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Or we could ask Donald J. Tump...he's also a climate scientist. A more recent one at that. He's got more current information to work with... He's also a pandemic specialist. An economist connoisseur and lets not forget, an all time athletic great.

This COVID-19 mess literally could not have come at a worse time for EVs.

I concur. Chevy needed the VOLT system into an Equinox AND the Trax AND the Traverse, at least as an option. There is no reason to have a V6 with such a poor uptake when Toyota could simply sell Camry Hybrids for the next decade.

Ford Focus RS is officially dead in Europe as the auto cannot meet the current or future emission requirements. https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2020/04/european-emission-regulations-killed-the-ford-focus-rs/ Ford News gets worse, Ford is expected to have a $2 billion dollar loss for Q1 of 2020 after a terrible Q4 2019. China and Europe blinked off in mid January and as such, Ford SEC filing is stating a 16% drop for Q1 of 2020 and Q2 could get much worse. OUCH ? https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2020/04/gird-your-investor-loins-ford-predicts-2-billion-loss/ Awesome ride, asking price for this 1988 T-Top Buick LeSabre is $6,500 https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2020/04/rare-rides-the-1988-buick-lesabre-t-type-coupe/

Snowing again...

Now That is SAD. But expected behavior given the current administration.

With really low oil and gas prices, the EV industry is going to be in for a rough couple of years according to this review / analyst. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/now-what-electric-vehicles-coronavirus-colin-mckerracher-bloomberg/

Had a bit here Wednesday night and light flurries yesterday, more coming today. Unusual to see April snow in Ohio, can't recall the last time I've seen that. Had a bit of ice on it, fell at the end of the driveway on my arse yesterday morning when rolling out the wheely bins.

Every day... esp. in the evening and at night..my motion-sensing cameras catch them meandering through front yard, across the driveway, down the side, in the backyard. Caught this pic of a bunch of them in the yard recently..

Hey! Just like EVs!

We are talking about EVs here, not diesel cars.

Everything is off-schedule. With such ultra low take rates for EVs, they're likely to be delayed even more; vehicles and new batteries. They have always been propped up by IC profits.

Not mine; YOURS. Nevermnd. ?

Don't muddy the thread.

Ferrari Roma, magnificent specimen. Why you mad.

Hoping that the new breakthroughs in Solid State batteries can get into production to keep EVs on schedule for coming out and lower prices.

Oh; its cool alright! ? ’35 Ford HD truck chassis w/ ‘26 Lincoln V8. Family lost track of it years ago, despite it being ‘a local legend’.

Vast majority would say that would not be a "move forward". LOL left coasties. I see where Lexus NX, in its NeXt gen, will have the V6 as an option. An improvement in itself.

I grabbed off of a small FB page. No clue what kind of truck it is. Thought it was cool.

So you're saying : 'my appreciation is beautiful' ??

I am honestly surprised Toyota has not just dropped all basic ICE and put various power levels of their Prius Hybrid system into all the auto's and move forward. This is my thinking also with how Chevrolet should have pushed the Volt system into CUVs way before everyone else rather than the tight little 4 door sedan they stuck with. I honestly find the Toyota style just like the Lexus to be butt ugly. The interior looks like a mashed up mess. This will sell well to the Lemming Faithful, but I would not expect it to gain market share unless everyone else just gives up of those that are left.

What a joke, might as well rename it the Environmental Poisoning Agency.

I am amazed that the Camry still has a V6 option. Just about everyone else went 4cyl exclusive a few years back, and that was before Ford and GM largely abandoned this segment (Chrysler too). Then again, Avalons and Highlanders would make a better home for the V6 anyway. Same with the Lexus vehicles. Because Accords are not selling like they were six years ago, Camrys probably are not selling that well either.

Yup. Hybrids and small cars looked great when gas was $4+ a gallon back in 2008-09. Same thing here in reverse, only it feels like 2002, if not 1998.

