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Covid 19 prognosis for the Oldshurst442 family = a big FAT - which in turn becomes a HUGE + Got r rezults yestr-day just before noooon. Left for work to flip some burgers and dress some hot dogs right away as soon I got the rezult.

And I bet you still complained about interior room. Why couldn’t they just build the car to seat 13 seven foot basketball players ?!

The benefits of Multi-Cultural is that I am happy to tolerate his music since the wife and daughter love him and like all music from all artists, always willing to give it a try. Enjoying me some Garth!

That must be a law abiting shark (yes...intentional spelling mistake for obvious pun reasons) Seeing that the shark was seemingly only wanting to bite the boat, maybe there is a law in Florida for sharks not to bite stupid humans? On a serious note regarding the idiot that wanted to pet the shark: I cant believe the idiot said that the shark wanted to play when the shark showed its belly. Yeah...I think the shark was playing alright. Playing with him in a Machiavellian kind of way. I think the shark was telling him "do that one more time motherphoquer, and you'll end up in here!"

This is refreshing: brand new desktop after just over 10.5 year run on the prior one. ?

Thanks. I think my biggest concern is that the oil got into places it should not be, like sensors. Not to mention simply being able to tell if it has issues. (Like leaking or burning oil) Normally I might just clean it up myself (I started slightly) but it is quite cold out, and I need to check to make sure nothing was effected by oil getting all over. More than likely it should be fine- but since there is a great chance I buy out out at the end of the lease, it is best to be sure.

I realized I shared this on FB, but not here. Took my Equinox for a long drive (it has gone very far for a little while) , and on my way home, could really smell oil coming through the heat vents. When I got home-I opened the hood. No dipstick, and oil all over the engine. Started cleaning a bit of it up- but realized it was going to be a big job out in the cold. Called the dealership where the OC happened. They are going to check it out. I also had to add a little bit of oil as well. I want to make sure they take a good look at it- and clean the engine as well.

Electric bikes are biggest scam ever (and I mean people fooling themselves). You either work and pedal or buy electric bike to ride around.

Hmmmm.... There seems something wrong, but I cant put my finger on it. Seems something dirty is in the air. Cant see it. Its not in the water. That be in Boston 'Cause the Bruins beat that shytty Pennsylvania team...in Boston tonight. Oh yeah! Its clear to me now... Good 'ole Bugsy boy didnt turn left at Albuquerque Nobody put baby in a corner and Sidney didnt seem to care because of it...

Daimler is killing the s-class coupe & convertible, the e-class coupe & convertible, the C-class coupe & convertible, the CLS coupe, one of the GT models, and rumors have floated there will be more. [~ MB dealer webinar via Business Insider, July 2020] Huh.

• '21 Escalade can hit $125K via the current build & price. I've done it. $190K is not "double" $125K. • Mercedes doesn't even build the g-wagoneer; it's farmed out. Their flagship vehicle and someone else builds it. • Escalade-V, CT4 and CT5 Blackwing (Feb 1), CT8 / Celestiq, all in the pipeline.

Classic Dave.

Love this new marketing from GM! Are you willing to join the future? Are you willing to join Generation E? GM-Generation-E.mp4

For Everyone Here in C&G!

Still better than some insipid, nasally K-pop crap.

So NOW you agree that Maybach GLS doesn't compare to the Escalade when you brought it into the post earlier?!?? Or did you just want to sound like a typical conceited Mercedes owner? Will you ever make up your mind? ? 10000/1 in sales Cadillac Escalade to Mayback GLS for a reason and it's not just the cost difference, it's practical usable space and more for your money, something that most reasonable people can agree on. smk4565 Posted 19 hours ago The G-wagen sells well, probably the #1 selling vehicle in the world with a starting price over $125k. The CT6-V was the same price as a base V6 S-class and they killed it off because Cadillac was still not competitive in the segment. Just like the XLR, STS-V, ELR bombed. If any of these top end Cadillacs (outside of Escalade) had any success they'd still be here, GM top brass isn't going to just cut profitable, well selling products. We'll see what $100k Cadillac comes next, but they haven't had a good track record. And sure I will compare a Maybach GLS (which goes up to $190k) to an Escalade, because you said Mercedes wishes they had an Escalade competitor, when in reality they have an SUV that costs up to double the price of an Escalade, and sells better globally than the Escalade. And NOW you also agree with what I stated earlier when you quite comically compared a Kia to a Cadillac and I brought up the high grade leather, real wood, real carbon fiber and real aluminum trim pieces that a Cadillac has that the Kia doesn't.?? Not to mention one is a Luxury make and the other is an Econobox. I think you've once again dug that hole deep enough... USA-1 Posted yesterday at 04:09 PM KIA? That's F'n laughable. Not even close to the XT6 in quality and fit and finish. Can you get real wood and real carbon fiber or real aluminum interior trim in the Kia? No, not even a sq. cm of it. Even the Cadillac leather is several notches above anything Kia has on the road, I believe it's called Pleather in the Kia. Again, you're comparing apples to oranges.

