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Very exciting to see this as I know I am very happy to work for Dell Technologies. Great to have my company be listed in the top 100 companies to work for in the world. https://www.fastcompany.com/90527870/best-workplaces-for-innovators-2020

Pontiac for me please.

Crew Cab trucks with a bed truly make a very usable family auto for hauling around folks, plus being able to throw stuff into the bed that you would normally not want inside an SUV. I know I will once the EVs are out, be getting another truck as the wife really misses not having it when she goes to Home Depot for her gardening stuff.

I think it has nothing to do with EVs. People who work from home don't put as many miles on their cars, so less reason to upgrade for something newer. Secondary, a lot of people are out of a work now, so they definitely will hold on to whatever they got and will not purchase anything newer.

Way cool... the huge bank I worked for 10 years ago was named the worst company in America at least once I think. The small consulting firm I worked for in the mid 10s was ranked the best small company to work for in Arizona a couple of times..was a really good place.

Once upon a time, trucks were totally about function. Then they took everything that cars had, added it to their functionality, gave buyers a cornucopia of trims & options and accessories, and the car slipped further into it's open grave. Yep, that included big screens & sunroofs.

Except that I do think Aesthetics should matter on a truck. That was my whole point. Daughter of a co worker is having a hell of a great career in the air force serving her country, 20 years old, just bought a new Tacoma 4 door 4 wheel drive. She has American falgs all over the thing. Hardly think that she hates her country. But would like to see her maybe buy an American vehicle. My ideas about them are changing. I could really use one, thinking hard about buying one.

Your “liking” them does not change my statement. Again, it is a pick up truck, where function should trump whether or not it has a panoramic sunroof or an 50” screen on the center stack. Oh give it a rest homer. The great thing about this country is that people can buy whatever they want and adorn them with whatever stickers they want. Example, you used to own an “American” car that was made in Mexico by a company based in Italy. I’m assuming you had some Mexican and Italian flag stickers on that Compass, going by your “logic”.

okay. California July 2020 Somewhere in England I believe. July 2020 Ummmm....the Corvette Z06 reveal will be made sometime this year. All we need is a little patience. And Guns and Roses?

I parked this car because it had a stuck lifter. Still ran fantastically strong. So 2 weeks ago, after the urging of 2 friends and my son (who loves this car), I rounded up 4 tires that hold air & swapped them on, rolled the car outside, we washed it and started airing out the interior. I used to have mice running around in my shop, so the windows have been closed all these years. Interior got hella moldy. There were still 2 contained mice nests- one in the back seat and one in a cardboard box in the trunk. Minimal activity either way. About 90% of the interior has been cleaned now. Going to pulled the buckets and clean the carpet, then button it all back together (I had the rear seat out / just sitting in there). Hooked a power unit up and tried out a few things- power antenna works, parking lights work, horn works. Didn't try the windows- the power unit isn't the same thing as an actual battery (horn was weak), so didn't want to have them stuck down. I turned the engine over manually last year, currently have some Marvel Mystery oil in all the cylinders, and going to rotate the engine a couple turns. Next is rebuilt the carb, clean out the tank (it was coated years back), replace the fuel lines. Check the ignition bits (they only have about 800 miles on them), and probably try to start it. If it runs, the next hurdle is moving. If it moves, it gets a brand new brake system & tires, and it's time to cruise. Then there's this to consider :

Cadillac division sent out this email saying that the Cadillac Lyriq reveal will be August 6th 2020 @ 7PM. Now the interesting part is what time zone? EST, MST, PST,.......... ?

Without hesitation! - - - - - Articles like this make me sad, just like the elimination of Olds and Pontiac made me sad. Olds and Pontiacs were selling like hot cakes when I was a kid. And this was in import-crazed SoCal. Now this. It appears to be official. Boeing will be pulling the plug on 747 production in 2022. This plane aged like a fine wine, with each variant getting better. I've had the opportunity to fly on the 747-8i once and it's a feast for the senses. Just like the last and possibly best version of the 767, the 400-ER, for which Boeing did not get many orders, Boeing has not gotten many orders for the "8." Most of the orders have been in freighter, not pax, form. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/after-a-historic-run-it-s-game-over-for-pioneering-boeing-747/ar-BB17kOay?ocid=msedgdhp At phase out, the jumbo, or "queen of the skies," will have been flying for 52 or 53 years, depending on whether you count the test flight (1969) or introduction into commercial service (1970). Whether in real life, in photos, or in videos, it's always been a beauty, and I'm certainly not in a minority of nerds who love this aircraft. Many people the world over do.

