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Please go. No one is stopping you. There's daily nonstop service from PHL by their own Lufthansa and some American carriers as well. Since you are seeming slightly anti-American at this juncture, I recommend Lufthansa. And, since you've never shown much of a penchant for foreign languages on here over the years, you will have one hell of a time learning to communicate in German.

So one might say that you’re looking for a “safe space”?

Jaguar.... DeSoto...

English is enough of a challenge at times... Inspiring...

Giving the same love you give me back to you. I dont have you on ignore...so your posts stick out like a sour thumb so there is that... Anyway...I figure you enjoy receiving red downvotes. Since you arent a stranger in giving them yourself every time your "safe space" differs from an opposing point of view.

A buddy’s ‘75 Explorer with Mach-esque striping, orig paint :

I like the brick ramblers. After 3 1/2 years in a spilt level w/ 4 levels incl. the basement, I think my next house will be one story...

I love Ramblers and the year of hell living in Texas, the only bright spots was the BBQ and my brick home on Grapevine lake. Loved the home, have the blue prints as I hope to build it here in Washington some day. Visited my sister who with her partner moved into their Custom Rambler they had built on a horse acre. Some rock work, but mostly various kinds of wood which is common here in the great PNW. As one can see, a totally GM family! Totally 100% German from the north eastern side of the country. Course and I married Korean. Boy did that piss off my grandparents at first, but then they came to love my wife once they met her. Everyone can change and learn to love our Multi-Cultural country and world we live in.

Given that he lives in Amish country, maybe he can speak Amish German...

I can't tell if sarcastic or not... This is a guy on a Facebook group I'm in. It's one bad-@ss Jeep.

Huge repair bills on the cars, though.

Haha, I guess my email put up a wall of self-defense because I got a quarter of a million notifications from "Random Thoughts" within a short span of time which triggered a warning from C&G "please enter a new email address associated with your account because your email is no longer accepting messages". I do have a lot to do in the next few hours though. I am packing my sh!t and moving to Germany, as I'm deathly afraid for my safety here in the USA. I mean seriously.

BMW announced today their new flagship electrical SUV, the BMW iX. This SUV will launch late in 2021 as a 2022 model. The style will likely be controversial as it retains the concepts overly large kidney grill front end but maintains a sleek drag coefficient of 0.25 Cd which is equal to the Tesla X. This AWD SUV has one motor per axles giving a combined 370 kW or 500 horsepower with a 0 to 62 mph of under 5 seconds. A 100 kW battery pack that will give 600 kilometers on the WLTP cycle or 300 plus miles on the EPA cycle FTP-75. These figures are subject to change once official testing is done. The BMW iX has a 200 kW charging controller for DC fast charging that will allow up to 80% charged battery in 40 minutes equaling about 75 miles of range every 10 min. For level 2 home charging, it will take less than 11hrs for a full battery recharge from zero. The interior is a appears to be a two tone renewable material based on past comments from BMW. They have gone with a minimalist interior, but using what appears to be jewel like controls for the doors and center console. One observation is the metal rings in the top section of the seats just below the headrest. One does have to wonder if shorter drivers and front passengers might not hit their head on this. An interesting trend as we have seen Cadillac do this with the speakers built into the sides of the Head rest area on the seats. BMW announced in 2019 that they would have a dozen EVs by 2025 which was later revised to be 25 new electrified models on sale by 2023, majority will be pure ev. View full article

Or how tens of thousands of folks, in a handful of deep red states, signed petitions to secede from the union in 2008 and 2012 when a black democrat became president and was then re-elected. We definitely saw how that worked out.

Best German car ever is, of course, the KR-200.

There are a lot in IL, but they're almost all in the Chicago area. The point, I believe, is so be able to travel with EA rather than just do your daily trips around town.

I checked online; in a state of 9 milllion people, EA current has only 10 stations in New Jersey.

Funny...

Another neat conversion from ICE to EV. Nice workmanship on this conversion...

Yes, I love one-story homes. I much prefer hip roofs to gabled roofs, though. They make the house look more dynamic from different angles. As for Texas, I am a much bigger fan of the Houston area than the Dallas area. I like the southern pine instead of the mesquite. And being able to get to the Gulf in less than an hour. This might crack you up. I've always liked going through new homes, even when I was a kid. In about 1989, I was visiting the Seattle suburbs and was driving around Mill Creek with a college friend, where they were building new homes. They had a subdivision with some 4/2.5s at about $174.9K. They had ONE rambler/ranch model, a 3/2.5, for $156.9K. I loved that house. And, for those days, the price looked reasonable. I was in no way in any position to buy at that time, but I still think about that house and how I'd like to be its owner.

So many things about that are ridiculous. Bad brakes and/or tires to stop. Why would you aim for the building/home unless you actually lost your brakes?

Heh-heh...my ancestry is mostly English, a tiny bit of Scottish, and some French (Alsace).

Thread has been unlocked. You can continue with your various discussions, but please no politics.

Great strudel, great beer, great cars....

I have coworkers who emigrated to Canada due to a number of reasons. Very interesting how people deal with disappointment. On other fronts, very excited as we get near to the configurator and pricing for Rivian November 16th for pre-order customers and November 26th for everyone else. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHd9hpQJVQ2 https://www.instagram.com/p/CHd9hpQJVQ2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Everything on the political front is constantly over-hyped.

Sure...Go Green Or is that going blue? Hmmmmm. Might confuse some folk to the point of pissing them off for them to flee the country...

I checked online--in a state of 11.69 million people, EA currently has only 10 stations in Ohio. Two in the Cleveland metro area--in the east and west burbs along I-90. One a couple hours south on I-77. Next one south on I-77 is Wytheville, Va...263 miles between. (I-77 is the typical route I've used in the past coming from/going to Florida, for example).

