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GXD D@#$ if that was a woman I would become a buddhist mon k just to embrace celebacy. Hideous. I don't see this selling well for a number of reasons.

The only Kandi Id like to be ridin' (But neither since I wouldnt be wanting to put myself into any kind of risk. You guys have good imaginations... use that to define what it is Im talking about)

Kandi, the Chinese auto company will open up the order books August 18th for people to purchase online their EV auto's. The Kandi K27 will be the first auto to go on sale in America with a starting price of $20,490 before the $7,500 federal tax credit. The K27 will end up costing almost $2,000 less than the current frugal champ the 2021 Chevrolet Spark at $14,790. The biggest question is will people buy a subcompact with only 100 miles of range for a commuter auto? The second auto in the line up is the K23 which will start at $29,999 with 180 miles of range. With the federal tax credit this makes the K23 $751 less than the 2021 Mini Cooper SE which has a 110 mile range or the Nissan Leaf S that starts at $32,525 with a 149 mile range or the Hyundai Ioniq EV with a starting cost of $34,020 and a 170 mile range. Kandi bought in 2018 a Texas based importer company called SC Autosports to handle all North America Distribution. No details have been released yet on how the auto's will be serviced and supported let alone sold state by state other than one can order up an EV starting August 18th on their web site. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1129057_kandi-electric-car-open-to-us-orders-august-18-with-20-499-starting-price

Wait, you mean STELLANTIS now right? LOL (cue the male enhancement music)

'62 X-400 concept :

Pontiac : King of the '60s ~

^ ocngrn

Surf's up. Really up.

Evy (pronounced with a short e, rhyming with heavy) (girl I used to know. 'Twas her nickname. Her name was Evy. And she was quite...heavy. Heavy Evy)

With a small and little version for Blu.... We now know why they fight like brothers...they ARE brothers....!

Probably a darned fine little car.

You know what is crazy right now. Chevy dealers hardly have inventory, except for all those new 2021 3 cylinder trailblazers from NotMuhrica (funny how that works, huh). And they are selling like crazy, i see a bunch of them out on the roads ALREADY. with those 1.2 and 1.3 3 cylinder motors and all. I'm pretty sure the salesman never says it a 3 cylinder, or that its a 1.2 or 1.3. They just tell the customer its 'turbocharged' and all of sudden they believe its fast. Turbo = racing ya know!!! Who cares about the engine, tell me how i can play with my phone in the car!!!! A coworker who loves his IMpreza Crosstrek manual, sounds like his wife is angling him to get rid of the small ride and stick....he was asking me about all the compact SUV's, including the Equinox. He would want a 2.0, i told him get that 2.0 before the cancel culture cancels it in 2021. We are conditioned to believe a 1.5 is a normal size motor, and pushing down to 3 cylinder 1.2 and 1.3, Now, not I, I would want the Blazer with 3.6. My ideal for next car is a twin turbo 6. Will I find one, and one that I can afford? Probably not, unless i can resolve the internal battle of CT5 C pillar or not.... Point being, maybe once they have beaten us all down into thinking a 1.3 litre subcompact CUV is luxury...then they will flip the switch and roll out the mass charging network and cheap EV's..... By that point a 10 second 0-60 on that 3 cylinder won't seem so desirable vs an EV with some torque. Maybe by then the Bolts will be selling like hotcakes!!!! I hope all these hot Cadillacs will be great used car buys in 7-10 years before the brand implodes due to 200,000 dollar weird looking and weirdly named EV's that almost no one will buy......

Sonic LTZ we have came from Hertz Sales - better price there than book / anywhere else.

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.

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.