The Horsepower Obsessed video I posted got blocked on the site I think? Anyway...Ill be posting his latest one. Hopefully this video wont get blocked. He has heard rumours that the Z06 will be POBISSIBLY REVEALED in July. THAT doesnt mean the Z06 will be available for sale. THAT rumour could very well be true that the Z06 will be availbale for sale in 2023. But its POSSIBLE that Chevy will REVEAL the Z06 in July! Its not much...but its something!

Definitely not good weather for Camping, hiking riding a bike or motorcycle, or playing basketball outdoors. Feel good song for Friday.

Yep, got nasty up North towards Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon. ADOT closed the I-40 and I-17 North on Tuesday after a huge storm hit. We had quite a bit of rain here in "The Valley of the Sun" Phoenix Metro. Definitely was depressing PNW Winter weather, gloomy gray clouds and constant rain for a couple days, don't miss it.

You do not usually blow transmission lines because you impacted something; that usually leads to a cracked case or leaking pan but the lines would be generally intact. You usually blow lines because of an internal blockage causing a spike in hydraulic pressures.

My point was the 1st truck shows zero signs of having impacted anything; why would it blow a trans line?

Wish you all the best in getting a replacement dip stick and the mess cleaned up. That attention to detail is just not acceptable.

After the Olds Station Wagon, the family went Suburban's and has never really looked back.

Chateau Club Wagon would have been an answer for big families in the 70s... Slope? Or the 1st truck backed up into the 2nd one after spewing it's crap...

Yeah, its a good thing Benz never has to cancel cars buy the dozens. Oh wait. They’re doing that now. See Balths above response about all the cancelled Benz models.

mercedes also produced thousands of sub-100-hp sedans with no power amenities, didn't get around to A/C until circa 1969, offered decades of s-class cars 15 years behind the industry leading edge, killed off their most iconic FI car after only 3 years to build a 4-banger slushbox, floated on the profits of tons of trucks and vans, built a number of failed cheap cars that tried to coast in on the badge, built a flop of a minvan, canceled what would have been a flop of a small pickup they developed with outside engineering help, built a flop of a maybach (Daimler lost 300K euros on everyone built, but kept building them for 10 years), teased dozens & dozens of designs they never produced, cut their gullwing revival off at the knees, copied Cadillac mercilessly while trying to cultivate a true luxury sedan (they just did it again with their mega glass screen (which actually is just a pane over 3 different screens), got caught doing emissions cheating and fined $2.2 billion, adopted/promoted the false narrative that Benz "invented" the automobile, nursing tons of vehicle problems, failures to report recalls, is hopelessly behind on the BE front......

But they built them. They have always had high performance cars going back to 1902. That is why Mercedes is the best luxury brand, they have a reasonably priced A220 or GLB250 and they have $225k S-classes and $300k AMG sports cars and they have every body style, sedan, coupe convertible, wagon, hatchback, crossover coupe, SUV, 4-door coupe, etc.

They never even gave CT6 a chance! So yes, they do cut very well built cars that aren't part of the company's future plans and they were selling very well and very competitive, so do your research. Cadillac dealer buddy of mine said CT6-V Blackwings and most CT6's were selling before they even hit the ground at the dealerships! Price isn't a comparable metric anyway. With what you get from the Escalade it should cost $150k, but GM chooses to go after a larger crowd and they build and sell probably as many Escalade's as all the exotic SUV's you mentioned combined. That Maybach GLS is not a direct competitor to Escalade nice try. How much can it tow? How many can it comfortably seat? Guarantee the Escalade can tow more and it fits more people much more comfortably as well, so you get much more than you pay for. Escalade has an 8,100 lb. tow capacity and 1,640 payload cap. Oh right Mercedes doesn't recommend towing with GLS600 and probably doesn't even have an available hitch. Escalade not the top Cadillac the FLAGSHIP Celestiq is on the way...

Truck has more screen than I want as is. Tesla's door handles on the Model Y were copied from the 'trick' ones on the '69-72 Grand Prixs, (and an upgrade from the buggy ones on the Model S). Drag car is a period piece; gimmicky tech need not apply.

I don't need to sling a 6000lb, 20-ft long truck around like a drag car. I'm building a drag car that's quicker than any Tesla yet built for that (tho the range there will undoubtedly be wretched).

