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There's a new Sorento coming very soon, possibly at the end of the year - but sometime next year more likely. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a31941463/2021-kia-sorento-details-revealed/ No idea as to when next Sportage is coming. Well, they only sold it in a small number of states to begin with (California and those states who have similar emission standards to Cali). Plus, they only had a range of 100 to 120 miles. Trying to find my review from 2013 or 2014.

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.

What if GM had built a Hummer like this..looks Trax-sized.

Could the KIA Soul EV be a compliance car? And hence why folk stayed away from it... The Hyundai KONA EV is selling great. Shattering the Soul EV sales. Could it be that the KONA is THAT much better of an EV than the Soul ever was and the market is just responding to that situation accordingly? This would be a case of sales reflecting how good or bad a product is in the marketplace...

Going to lock the thread for the time-being.

The DreamLIFTER has the same Beluga the whale look that the Airbus 380 has. But, yes, it can carry a lot! Perhaps too much. I am looking at all the press about delays and whatnot that the Boeing 777-X is getting and that damn plane looks huge. I've only flown on an earlier B-777 once and wasn't crazy about it. I know they're workhorses. I have flown on the 787 Dreamliner twice ... and very much look forward to flying on one again. Still looking forward to flying on that rare B767-400 ER. If I recall, only 36 of them were ordered by American carriers - Delta and United/Continental. The best thing about the 767 is the 2-3-2 arrangement, which favors the passenger more than it does maximizing revenue.

I didnt do it for America though. Nor because it was Japanese and therefore more reliable than American... I bought it because it was my actual freedom of choice that I bought a better product for myself and my family's needs... I dont do the shyte argument that was presented to me here. I NEVER heard the, I bought it because it was a better product for me. Fits my needs better.. I got the toot toot toot , freedom of choice by using veterans as an excuse and criteria. I got the reliability card too. I pointed out the hypocrisy, the idiocy, the fallacy of that argument. Some of us got it. Some of us dint. ALL OF US IGNORED THAT MESSAGE AND STATEMENT... We still POUND the reliability aspect. FALSE FALSE FALSE . We IGNORE Japanese and German reliability problems... I said that older veterans had the OPPOSITE opinion. (Got a downvote because "historical nonsense" and that WW2 is...old.) Some of us pointed out that some of these protected vehicles have problems, RECENT problems but some of us were told that that is in the past. Yet those people defending these more recent problem plagued vehicles STILL want to hold onto grudges from the American brands....while they flag wave about freedom, yet WW2 was about freedom too. But that was tooo far back into the past. But not far enough for their own biased views for American products... All over the phoquing place... Now...these biases have plagued us unto the pick-up trucks... First phoquing time I hear that American pickup trucks are plagued with problems... Phoque man, every phoquing year, 1 million F150s are sold. year after year. Of course there will be some gremlins. No MECHANICAL product is perfect. Definitely not anything Japanese... Self hating' Americans. I dont understand it. Like I said, Germans are horribly embarrassed by their Nazi past. So much so that revisionist phoquing historians dont even wanna equate to Nazis to Germans. Same with the Japanese. Japanese are much much embarrassed by their Empirical time during WW2. But both of these folk will NEVER buy ANYTHING BUT their home turf cars... Only the Brits and Americans self hate to the point of driving their own industries to the ground...but hey...we are free to buy what the phoque we want... Just dont phoquing complain if eventually, there is no more American industries around... Some of us all act as if the foreign conglomerate, multinational corporations are all nice and teddy bear like... They do no harm to others, the environment. Dont commit fraud of any kind. Its just the American ones that are evil... Stupid stupid thinking...

Yeah, you wish you had that much culture. Given your disdain for anything that doesn’t conform to your narrow world view though, its more like... Of course, you had no logical counter for the fact that your initial post was pure hypocrisy and just general false patriotic whining but hey, that’s just par for the course. Same as it ever was.

Yep, a sad day for me also. Ford advertrs keep getting better and better.

We are old...but those are some great jams... ?

Cocktail

Thanks GMTG74!

This would be the ride across the pond to New York, parked at the gate at Frankfurt airport, Lufthansa's home base. Kudos to Lufthansa for being the launch customer for the B 747-8i. I applaud people who were brave enough to take German in high school or college. They just join words together to make mega-words with 20 letters in them. And to think of all those poor immigrants from Southern Europe and the Middle East living in Germany who have to learn them. For example, an "auditor" is a "wirtschaftsprufer" (with 2 dots over the u) in their lingo.

