Apple chose a poor time to have a new phone START at $750 and up. When I replaced my iPhone back in June, I picked up the 8 Plus rather than the iPhone X because the 8+ still has a few features that the X did not have. . . . and I saved some serious cash doing just that. If the XR started at $500 and they kept making the SE at $250, Apple would not be in so much sales trouble. Then again, Apple seems to expects all the services that come with an iPhone to buoy them in case iPhone sales really fall off a cliff.

This is all assuming that FCA will have money to do things like this, with the start of a larger sales decline.... I just don’t see the money there-I see a future for some electric Jeeps, and a phase out of dodge with special editions on it’s way out....

Tesla Model S is on the same wheelbase as a Challenger, but weighs 700lbs more. Plus, center of gravity has little to no bearing on acceleration. EV-ing a Demon will very likely make it slower, not quicker. I agree that there is room for both types of motivation. But all the talk about banning IC is nonsense we won't see in our lifetimes. Was reading elsewhere about Tesla & VW, and how VW (and others) may surpass Tesla. It mentioned VW's claim that it would introduce 50 EV models in a short span. Why do journalists just lap PRs up like unvarnished truth?? It's like a kid assuring you Santa Claus is real. VW sold 42,xxx Golfs in 2018. Know how many were the e-Golf? 1,385. I guarantee you VW will back away from their proclamation; they cannot survive the resulting plunging sales volume.

You glossed over the part where I said "already destroys".

I am sure for the right price Mercedes will sell them a mid 2000s E-class platform if they want something newer. That LX platform is way dated now, they have to do something, and Giorgio is a good platform I don’t see why they couldn’t just use that. As far as electrification goes, Tesla is now American muscle, though not a muscle car, the American performance car is a Tesla. Especially with the new roadster that “will accelerate at the limit of what humans can withstand “ and do 250 mph.

People are just trading their devices less often. This is going to be just as true for Samsung, but Samsung is much more diversified than Apple.

It is built on the only new transverse platform that FCA has, everything else is still based off of an older Fiat one. It's so weird, you'd think that FCA would be clamoring to build more vehicles off of this, if it makes a very competitive minivan it can make for a very good 2/3 row midsize crossover.

RAM is still my vote...along with Ford.

Every mitsu power plant ever built though went into Gods own original pentalty box of a car. Hard pass from me as an enthusiast. I do like the previous generation evos...but not enough to want to own one. And yes enough people disagree with me that resale vales are really high. As are Saab and reliability and resale. There is a reason dead brands are dead brands.

Lancer evo has an utter garbage interior and really is hideously ugly. The CTS thing is fair because the special edition in question is about 48 grand which is assinine for any Imprezza that can't attain Lunar orbit. 9 speed isn't terrible behind the V6. I am trying to throw something domestic into the mix because I am thinking about buying another car. CTS and Cherokee are the only two domestic cars I like enough to drop coin on...maybe Grand Cherokee. WRX STI and base WRX are probably the only two Asian vehicles I like enough to drop coin on...outside of perhaps the Stinger. GTI...Golf R...and maybe a CPO A4 are the only things from Europe. Nothing else built is in budget and interesting personally. Bit of an existential crisis as an enthusiast as I have never had this few cars I like in terms of ownership.

I hear you on most of those complaints. They were more valid on previous versions of Windows (like Windows 8 or XP or ME). Personally, I find that Win 10 works really well on my desktop AND my notebook. YMMV.

Everybody was an anti-Semite then. Including us in North America. All of us including those in power that controlled the fate of everybody in Europe. The Brits and the French. The Brits and the French knew what Hitler was doing before Sept. 1 1939. In fact, Hitler annexed Austria and the Brits and the French did nothing. March 12th, 1938. Lets talk about the anti-semitism. On November the 9th, 1938 for 24 hours, Germans, yes lets call them Nazis so we Westerners feel better about ourselves and as to not insult Germans either because Nazis were only a subset of Germans because Hitler did not win an election unanimously in 1933, well, they burned down synagogues, vandalized anything relating to Jewish peoples such as Jewish homes, Jewish business, Jewish schools and killed close to 100 Jewish peoples. This night was called Kristallnacht. And what did the Brits and the French do? NOTHING! What did WE do? Well, Time Life Man of the year in 1938 was one Adolf Hitler. Let it be known that Stalin was also killing Jewish people in Soviet Russia before Sept 1, 1939. What did the Brits and French do? NOTHING! What did we do? In 1939, Time Life Man of the year was another fine gentleman named Joseph Stalin. If those asshats Brits wanna harp on Henry Ford for being an anti-semite, they should also harp on their political leaders KNOWING allowing Hitler to kill Jews and do nothing because they were "too afraid" to make war again. Yet they knew that war was coming regardless because they knew France and themselves started this whirlwind when the Treaty of Versaille was signed on the 28th of June 1919. But they only put their foot down when Hitler attacked Poland on Sept 1, 1939 and THAT was too close to home, yet all the warning signs were there just a year prior, KNOWING that Hitler had killed Jews and was already sending them to concentration camps well before Sept. 1st 1939... Its a little hypocritical to point the anti-semitic finger on Henry Ford when the European world was rot with anti-semitism. I could go on about how Jewish people wanted to flee Germany just about when Hitler was voted in but France and England REFUSED them... But Ill just let Kristallnacht set into our thoughts and then Ill let the annexation of Austria settle in as well and how Austrian Jews were rounded up and put into Jewish Ghettos, and Ill let you decide if Henry Ford deserved to be dragged into a faslehood of dumb ass Brits talking casually about cars yet wanted to make it political and yet, these asshats are Brits, Neville Chamberlain was the one who could have really prevented anti-semitism to spread... but wanted to make a point about an American businessman being anti-semitic yet its in the Brits and the French and the Russian world that anti-semitism was created and flourished and spread around the world, including Henry Ford's world...but its in Britain and France that this started in...