My cashier's reaction to me, bro...

The lady in the ting tings is 73 years old now. The dude is like 80. You mean to tell me you ain't heard "that's not my name" before now? *whew*

This song comes on the restaurant's radio. First time I hear it. My cashier, 20 years old, starts singing it. Belting it word for word while doing a funky dance. (Store was empty) I catch on, but I start saying: They call my name. They call my name. They call my name. She tells me quite sterningly (is that even a word?) that those are not the words... The phoque I care...all I could hear with the beat is this song... Never felt so old though... HA on her though! 20 years old and she cant go clubbing... COVID! I was on top of the world @20!

Sounds like a worthwhile project.

I am kinda falling in love with the midsize pickup segment when it comes to new cars, Tacoma, Ranger, Colorado, Gladiator. Some interesting vehicles in that group. The Tundra that started this thread, not so much. All the truck you really need....I love it...

Both lower front fender drain holes tend to clog & rust out on these- there's a hole on each side there. Paint on the horizontal surfaces is lightly crispy, but the sides are going to buff out nicely. Frame, trunk pan, floors and rockers are mint. What's left of the vinyl top shows zero bubbles (at the C-pillar). It really was only on the road for 7 years.

Maybe Firestone, Goodyear or Hankook will have an "End Of Summer Blowout Sale" on tires next month! Well in production, from day one, it was fiberglass. But whether it went from clay model or wooden buck to fiberglass directly as a prototype, est-ce votre question?

Reminds me I need to look for some tires for the old Cavalier . The current tires are creeping up on 7.5 years now....though the car is garaged, and the tires still look good. Better safe than a blowout......

Music from the '70s is weird. Unmistakable Steely Dan can be labeled - fusion of rock and jazz. But artists like Van Morrison have musical approaches that are harder to label (anyone care to try), but his music is unique enough and definitely cool. IMO, I think this is his best (followed by "Brown Eyed Girl"):

Some salty states have annual inspections---like Pennsylvania. Others, like Ohio, have no inspections. So lots of rusty chud on the roads here.

Not disagreeing with your post but that was not reason for my reply to riviera. They made the statement that Tacoma sales were garbage like the Tundras when they are not, so much so that they sold double the number of Colorado’s last year despite the Colorado being the overall better truck. Brand loyalty 101, much like the F-150 and Silverado outselling RAM even when RAM has had the better truck at times. And sorry Balth, but I’m more than happy to show the sheer pile of twenty year old S-10s and first gen Colorado’s that turned to pure $h! since you seem to think that only the Tacoma should face that level of criticisms. Like them or not, they have earned their reputation for being solid trucks with a pretty healthy record in the reliability department. Their high resale values over the years back this up.

I like the simplicity. Definitely will take it over this mess of the front end I do like the looks of the RAM the most though

WOW, this is scary! https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/35099/vintage-race-car-flips-mark-webber-style-in-massive-road-america-crash

The Model 3? 2nd generation Prius Sales: 1 200 000 in 6 years of service. 500 000 units of the Model 3 have been delivered as of March 2020. 3 years of service so far. Its at the very least...on pace with that 2nd gen Prius for sales...

