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Well, Ill be damned! Worked like a charm!!! The first wave came in and I was biting my nails. I thought maybe that the onslaught of attacks would penetrate my Kevlar body armour. I could feel the pouncing slightly on my chest...and then the BIG one came...and...NOTHING! AWESOME~now I could put her on cruise control and let the good times roll!!!

I think Patagonia sounds nice, actually. Love this era of car, love the green, love pontiac, love that it is a two door, love the well preserved Patina, love the sunvisor. Sweet.

You know... So far...Montreal has had 3 snowfalls since late November. The first two were hardly anything. A few 'liberal' snowflakes scared to stick around. (LOL I wanted to make a funny! ) We did end up having a white XMAS...barely. In January we got 4 inches but because the next few days were above freezing, that snowfall didnt stick around either. This would be the forth snowfall. A legit snowstorm they are calling it. But...the temps are frighteningly high that..well...it aint right for a winter season in the North East. I know that winter is faaaaar from over, but in the past, we would be cursing at the TV for another mentioning of snowflakes falling from the sky instead of salivating at the idea of maybe...we could have a decent snowball fight for the first time this season...

Yeah, in thinking about extremes of weather and propensity to calamity in other places I've lived, NE Ohio and Great Lakes region seems pretty safe...

Snowstorm from tonight unto the morning up here. The good ole weather-dudes and dudettes are calling for 6 inches or so. But as compared to hurricanes and tropical storms...Ill gladly take sleet and a ton load of snow over that, thank-you very much! What is it I said earlier today? Brrrrrr? Am I contradicting myself here?

Fresh food and a beach sounds nice really right now with sleet coming down. Part of me wants to live in the Florida Keys again...but then I think about hurricanes and tropical storms.

This little thing looks like a hoot....

brr?

First time in a long time I had to let my car warm up both on the outside and inside the glass so I could go home tonight.....

A Corvette SUV is a horrible idea, they shouldn't do it. However I think GM will do it. The "Corvette" name still means something because it hasn't been watered down or trashed. If GM wants to make a high performance electric crossover, I'd say that is what Cadillac is for. And if they want to make a high performance electric crossover with a crappier interior call it Blazer SS, or GMC Typhoon or make up a new name. Also not a fan of "Mustang Mach-E" because you know, it isn't an actual Mustang. Why isn't it just Mach-E? This goes to a greater problem with how trash the brand image of Ford and Chevrolet are, why they have to call everything Corvette or Mustang, why the Bronco doesn't say Ford on it, etc. Compared to say Tesla, where the brand matters more than the model. Ask a Corvette owner what kind of car they drive, they'll say Corvette, not Chevy, ask a Model S owner and they'll say Tesla. GM needs to make the Chevy brand cool, not trash the Corvette name with SUVs.

Oh, right Got it. Also a 'meh' by association.

My favorite catch phrases and the irony of it all...

B-but it's a generic, FWD, transverse-engined appliance! And yes; quite unattractive.

PS: For the folk that hate the naming scheme of Ford's newest SUV. true. And...it wasnt the Mustang long range either.

93 mpg-e for the Mustang and 111 mpg-e for the Model Y as per that video on top. Both used about 50% of their battery, give or take, going to the mountain. They drove 70 miles to get to the top of the mountain if I understood correcty... Driving 8 miles downhill after they left the mountain, the Mustang gained 3% to the battery through regen. (Im posting tidbits of info as Im listening to the video at the same time Im listening to it. Info that I like or I think is interesting) The Mustang accelerates great between 30-50 mph but has deficiencies as compared to the Model Y and/or other cars in general. The Model Y though is a more sportier ride and faster CUV than the Mustang. (my opinion based on their video: Hate on Tesla all we want, but it does NOT matter WHO test drives these Tesla and what model Tesla IS being tested, it seems that everyone seems to think that Tesla KNOWS how to build a sporty, fun and fast EV...) Going back up the mountain for another 8 miles, the Mustang ate up A LOT of battery power. But the dudes did NOT mention how much the Tesla did. THAT is what I curious about though. They already proved in the first part of the video that the Model Y is more efficient than the Mustang, how much more efficient is it now at THIS stretch is what I wanna know... The Mustang at this point is at 38% battery life and If I heard correctly at the end there, I think I heard the dude say the Model Y is at 45% They finally reached the chargers and the Mustang is at 44 miles left @ 30% charge The Model Y is at 117 miles @ 40% Ill stop it here. What I wanna know is how many miles they actually did at this point and how many hours they drove to get at their first charging point... Model Y dude said they will spend 15 minutes to charge...and that means 15 minutes more than people spend gassing up. Wrong... 10 minutes more. Semantics...I know... But I do NOT appreciate the unnecessary drama... Like I said... What I wanna know is how many miles they actually did at this point and how many minutes/hours they drove to get at their first charging point... THAT would be more helpful to actually trying see if an EV is right for you if long trips are a thing you do with vehicles. Because Ill tell you one thing... When I was travelling with my buddies to Lake George, or Quebec City or even Boston, we HARDLY stopped... Not even to pee. Well, there was ONE time when we DID stop to pee at Plattsburgh on the way to Lake George. But...with my family...the trips we did to Ottawa, and Toronto...and Lake George...it seems we stopped at almost every 30 minutes. Kids get hungry. Wife has a bladder small like a gold fish. Stopping at a food court and killing 15 minutes 3-4 times in a short destination is a gimme for MY family. Doing THAT for an EV, with an EV is apparently not a big deal... And yeah...food courts along the way...DO have chargers... Now...I guess I will found out how the charging went... OK...I got my answer. They travelled 143 miles. I said EVs (mainly Teslas) in 2020 could go 250-300 miles without stopping with full on heat and A/C. It seems I wasnt far off in my assumption. 250 miles is what I was focusing on mainly. In terms of gauges...the Tesla used 172 miles in range and the Mustang 123. Gauges dont mean shyte is what they are saying. Tesla used 56% of its battery pack and the Mach E used 70%. Tesla, because there was many Tesla charging...slow charging Mustang...malfunctioning chargers. After 15 minutes...they both stopped. The Mustang dude, reluctantly because he got a spike in power for a few seconds. LOL. 2 bucks and change for the little electricity the dude used for the Mustang and gained 8%. 8 minutes of charging time. The Tesla dude got billed twice the amount, but git twice as much juice if I was to understand... They drove 180 miles all together. Lots of traffic, and one measly pitstop of 15 minutes. I did not stay for their advantages and disadvantages of both vehicles. I could conclude...for myself... THAT BETTER INFRASTRUCTURE IS NEEDED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA regarding EVs. THAT IS NO FAULT OF EVs AS THEY ARE NOW! The technology is right now is good. Even as long hauling goes. Small compromises that wont affect lives all that much. Covid has been a much more disruption of our daily lives than what an EV will do to us on a long road trip... You could conclude by yourselves as to why the US has shytty EV charging infrastructure, political, environmental and personal biases be included in your own assesments, I dont really care... ...but what I learned today, in 2020 is that 1. an EV is quite capable of doing what an ICEV is doing in 2020. 2. Like in the ICEV world, there will ALWAYS be better/worse, faster/slower, more comfy vehicles/less comfy, smaller/larger when comparing them with each other