Wonderful NOT, incompetent leadership strikes again in that the EPA has removed the laws covering regulation of lead and other harmful emissions that can affect our kids and our health all for the all mighty dollar. https://electrek.co/2020/04/16/epa-kills-mercury-pollution-rule-putting-pregnant-women-minorities-at-risk/#more-130668

Amazing the BS Junk coming out of Germany. Guess they truly cannot compete in EVs so they are falling back on making their whole product lines Hybrids and that comes with Worse MPG and pathetic electric range at that. Why bother other than to continue the last 40 years of Lying marketing BS about their quality of auto since they cannot seem to engineer anything else. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1127832_2021-bmw-330e-plug-in-hybrid-23-electric-miles-but-worse-mpg-than-non-hybrid How do you bring out a new Hybrid with worse MPG on top of only a pathetic 23 miles of range. The Chevrolet Volt did better than this on pure electric and everything else. What a joke. Mercedes-benz is in the same boat, cannot deliver a quality true EV, so making the whole product line Hybrid by the end of 2020. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1127830_mercedes-benz-pushes-plug-in-hybrid-tech-will-have-20-phevs-by-end-of-2020 MB latest Hybrid is rated at 43 mpg on their European test which no one ever really gets due to the loopholes and lack of real world testing which is why our EPA results are so much more accurate. So MB Hybrids really only get about 20 mpg pure electric range. Wanna understand the difference between European testing of range and the EPA testing check out this writeup. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1091877_why-european-gas-mileage-ratings-are-so-high--and-often-wrong

A bit sore all over, twisted my back..have bruises on my right knuckles because I was holding the recycle bin handle and pulled it down on me as I fell.. and of course a couple hours later the ice had melted.

And we have snow coming....why????

It'll happen for you. It will either be (1) wow, (2) that was okay, or (3) you won't like it. Most people are in the first 2 groups. A small group, such as my parents, would have been in the last group. I'm definitely in the first group - wow.

Don’t know- only learned about it yesterday. Divisions were still doing the lion’s share of their own engineering in the ‘70s.

yikes, that is 'basic'...its like the little suzukis in india....

I notice that suddenly they're "dogs". ?

It's fun to watch them come up to my patio and eat out of the bird feeders...but I don't like when they dig up the yard looking for grubs, or leave their poo pellets that a couple of my dogs love to hoover up...

The only question is why GMC pickups are not selling as well as Chevy trucks. SUVs too.

You Crazy, that Ferrari is butt ugly, nothing special there, Corvette so beats that hands down. Nothing mad here, just shocked that anyone would find it attractive. Hell that makes the butt ugly Chevrolet Pickup trucks pretty. ?

I am surprised the V6 is still around, yeah it is in the Avalon and ES350 so it is easy to do. But I read a couple years ago the V6 take rate was only about 7% it is probably lower now. Seems like it would be easier for Toyota to put a turbo on the 2.5 liter 4-cylinder, get about 260 hp, 260 lb-ft and replace the V6 in their front drive products. Maybe keep the V6 for Lexus, or a rear drive Toyota. The V6 here makes the Camry $37k, that is a lot, with a 4-cylinder it is $33k which is more reasonable, and appropriate for this buyer segment.

Yes you Amish are all about keeping status quo and ignoring the ability to move forward with better tech. Sadly, when hybrids have been done, they have been done half ass in some cases and yet as proven by the sales, Toyota took a half ass version of the Rav4 hybrid, finally updated with a gen 2 hybrid and now that thing is superior in all ways to the ICE Rav4. Toyota needs to move forward with that on all auto's as does every other OEM.

Ultimate Fake News right there, it was from Facebook.

whoa holy crap

Is this 'beautiful condition' or 'beautiful styling'? Asking for a friend.

You ever post stuff in that thread, blu? You know I do- that's me ^ top of page 488.

because they're LOSERS