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 heard things by folks who were alive then. No longer alive now. Well documented could very well mean well doctored too. Revised history is a very real thing. We will never know the truth about that. Allegations are just that. Allegations. You are right, Time magazine has NOTHING to do with GM. The general state of knowledge then was to turn a blind eye to Nazi Germany, so you are right again that it does paint a significant portrait of the general state in 1938. So much so, that America ignored Nazi Germany up until 1941. And it took the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour to kick things into motion...officially. Because unofficially, America contributed to the war effort. And...Hitler had declared war on America before 1941 I believe... I could post links that share my point of view on this, but its just allegations, conspiracy theories and opinions at this point in time. And in reality...WHO CARES???!!! The war ened. The "good" side one. (And "good" is definitely in quotation marks as even on our side, we kinda fueled what was to be Mein Kampf and the evil to follow. Including the Anti-Semitism that came out of that election in Germany in 1933) And...Im a HUGE fan and believer of General Motors. Then and now. I understand that business is business sometimes. And when hostile environments exist where you do business, you do whatever it takes to survive... I aint judging. But by that statement, We got another one of them sticky situations in China as we speak. Trump's administration ordered the Chinese consulate closed in Houston with very serious allegations as to why that place should be closed down.... In retaliation, China did the same in Wuhan? for the American diplomatic office. The South China seas are a hot spot for US warships, Chinese war ships... GM is doing business in China hands over fists and is heavily partnered with a (several?) Chinese car manufacturers and suppliers... If anything was to come out of this with bloodshed...what are we going to say then about GM? Food for thought....

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

Im saying...that GM owned Opel when Hitler was voted in power. Hitler became a dictator and undoubtedly had many many "business" meetings with GM brass (Opel or Detroit brass) about cars...and about the upcoming war effort... Sensitive ties to Hitler... And NOBODY could deny that. Well, one could deny it...

• "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.

Because if you have no good paying manufacturing or engineering jobs here, you will not be able to afford these shares or to save for the retirement. I have seen many companies, including mine to make decisions that are not good for the workers or even for the future of said company, but only to make it look for a short period of time so that bottom line will look good and shares god forbid will not drop. I can't go to details but i have seen time and time again how incredibly stupid decisions are made only because of bean counters trying to pad the bottom line.

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?

According to this story, Honda and Toyota have decided to abandon the sub compact auto market in North America. Honda is killing off the Fit and Toyota Killed the Yaris. For Honda this means their lowest starting price auto which was the Fit at $17,145 now becomes the Civic Coupe LX starting at $22,705. For Toyota, the Yaris was their lowest priced starting auto and now that moves up to the Corolla. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1128923_honda-fit-toyota-yaris-fuel-efficient-small-car Wanting a Sub Compact, these are all that are left on the market, Chevrolet Spark, Hyundai Accent, Kia Rio, Nissan Versa and Mitsubishi Mirage for the 2021 Model year. This makes one wonder how long before these auto's will be killed off as Compact becomes the new entry point for auto ownership.

Dude I just realized I see first-gen Charger in the roof of the Norseman (just a whiff) and 1960 Plymouth of course.

in 2019, the 'coma outsold the GM mid-size pickups by about 93K units. It's like the.... corolla of the mid-size truck segment. Doesn't seem to matter how mediocre it is (49 recalls, with a couple years earning a recall about every 3.5 weeks), it keeps finding buyers.

Tundra sales are garbage and always have been. The Tacoma, however, continues to outsell the domestics. Not sure where you got the notion that Tacoma sales are bad. And good grief! What the hell happened on this thread? Sounds like a few folks need a bed and med check.

3 recalls AND 20 TSBs PER YEAR and that’s “not bad”??????? That’s what you call a ‘shitbox’, especially with the severity involved.

This is an interesting site. Toyota Tundra has a total of 51 recalls from the last 20 years of it's production. Not too bad. There are 7 issues under investigation with 2004 model year having 5 issues under investigation for brakes, suspension issues, airbags and seatbelts. The final big thing is the TSBs, 788 in total with the 2014 Model year having the most at 282 TSBs. http://www.toyotaproblems.com/models/tundra/recalls/ Worst year is 2010, Major electrical problems, engine and transmission problems along with wheel and frame issue for not supporting stated loads. This I do find very interesting, all the open cases that Toyota has yet to resolve around the following issues: See through rusted out frame assemblies, melting dashboards, Engine Sludge, Soy wire coating that rodents love to chew, oil consumption lawsuit, and so much more. http://www.toyotaproblems.com/problems/ Tundra is Baby Boomer tech, but clearly has a sludge of problems which really makes one question the reliability of the product. In regards to the service men and woman who buy Asian or European name plated auto's. Yes you have given to your country, yes democracy allows you to pick your product you want to spend your own hard earned coin on. The question to be asked is how do you changed American companies to build better products if you will not support them and give them the feedback to improve their products? On top of this, if your going to go around and preach about supporting your own country, how does that work when your money goes out in profits to other country based companies supporting another country over your own? Just saying, do you support your own US based Companies that pay taxes into the US Government and supports these companies or do you let it go over seas and support a foreign country? Food for thought!