True...but that's in the future..not right now. GM doesn't have a unibody, RWD/V8 platform to build a performance CUV ala the Cayenne that they should have built a decade ago...

I came to this realization 2 years ago. First, I heard Louis CK's stand-up comedy routine on God and money and why money and how He put "shyte on the ground for us to eat and mmmmmm bacon... funny bit. And then when I went to Greece on a family trip 2.5 years ago. I thought about what my mommy told me (yes mommy, I will ALWAYS be her little boy...I miss her) She told me when she left her parents at the age of 16 to live in Athens. She told her parents that she is done being a poor farmer's daughter. She will BUY her own bread...not make it herself. And so with THAT thought 2 years ago, I was thinking about what true freedom was. What being rich truly was. What it all meant. I was VISITING Greece...the island paradise part of Greece. I wanted to escape the clutches of the 1st world. I was thinking about the peaches and figs I USED to pluck fresh from the trees as a visitor as even that does not exist anymore on the island paradises of Greece. I was thinking about how my mommy lived back then. I thought about how SHE wanted to and finally did, was to LEAVE THAT kind of life far behind her. For a better way of life. A life NOT as a slave to farm your own food. A life that SHE provided ME with and now, I had the riches to take MY family back to where it all started from... I get to buy...bread, canned peaches and a plane ticket to paradise...yet my mommy...had FRESH figs, FRESH bread and FRESH peaches and the bloody beach at her fingertips... The irony still strongly resonates with me. And now...this lovely message I get to read.

The "FWD / transverse engine" aspect you consistently look down on is rendered 100% non-applicable once you go to battery packs / hub motors.

I liked some of these pics @A Horse With No Name As I wanted to post a B2 Bomber to compliment the pic of the falcon and to comment how the pic reminds me soooo much of a B2.... The internets beat me to it...

Bridge City Hand plane...they make beautiful tools...I ahve a few of their layout and measuring tools. This plane is twelve hudnred bucks...but wicked cool. Actually $1120 before tax....more for you Canadian folk. https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/tools/hand-tools/planes/bench/110556-bridge-city-hp-12-dual-angle-bench-plane?item=17N1810

Meh, Nothing special--remember, this is an AWD/transverse engine generic platform underneath... for a 3 row luxury CUV/SUV, I wouldn't take one over the or a Merc GLE, BMW X5, Lincoln Aviator or the new Grand Cherokee L...

I guess you never paid attention to rallying in the 80s...these made phenomenal race cars, and the street version was quite formidable. Then again, you are a truck guy and not into performance cars.

Problem is GM doesn't have an ICE CUV/SUV platform for a Corvette CUV....the BOF full size SUV platform is too big, and the FWD/transverse engine CUV platform they use for everything else is too mediocre. So the BEV seems to be the most forward-looking approach.

I don't defend Anti-EVs. ocnblu is the only one who is unreasonably dislikes them and no one will change his opinion on the matter. Otherwise as far as I can see everyone else makes valid arguments for and against EVs.

Sure you have seen something like that. Especially with your Italian heritage. Come on now, dig deep into your mind. Its there. You WILL see it. Here...Ill help you out a little bit. Give you a couple of clues. a) Rallye. b) It has a Greek name of the 4rth letter in the Greek alphabet. TA DA! Lancia Delta HF Integrale

Stepped over a personal border tonight. Will report back in 2 hours.

A gm move. A spiral downward. That is the new reality. It's like a childhood stolen.