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Kay Hunt. Used to work with a guy who named his daughter that. No Joke! Poor girl. Lezbaru

@balthazar My association with the Andrea Doria is that my parents knew people who came to the U.S. on successful and uneventful voyages, and one couple who was on the tragic crossing but obviously survived. And I heard these people talk about their crossings in our living room. The thing about the Andrea Doria is that America was glued to their TV sets watching this live, from the ship laying on its side to it slipping completely underwater the next morning. Recounting the Titanic story was largely anecdotal (but factual) and via print and radio. What the heck kind of a car is that ^ ? I'm digging on that console, even though I can't tell what the different slots are. Is it an integral armrest or a separate assembly that sits on the transmission tunnel? Nice. - - - - - Yesterday marks another milestone. I got my first haircut at a place you pay for that service. (I had been sloppily cutting my own hair since March.) There's a nearby cosmetology school that charges under $ 10. Come back special: 5 BUCKS! Instructors are always walking around checking what the students are doing. This girl did a great job. I gave her a nice cash tip.

WOW, Guess if your rich there are no bounds to how one can be spoiled. Introducing the new EV go cart by Bugatti, the Bugatti Baby II. According to this article, Ettore Bugatti loved cars and loved his sons so much that when his 4 year old son asked for a car, he could not say no. So with his older son Jean, they built a half-scale electric replica of the famous Type 35 Bugatti racer. So desirable among the rich at the time, Bugatti went on to build 500 EV Type 35 racer carts from 1927 to 1936. Today Bugatti is going to build a 3/4 size EV of the Type 35 racer calling it the Bugatti Baby II. The Baby II is again aimed at the rich who spoil their kids. It will have 3 trim levels with the Bugatti Baby II base starting at $35,000 with a top speed of 42 miles per hour with a 15 mile range. There is programmed modes so you can limit power and speed. You can lock the auto into Novice mode or go all the way to expert mode. Middle trim level is called Vitesse and tops out at $50,500. Top trim level is Pur Sang and tops out at $68,000. Honestly, I could never understand a parent spending this kind of Coin on a kid who as the story says will probably crash it and leave it out in the rain. But then how a dollar bill is to most of us, I make the assumption that a $1,000 is like that to the rich 1% crowd. https://www.thedrive.com/news/35070/bugatti-baby-ii-is-the-68000-go-kart-your-kid-will-crash-and-leave-outside-in-the-rain

Tesla wishes that they had a car that sold as well as that Prius!

2020? Im still flabbergasted with the 2012 Tundra towing the Space Shuttle... I STILL cant contain myself.

I'll go ahead and assume the noise from this was catastrophically loud. Maybe if it was electric instead .... ?

So the truth comes out... Nothing to do with "reliability" then... I may need a bed with my meds...but there is a reason I write my posts the way I do... The rest...the arguing of who employs more and where the money goes and to whom is for another thread... And one that is interesting and would be informative... But...GM and Chrysler and Ford building cars in Canada is a bad thing? You view that as a negative? I hope you dont. Because it undermines the trillion dollar trade both our countries enjoy for the last...well, since forever. Since the days before Paleface hadnt crossed the Atlantic yet and only the Native American Indians lived here... In other words, there was never really any borders here. Ever. Between the different tribes there were alliances and with others there was war, but there was always trade between everybody. And discussion of that, well, that too would be for another another time in another thread... PS: To inform you... I care a lot for the American worker. Even as a Canadian, I care a whole lot. If you read closely to what I wrote, you and I are saying the same thing... I just cut to the chase and eliminate the BS... Oh...just to let you know... That quote... There was a time when veterans of your country would NEVER EVER consider a car made by ANY Japanese or German car maker... How long does it take to heal wounds? I know WW2 ended in 1945... But to ease your conscience about it all, American money went on to rebuild Toyota and Mazda, Mercedes Benz and BMW. But there is another factor nobody considers in these conversations. Japan and Germany make it very very very difficult, almost impossible for others to build factories in their countries. China forces others to partner up with Chinese companies. Tesla pulled a miracle with Germany. Opel was GM property and GM had sensitive ties with Hitler... Maybe the US is too damned generous with their openness with foreign factories in their homeland? But dont forget though, after WW2, the US was the ONLY one left standing with factories still standing and running and producing all kinds of stuff that the world consumed. Its like Ford, GM, Coca-Cola etc...benefited from all the one-sidedness and that spilled over to the American people? I guess that is the price we paid for with our Rock-N-Roll and milkshakes and chrome and drive-in movie theatres in the 1950s and 1960s I guess...

• "stupid decisions" :: Sure- look at so many of toyoter's corporate decisions. • Most people don't buy equities out-of-pocket; their 401Ks are invested in them without their direct input. That's 100 million people, which is a LOT of John & Jane Q Publics. Obviously with vendor outsourcing and increased robotics, numbers will change. But GM used to employ 600,000. I'm not aware the cumulative investment in the U.S. there has ever been attempted to be calculated.

To answer that question, within a few years or less. The Nissan Versa and Sentra saw their last update. Ditto for the Hyundai and Kia (confirmed through a friend who works there) and the Spark will be done shortly . The Mirage will live....but it is one of the few things they sell around the world. Most sedans will be replaced by EVs, or by becoming “Subaru” like aka Fusion “sport wagon”...... We are going to see a major landscape change soon....pushed even faster/more because of Covid 19....

Why are 'shareholders' lumped in with 'CEOs'? Is the assumption here that shareholders are all millionaires lounging on their yachts? Instead of millions of everyday people with pensions & 401Ks, hoping to be able to retire before age 85? honda & toyota's profits also go to CEOs, upper management & shareholders (tho that last one- not in the U.S.). Ford built nearly 2,000,000 vehicles in the US in 2019, honda built 1.2 million. Ford employs 85,000 in the U.S., honda employs 31,000. Between these 2 examples, it is Ford who is giving jobs to American workers, not Honda. And that number used to be much higher, but once you slice a pizza into 80 slices, everyone gets less pizza. BTW, honda also has 2 plants in Mexico, one just opened in 2014. That would be, quite arguably, 'taking jobs away from American workers', no?

That will take 17 (or so) years to go generic.

First Bullitt I have seen.

‘70 Judge. Ram Air III 400, or RA IV 400 optional. Not sure offhand if you could get the 455 on a ‘70 J. RA III was underrated at 366 HP. Calculations have put this engine at about 410 actual. RA IV was laughably rated at 370. IV's have round port, hi-flow heads; a huge difference. These were putting out around 450, IIRC.

If ANY image of a Native American is 'potentially offensive', one is effectively 'eradicating' any public presence by eliminating every symbol. As usual, the hysterical over-react and speak for others, making unilateral demands. The Redskins logo & name was designed with prominent input from Native Americans, who have polled as being largely in favor of it. Doesn't matter to the hysterical. I can see an argument for Aunt Jemima (I'm not in that camp), but once the Land O Lakes Native American woman was kidnapped off the packaging, I stopped trying to see other side's 'logic'. I type this wearing a vintage-harkening t-shirt which has the Indian Head logo & 'PONTIAC" on it. Ironically for some, guess under what president the choice 'negro' was first removed from the US Census? I actually agree with this (and Morgan Freeman) : stop talking about it. Focus is breeding division. How can you have 'equality' (whatever that's defined as) when every segment of society is getting labeled?