Shoot, current generation Tundra bed floors rust out above the floor crossmembers... where the beds are bolted to the frame. I've seen many of them that way here in SE PA.

Yeah- look into the frame rot lawsuit; it covered tacomas, tundras and sequoias. 4-runners and T100s also had severe rot issues. Or... keep your head in the sand.

It's not common for someone mid-aged to still have the first car they ever bought. I picked up this '64 GP in '86, it was 22 yrs old then. Still got her, 34 years later, and she's now 56 years old. Thankfully, she's basically the same shape as when I got her, as opposed to having degenerated in the time in-between. Very nicely optioned for '64: heater/defroster, power steering, power brakes, AM-FM, power antenna, power windows, A/C, Electro-Cruise, tilt wheel, Cordova vinyl top, automatic. Standard were the 4bbl 389 V8, dual exhaust, bucket/console, padded dash. Regarding the tilt or the AM-FM, one is a first year option, the other is 2nd year. I think tilt is first year. When my buddy asked me to borrow $100 to buy it, I said 'let's go check it out'. It was parked with 2 other cars for sale: 1963 Buick LeSabre 2-dr sedan, 150K miles, painted white with a ROLLER. $150 1966 Pontiac Catalina 4-dr sedan, 125K miles, no keys, gold, $125. and this triple-black Grand Prix Sport coupe was just $100. Needless to say- I lent him the 100, with the caveat that he give me first dibs when he decided to sell it (inevitable, and on a short time span based on past history). Now, the car was bought in '86. The inspection sticker in the window was dated from 1971! So it had already sat for 15 years. Owner said he started it regularly, but the alternator always gave him trouble so he parked it. Odometer the day of purchase said 55554.5 My buddy then (we were young squirts) basically only bought cheap old iron to use as daily drivers. Went thru them fast & furious. Even though we rebuild the carb one night at his gas station job, the tank had enough gunk in it that the car continually stalled out while driving. Why he never dropped/cleaned the tank I don't know. I think it was mere months later when he offered it to me for the same $100. I accepted, August 21, 1986.

LOL, some of us are just more REALIST than others Skippy!

Basically I agree, but I expect a LOT more from ‘medical experts’ than we’ve gotten. We’re 6 months in, the ‘expert’ info is sketchy and sometimes self-cancelling, and all the future guesswork comes off as an average of ‘cover our ass in case it goes haywire’ and ‘we literally have no idea whatsoever but feel pressured to say SOMETHING’.

The difference is we have a coast-to-coast awareness and unprecented PPE in public spaces. I don't believe any 2nd wave will come close to the 1st. I also think the most subceptible succumbed at the highest rate, and perhaps there are less of that group left by the fall (unfortunately). Heat is going to trump the humidity- the 'host' droplet evaporates and the virus dies in high heat. Humidity is not going to reconstitute that droplet. IF there actually was any Gov't desire to see a population decrease, it would be MORE than offset by the sheer greed of the revenue stream. State is no better than the federal Gov't in efficiency.

I get what your saying, cold allows the virus to replicate and mutate, yet also moisture does the same thing, so too humid of a summer could set us up for a perfect storm of infection and death. This is following the same trends of the Influenza of 1918 where the first wave hit early spring and then the worse was fall of 1918 before a vaccine was created and it settled down. This time, I suspect it will be worse than 1918 as we have more population and with incompetence in government, even with states taking on a bigger role for PPE, I think the civil unrest and global stand up to the cast of 1% that think they are better than the rest is going to leave us with a much larger hit to the population. One does have to wonder since this is hitting smokers, seniors and out of shape folks harder than those that can afford to eat healthier and stay in shape how much the governments are hoping it kills off the population that relies now on certain government programs. From Social Services to our paid and due to all US citizens who have paid in the much earned Social Security check and Medicare. We do live in interesting times.