Three things gays... You can bring used cars into the discussion, but a USED STi is a $25K buy and should not be compared to a $40K used CTS-V or whatever. But for that money, a used Lancer Evo -- with its active differentials and less nose heavy attitude -- is a better buy. The 9-speed Auto in the Cherokee is garbage. I really don't like the tall hip point and upright seating position of SUVs. This is particularly true of the unibody Cute Utilities which has no credible off-road value. If I need 3 rows, I'll rather pull a Jeff Bezos and drive a Minivan.

Nice thing about the Trailhawk Cherokee is it comes with a real rear locker. If prices on used WRX were not stupid I would consider that route.

The MS apps for things like mail are terrible. Outlook sucks unless you're using an exchange server. Random slowdowns. Have to uninstall/reinstall apps to get them to work. The App store sucks so bad I don't even bother with it. Terrible phone integration ... iPhone/Android... doesn't matter. Terrible integration with other home devices. And overall, the interface just sucks.

A little bit of GM horsepower...

I am not sure how a hybrid sTI will go over with traditional STI buyers. What I can get for STI money now....a Mustang GT and a Civic Type R would be more desirable. And I still love the STI.

I only use Windows for work..have a Windows 10 VM in my client's data center that I RDP into from my Mac laptop..I've been away from Windows at home for about 7 years now..avoiding it whenever possible..;)

I"m so fed up with Win10 I expect I'll replace it with a Macbook next time around... and with it go to iPhone

Which is precisely why it is a Bullsh!t Luxury Sedan. In what way has a Saab been luxurious or perceived as such? Eccentric, quirky and not too slow, maybe... Luxurious? That is like saying a Citreon or Fiat is luxurious. BTW, the Saab 900 of the 80s and 90s is the ache-typical Turbo car which you DON'T want. Dubious reliability, tons of turbolag, a pretty decent mid-range once it is spooled up but not much elsewhere. Pretty much like a Buick Grand National except that it is not particularly fast. The "best" turbo four engine from that period is arguably the Mitsubishi 4G63T 2.0L which you will find in anything from the 1989 Eagle Talon Tsi /Eclispe GST/GSX to the Gallant VR4 to the various Lancer Evolutions. It'll take a lot of boost (particularly the early 7.8:1 engines) and with a stock TD05 turbo will make quite a bit (~18 psi) without needing a turbo swap and without EVER running into the knock threshold. It also has impeccable manners (for its time) with its dual balance shafts, hydraulic valve lash adjusters, sequential fuel injection and Karman Vortex MAF meter with no moving parts.

For one, the majority of people are NOT Performance People. As such, many just like the style and design of the Auto which is proved out in how well Dodge continues to sell. I honestly have not seen many Challengers in rental fleets. Chargers and 300 yes. I do agree with you that it would be interesting to see the break out for Chrysler / Dodge products in fleet sales to normal retail sales. As is proven by the continued sales, one does NOT have to always start over with a new base to continue to build a decent product that customers like. FCA has clearly as @Drew Dowdell and others pointed out take and replaced old designs with new design parts that have improved greatly the quality of the 300 and dodge cars. If they had not, we would not have the Hellcat or Demon that has done so well in those cars. Change for the sake of change is not always needed or desired. One could easily challenge why Mercedes-Benz left the straight 6 for the V6 and now is back to it. We have all seen silky smooth engines on both engine types. As such, is this just to make the world think they have something new when they really do not have their electric auto's which will truly be different ready for the market? I honestly do not care for many non american auto's but I respect them all. One has to respect what Dodge and Chrysler has done with what they have and the billions they have made even if it was wrongly taken away and put into a name brand that I think is a waste of money.

Annnnd no one wants a 'George' platform under their Challenger, anyway.

So no new platform for the Charger/300/Challenger triplets. That is so Sergio: undercut ChryCo products and coddle FIAT products at ChryCo expense. Apparently the new guy may not want ChryCo to succeed either.

Got to get a snow thrower. Shoveling sucks.

and it could have duked it out with the ATS for who had less rear seat room.

That is the question: what does Genesis offer that other luxury marques don't? idk.

wow, and here I thought somebody would find it interesting about the old quote of "you can have a model t in any color as long as it's black". Way to fixate on the 10% of the video that was not about the trivia.

I'd think they would do a Journey replacement on this platform...and maybe a Chrysler-branded CUV also.

Been seeing these lately all over the Greater Seattle area. Seems to be a very popular family hauler. I wonder if this is due to the following for Washington Resident purchases. Fully Loaded Hybrid Limited is $48,825 here $7,500 fed tax break $1000 Chrysler incentive Washington State no Sales tax on EV's / specific Hybrids such as this model. Save $4,883 in sales tax. ?