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I would have, but I hav been quite busy with the day job. New project is taking a lot of me and has caused a number of items to be pushed back (sees list of reviews needing to be written). Hopefully, I will do some news writing in the next week or so depending on this project. Also, I happen to like the new Sienna. I'm very much the outlier in this forum.

As we get older, us guys do like a rear on a woman!

Yeah, maybe I’ve grown used to them I guess. Will say the van has a nice rear though for its size... ?

They need to do a TRD version w/ some ground effects, black wheels, red leather interior, black roof, big wing on the back... BTW, the Japanese-market Alphard van is available w/ a TRD kit...

Mathmatically, that translates to an unchanged market. If we use 2000 & 100,000 to represent the 2.0% of current EV marketshare, multiplying by the percentages above gives EVs a market share of 2.1%. The 5% difference is negligible when your slice of the pie is so tiny. - - - - - For EVs to "account" for 31% of the overall fleet of vehicles in 20 years' time, they will have to average 4.12 million sales per year starting immediately (31% of 275,000,000 is 82,500,000/20). But US & global EV sales peaked in 2018, and were down in 2019. 2019's US sales were 330,000, a bit shy of 4.1 million. And being that 2020 sales are going to be terrible, let's just call it 4.34 million U.S. EV sales starting 1/1/21. GOOD LUCK with that!! And; MATH.

And vice versa. Since the 1920s at least. - - - - Somewhat fawning...

That is a badass van.....

Cadillac hearses and Lincoln limousines. Been that way since at least the 1950s. This might clear up a few things about German cars in general. . . . or not: https://www.insidehook.com/article/vehicles/field-guide-most-popular-yuppie-car

Auto registrations are set to fall 18% this year for EV's sold globally. Yet this is smaller than what analyst say will be at least a 23% reduction in ICE auto registrations. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-electric-research/electric-car-sales-to-fall-but-not-as-much-as-other-vehicles-research-idUSKBN22V0DD Analyst are projecting a bumpy 3 years for auto sales globally. Bloomberg projects that EV will account for 31% of overall auto fleet by 2040 and account for 58% of new auto sales by 2040. This is expected as ICE auto sales hit their global peak in 2017 and have been tappering off since. The pandemic will cause an even bigger hit to over all auto sales with ICE having the biggest drop. The figures have implications for the Oil and Electricity Markets. Bloomberg is forcasting that by 2040, EV's will remove 17.6 million barrels per day of Oil Demand up from 1 million today. The report also shows growth for Hydrogen fuel-cell auto's which would be in the heavy-duty commercial market.

History is made in beating Big Daddy Don Garlits in EV Drag as his record was 189 mph last year. With 2,400 HP, 2,000 lb feet of torque. You have a new world record of 201 mph @ 7.520 second quarter mile. With driver, this dragster weights only 2010 lbs.

Wow it's almost like driving an EV, you're reduced to making vroom vroom noises with your lips instead of your throttle foot. *sobs*

Maybe you need to sleep and look at that Big Mouth Billy Bass mouth MiniVan in the morning. ?

Van is kinda sexy.....or I am really getting old.... ?

• Driver-side rear brake is now done. That side drum (brand new) was painted satin black hi-temp paint, still have to spray the passenger drum. • Painted up some of the parking brake hardware and bolted it under the car. Funky wheels to direct the cable toward the back. Have to do fabrication there, will tinker with that soon. • Thinking again about the front speakers- most likely spot is in the doors. I generally don't like that look but maybe I can mask them / make them work with the door panel. Mulling. But I put the vent window back in the door to check how much space I have. • There was some of this, accompanied by Sounds of Brutal Acceleration :

Or they can read it here: https://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2020/05/toyota-goes-all-hybrid-with-new-venza-sienna-models/

I happened onto a really tasty pasta sauce flavor - mushroom and green pepper. I recommend it!

I've been on a plane I think 4 times in 30 years. Not a big traveler.

The 4Runner is quite capable, but it's so dated and ugly inside and out...I wouldn't get one over a Jeep GC (though the Toyota would likely be more reliable over 100k miles).

Wear gloves and a mask and carry some sanitizer to spray other people? I'm not getting on a plane anytime soon, maybe in a year or so if things recover. There are lots of places I'd love to go, but not until things get to a 'new normal' eventually.... I really want to go to Colorado for a week or so, been five years since I've been there, lots of friends I want to see and places I want to go...maybe next summer.