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

LordsTown Motors has released their first video of the test mule truck Endurance. Showing it off as a working mans truck. Very cool to see actual working prototypes / mules. Like everyone else, due to the Pandemic, the production / release to preorder folks will start Summer 2021. Per their news release, the LordsTown pickup truck Endurance will have the following specifications at this time: Base Price $52,500 Safety Rating (Front, Side, Rollover) 5/5/4 ADAS-LDW, AEB, Rear Cross Traffic Alert Software, OTA (Over the Air Updates) Fault Monitoring - OTA real time EV Range (EPA cycle) 250+ miles Charging time (95% SOC, Level 2-7kW AC/Level 3 DC): 10hrs / .5 to 1.5hrs Off-board power for tools and accessory (stationary) 120B, 30 amp) Seating Capacity - 5 Towing Capacity - 7,500 lbs Drivetrain layout - 4 hub electric motors Brakes Front/Rear: Custom in hub motor brakes with regen Wheels: 20" Horsepower Peak 600 HP Electric Power Steering Assist Top Speed (software Governed): 80 mph Gradeability at GVW - 30% Warranty - 3yr bumper to bumper, 8 year battery warranty.

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...

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

Better a KIA Telluride EV than a Soul EV. While there are plenty of Soul vehicles sold here, Americans prefer BIG over little (budget permitting). Will KIA please update the Sportage and Sorento?

Maybe they will make a big and tall version.

This morning, I listened to the Mach E drifter do its EV motor whine and I sooooo wanted to defend it and try to contradict Balthy...but I ran out of time. I had to go to work. But, something funny happened to me this late afternoon. I was bitten by a snake. And hearing that V10 made me realize: Its hard to argue with Balthy... The Mach-E sounds HORRIBLE. I like the tech behind it. I like the way it looks. I HATE the way it sounds.

Rivian has their pilot production line complete and have now been able to give a finalized delivery date schedule for when the truck and SUV will start being delivered to customers. https://electrek.co/2020/07/24/rivian-delays-electric-pickup-summer-2021/ Now Rivian has issued an update to reservation holders with a clear timeline: R1T deliveries will begin June 2021 R1S deliveries will begin August 2021 Rivian has decided to roll out their own adventure charging network in support of Rivian go anywhere auto's. As such they have hired numerous Tesla employees who had helped Tesla roll out their charging network. For the “adventure” aspect of the network, Rivian will first target off-roading pit stops, national parks, and RV parks. One does have to wonder if this is why Tesla has decided to sue Rivian as they lose employees with knowledge to other EV auto companies as investments pour into EV auto makers. https://electrek.co/2020/06/01/rivian-adventure-network-electric-pickup-tesla-staff-charging-network/ FIXED, Had to clean up the Sluts!

Because race cars usually don't have mufflers, resonators, sound deadening....race cars tend to be very loud and raw sounding, whether EVs or ICE powered.

I was told repeatedly that electric motor cars are dead silent- no motor sound, no tire sound, no wind sound, no creaking at the factory-supplied structural cracks.... nothing. What does every second of motion out of this car entail ear-splitting, migraine-level noise???

Interesting to see how people seem to think there are no lower priced EVs when there are. The big issue is that most people do not want the base EVs, they want the fully loaded all the bells and whistles and as such, we are not seeing those sell. I agree that as the charging networks expand and prices come down, that we will see more adoption of the lower maintenance longer lasting EVs over the high maintenance ICE auto's. I also agree with you that the whole push for ICE auto's with 3 banger motors is a joke. Turbo all they want, the life of those engines are going to be short.

Seems daunting. I would be a little chicken to buy that.

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

Seems the incompetency of DC leadership is finally being checked. The IG of the EPA is starting an in-depth review of the process that the current administration took to relax emissions and MPG on the auto industry as it would seem it did not pass the required law for transparency as well as due process. As such, the changes at the EPA could all be rolled back to what they were before the changes were signed by Potus decree. https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-07/documents/_epaoig_notificationmemo_7-27-20_fuel-efficient.pdf

I agree with reg in that ICE vehicles are getting short shrifted in development on purpose to force ppl into inferior, impractical EVs. Barra, for example, has all but admitted this BS and is actually proud of it. What folly. Encore GX/Trailblazer should have had the 1.3t standard, and the 1.5t optional... or better yet, a NA 4 of larger displacement.