People aren't geting any smarter... I would love a single story home. However, in Cinncinatti, Columbus and a lot of places mid century Ranch homes are being torn down left right and wideways to build McMansions. The kids are allright.....and having fun....my Girl by the Temptations.

Its fixable. They are building onto our subdivision, my wife and I jsut ahd a good time walking new homes a few days ago. Maybe Blu wants to reconsider Germany....we know how much he likes bling and 24 inch wheels, and they just won't work well with electric German cars. This was a great song for cruising around back when I was in High school. And yes, just like the song says, the cars back then had 8 tracks... I really dig the police car in the screen cap... EV in the ICE thread, Fords electric Transit Debuts....

Sad Panda for this, why did the guy not check everything first before trying to do a burn out. ?

AWESOME AWESOME EV News today: 6K Energy develops small-particle NMC 811 with UniMelt Plasma Production Platform. https://chargedevs.com/newswire/6k-energy-develops-small-particle-nmc-811-with-unimelt-plasma-production-platform/ What this means is higher energy density for batteries, reduced rare earth elements but increased nickel content and smaller battery size. Win Win Win for all things from EV's to smartphones. Ford & Google conducted survey's in the US, UK and Germany. 60% of the people said they would rather wait longer for delivery via a clean EV powered van than an ICE auto especially diesel powered. This is up 12% from when the last survey was done at the start of this year. Ford has indicated that ahead of the reveal of the Transit family of electric Van options, purchasing interest has exploded with companies putting in reservations for EV vans. USPS had 2 of the 4 finalist auto's to replace the extremely old current fleet that are EV and has indicated EV with a lower maintenance cost is leading this change. UPS, FedEx and many other delivery services are all moving to EV fleets. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1130237_ford-e-transit-vans-growing-demand-for-electric-delivery-services Texas Instrument Announces a new generation of gallium nitride field-effect transistors and controllers for EV charging. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1130236_texas-instruments-boost-electric-car-range-downsize-onboard-chargers Why is this important? These new products allow the onboard charging system of all auto EVs to be reduced in size by 50% while doubling the power density and increasing efficiency. This means that the new 800V onboard chargers in a Porsche or Hummer 1st Edition truck could go to 1,600V charging reducing charge times by half while helping to double the energy density of existing power storage. A visual example is that in the 2nd generation Prius onboard chargers / inverters it was the size of a standard large suit case and now with Toyota's 3rd generation of onboard chargers / inverters they have it down to an over head small suit case. This reduces weight, increases efficiency. Delphi is supplying 800V charging for a number of Luxury auto EV builders as well as others, they have indicated that faster versions was coming but have not committed to what it would be. TI seems to imply that the 800V days will be only a few years before we flip to much faster charging standards. As of today, Audi, Porsche, VW, GM, Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai/Kia/Genesis have all committed to 800V (350kWH) charging which is faster than current Tesla (250 kWH) charging or anyone else.

That's right. To Amish folks, those of apparent European descent who are not part of their religious group would be "the English." That's funny to me, since I don't have any ancestry north of the English Channel, let alone the Alps.

It's so awesome. The guy drives it everywhere as a daily as well and drives to all sorts of events with/for it.

Love that Jeep. I certainly have zero need to own anything European. Both of my Vee dubs were great cars, but I ahve kind of moved on to trucks for the time being.

Kinda makes one want to jump in the pile.. ?

Full brick ranch (rambler, to some) homes resonate with me. They don't build them like they used to (literally and figuratively)!

Excellent news. And this will be the game changer. When fleets start buying electric em masse....the writing will be on the wwall for ICE. I love a good evening fire. Looks like a badass little rig.

Seems FCA during their 3rd quarter earnings call stated to stay tune as RAM will have an Electric RAM Pickup in the near future, but no other details. Guess RAM is not wanting to get left behind by Ford or GM, though as we expect electric trucks from Ford and GM in 2022 as 2023 models, I would not expect RAM to have anything till 2023 at the earliest if not 2024 or 25. https://chargedevs.com/newswire/fiat-chrysler-ceo-talks-about-electric-pickup/

Best thing with leaves is to mow / mulch them, and let them decompose into the grass. 'Lawn vitamins'.

I realize it was the article, not a quote. But I guess you're right; I clicked. Still, how about 'looks great' or something that acknowledges her progress yet isn't utterly ridiculous. "Super sculpted" : What I saw in the article's pic:

Spotted this wildly modified for off roading old ZJ GC across the street.

its a premeditated attempt to suck you into believing you don't have -individual- rights, and have no right to your own point of view...Much less act in your own interest. But the nation is founded on emphasizing the right of the individual within the bounds of not infringing in the rights of others. That's why every bullying attempt at forcibly enacting certain things is to sell it as a 'right', and that you are infringing. It's all certain groups have in most arguments but we are played emotionally to believe our 'life/soul/very existence' depends on it. No, --their-- pocketbook depends on it is usually more the case. Cooperating globally is a great concept but we should not bullied into thinking we as a fairly well to do country should be punished and extorted into giving up all sorts of taxes, fines and moneys to global organizations in the interest of 'cooperation' and rights. Until we understand that the nation was founded on the individual, the being bullied into being involved into every social and political issue will continue. The answer is no, people are allowed to care to varying levels about a myriad of issues.

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I’ve not seen ANY guard letting down in central jersey, yet new cases are up roughly 500%. Problem is, none of the methodologies recommended are 100% effective, and some folk are still going to get sick regardless of what they do. Likewise with future vaccine-recievers.

aftermarket decal? The base engine in the Mustang was a 4.0 V6 from '05-10.