American Bantam was the 3rd company involved.

Ford Brazil bought Willys Brazil in the late 60s. In the early 80s they were building CJ-5s w/ the Ford 2.3 Lima 4cyl. Built them through 1983. I knew about the Willys Jeep wagon-based Ford Rural, but not this..learn something every day. Note the tiny Ford blue oval emblem below the stamped Jeep badge on the body.

Kia Soul was a Compliance EV and nothing similar with the Kona EV, Kona EV / Niro EV use the same bits and the updated Kia Soul EV that is not coming here also uses the same Kona Bits. InsideEVs did a good job covering the compliance EV and how it will change. https://insideevs.com/news/336974/new-kia-soul-ev-to-ride-on-kona-platform-go-186-miles-per-charge/

Hopefully power and controlled by a phone app...that would be slick.

Dum dum (suckers)

I know right? If only they had offered a diesel model like Chevy did with the Cruze. Oh wait. No one wanted those either.

Insane! Like the MOAB (Mother Of All Bombs). This would be the MOAC (Mother Of All Cannons).?

I've never looked specifically at that, but this isn't a car that's going to sit out in the rain, maybe ever again. I have spare rust-free fenders, but 1. they're a gold color, 2. they have many different bits of trim that would require drilling & filling of holes to take to GP spec, and 3. that's a considerable amount of dis/re-assembly to swap them out. I'd rather live with the contained rot & the original fenders/paint. I always pictured this car restored to stock. Financially, that doesn't make sense; I can buy one restored for considerable less than it would take to get this to that condition, I think. So I've moved on from that vision to one closer to the Cab-Over; make mechanically sound and drive. The GP is in FAR nicer shape than the COE, one could put it in the 'survivor' class of collectible since it's never been restored / is all original. Interior is really pretty great shape, has the original cardboards/mats in the trunk.

Yes, RIP 747, you will be missed. The interesting part is that the Dreamlifter which is a stretch 747 with the second level all the way to the back to fit the Dreamliner plane, 787 fuselage inside will continue to be made to support the production of the 787 that almost meets the cargo capacity of the 747. I honestly think they could build and sell the Dreamlifter plans to cargo companies.

Toto

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!

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.

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

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?

Dunkin Donuts will close 800 stores due to pandemic. ? https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/dunkin-to-close-800-us-stores-as-pandemic-hurts-sales/ar-BB17nLND?ocid=msedgntp

I think at this point, many people who can work from home are deciding to hold off on buying ICE auto's awaiting the much lower maintenance and ease of charging from home selection of EVs that are coming. EV's ROCK!

Oh... whatev. It's not like anyone bought it in the U.S.

First two weeks of Wolf's shutdown, we were on a split schedule, each "team" working 3 days/week, but that soon changed, been back working 5 days as normal since then. This "working from home" debacle has been a bit of a disaster for my industry simply due to the fact that dealing with insurance companies has been haphazard at best. They don't call back, payments have been in the wrong amounts, sent to the wrong place, the employees, we can tell, are not paying attention to business while The Price Is Right or Days Of Our Lives is on as they work from their living rooms. I heard a screeching in the background as I was talking to an insurance rep the other day, I asked him if he was working from home, he said "yes". Then I asked him if he has parakeets or parrots, he said "those are my KIDS". Pure BS. Cars are lasting longer because ppl have been demanding higher quality vehicles. Ppl also have not been enticed by the new stuff. A vehicle comes out and the design remains static for like 6 years at a time... where is the incentive to buy a new vehicle that looks the same as the old one? And the notion that cash strapped Americans are waiting for ridiculous toy EVs at twice the price of their reliable ICE vehicles is PURE LUNACY.

“Reliable ICE vehicles” Hello? Ocnblu? Yeah, we have Fiat on line one. And F it! Just tell your work that you all want to go back to the office. That way, when half of your office and the office of your clients, gets COVID, you can come back on here and bitch about how unproductive folks there are and how it sucks to work short handed.

Yes Bill, they were forced to sell it to an unimpressed public in looney compliance states. It was a waste of resources. Good thing the real Kia Soul is so well thought out.