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I continue to be in love with this van for road trips. Loving the mpg and smooth v6. A huge as a whale vessel loaded with pudgy midwesterners and still pull 30 mpg? Sweet air channels!

Um, debt is not going to our only problem....this country has a rage almost never seen before. Add the rage and anger to a downturn in the economy, and the “poop” will really fly... I’m actually more concerned for my safety...something I never thought I would say.....

Without being too political, I am worried about the constitution. Conservatives don't seem to like the first amendment, liberals don't seem to like the second. Neither side likes the 4th. NSA spying and the like is a violation of our freedom people don't seem to worry about. Add in creeping authoritarianism world wide and an unsound lack of critical thinking. Government control will creep more into our lives in all of the wrong ways.

Ugh, this thread has taken a turn for the worse.

Wow, I need to check this section of the site more often. Love your new truck!!!! Congrats ! Love those wheels.

If the new Encore GX comes here, it needs the 2.0T instead of the 1.6T simply because the standard Chinese engine will be too weak considering US traffic patterns.

Government is not your friend and is not ‘in your corner’.

Test Drove an Accord Sport 2.0 last week. Nice car but not worth a lot of hype. For a sedan, one of the better examples out there of a satisfying rig, just overrated. And by saying that, yes, it is true, sedans will continue to decrease, So accord will continue to see falling sales. It may have helped if Honda hadn't put an ugly wrapper on the car.

Corvette went to a rubber front bumper in ‘73, so with that and the fender gills, I believe its ‘70-‘72.

The EV Semi's have also been stated that they are focused on inner city delivery where quiet and delivery strength is a short but all day route which makes much more sense than on long haul where either electric semi with generator of say LNG or Diesel would make greater sense. I do wish Tesla would release more detail proof of their semi hauling the 80K pound loads up and down hills and the actual range they got. With that said, the lack of details has not stopped UPS, FedEx, Amazon and others from placing orders for the trucks and they all have pretty much said it would be used for inner city deliveries to inner warehouse moving around of trailers where cleaner and less maintenance is desired. Gonna be interesting to see what comes of it. Thank you, yup that is the basic default battery pack. It would be interesting to get the top of the line battery pack and see how it does the same trip.

Anything else that is rated for 5000lb can drive 100 miles unloaded, 65 miles loaded, and 30 miles unloaded back to a station without having to turn the AC off.

Because the Duramax is built for towing. Like I said, you could tow almost as much with a Panamera as well.... but you don't buy a Panamera for towing. (I picked the Panamera because it is currently the sedan with the greatest towing capacity)

Exactly, it isn't such an adventure that it should require a complete fuel-up for such a trip. At the very end of the video when they were down to 1% getting to the Supercharger the timer said 2hr 12m for a full charge.. Realistically, this isn't much of an issue because like Drew said, people aren't towing with their Teslas. BUT, these companies are working on semi trucks that are EV.. Are their 500 mile estimates realistically like 125 miles? Do they need 10,000 mile "estimates" to be able to actually do work?

^ Seems impossible if it goes electric.

Here's my traditional new vehicle intro photo, at Lancaster County Park's covered bridge. It's so good to be back in a vehicle that can get out of its own way (but I will defend my former Jeepiat always otherwise). At the walking trail parking lot this morning -

More shrinkage to come... Possibly from the 8 series itself. The 2 door versions may go away.