• Alfa is also a niche brand. XT4 outsold the entire brand. Also; it's a 'regular look' car and still no one wants one. • Model S sales peaked in 2018. The 2nd 'refresh' just announced is so mild no one will know anything was done to it other than 2 new wheels. But being 'in the thick' of BE performance/range is what you need to be competitive; if you have to be #1 on the spec sheet, mercedes will NEVER 'compete' with Tesla. A given vehicle isn't a sales leader because of how far it goes or how fast it goes 0-60. It's the aggregate of the entire vehicle; you always try to boil it down to 1 factor. Benz still building the patentwagon in 2021? Markets, approaches, stradegies and products change to meet the same shifting factors in consumers. Look at mercedes' roots, horribly spartan, underpowered, archaic sedans... why did they reinvent themselves as a 'German Cadillac' the way they did?

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Not that there aren't unslightly aspects to the QM2 -- such as the fake rounded stern with conspicuous cheeks when this is in fact a flat transom hull -- but I wasn't talking about the exterior looks of the ship. My point was that the QM2 on-board experience does not measure up to the price. It is about 50% more expensive than the mass market lines but it does not feel any more luxurious or special. In fact, the interior passages were awkward in many places and the ship doesn't have the modern 10 deck atrium and hence didn't feel airy on the inside. For a very big ship it also didn't have entertainment that measured up to the other very big ships. I was on her relatively early in her career... circa 2009 when the ship was about 5 years old.

A better product strategy would be to totally IGNORE CAFE, but amortize the CAFE charges only to vehicles who are above CAFE mpg requirements instead of across the entire lineup. You can buy a non-CAFE meeting car, just pay the insignificant fine. Or you can buy some green mobile that needs to be charged or which has a few thousand dollars worth of fuel saving systems that (I guarantee) is more than the $55 per MPG CAFE penalty.

Ford Motor Company has announced that they are starting production of the Ford Mach-E in China for local sales only. The Ford Mach-E will go on sales fall 2021. Per the Press release link below, Ford will invest $11.5 Billion for 2021 and 2022 for EV development. Ford to Manufacture Mustang Mach-E in China for Local Customers | Ford Media Center

Very Cool 1,800W, 60V electric Mountain Bike. The bike has a 24.5 Ah battery. The bike uses RockShox fork up front with a 29" wheel for better attack angle and traction, but a 27.5" tire in back for better acceleration and torque.

But.... a motor vehicle’s specific purpose is to leave the house.

And you don’t even have to leave your house to pump $100 worth of gas in it either. (And just skipping the fact that you will never get to 625 miles of range on your truck unless it is always empty and you drive slow as dirt.) Oh wait. How many gallons do you need to achieve said range btw?

Kind of looks like a 50s concept car steering wheel, without the chrome. I do wonder about the legality here and in other countries. Still the same body outside with trivial fascia changes. Interior is minimalist and bland.

Outside is exactly the same. Ooo; 2 different rims. Interior remains bland. I'd be completely shocked if that steering wheel was allowed. 10 years and 2 mild tweaks. Sales of the S peaked in 2018. IC truck I'm working on getting has a range of 625 miles. Just saying.

Those are concept pics. 99.9% sure that half steering wheel is not DOT compliant in the U.S. Just think of the lawsuits, "I grabbed for the steering wheel, but nothing was there" The outside looks the same except for a slight front fascia revision. The wheels on the red one are pretty nice, but the blue ones hub cap looking wheels are fugly! At least they changed the main touchscreen to the landscape layout, the portrait style was ridiculous. Under 2 sec. to 60? The average Joe will be passin' out or puking on the reg. from blood loss to their craniums and inner ear with that kind of G force. ?? 520 mi. range EPA is maybe 450 mi. real world, nobody drives as slow or as easy as they do to get those numbers from what I've heard and seen from engineers I know, but still not bad. Wonder how much weight it added with the extra battery packs since they didn't disclose it. Model S and X are approaching the weight of a fullsize crew cab 4x4 BOF truck.

But you understand how averages work, yes? If the average brand new Gov't vehicle is $31K, for every vehicle that's $50K, there has to be one for $10K. For every $60K vehicle, there has to be one thrown in for FREE. Look at the 2017 breakdown volumes below, and tell me how you think they can average $31K per vehicle. Per BATTERY ELECTRIC vehicle. Out of the 595K vehicles (in 2017), 390K are full-size trucks.

Back off of politics and back to Music...

Interesting drone footage....the red stuff is transmission fluid, not blood. The drivers are not bleeding, the trucks are. Although the driver of the green truck is in critical condition.

Is that because they're still not 100% charged?

The G-wagen sells well, probably the #1 selling vehicle in the world with a starting price over $125k. The CT6-V was the same price as a base V6 S-class and they killed it off because Cadillac was still not competitive in the segment. Just like the XLR, STS-V, ELR bombed. If any of these top end Cadillacs (outside of Escalade) had any success they'd still be here, GM top brass isn't going to just cut profitable, well selling products. We'll see what $100k Cadillac comes next, but they haven't had a good track record. And sure I will compare a Maybach GLS (which goes up to $190k) to an Escalade, because you said Mercedes wishes they had an Escalade competitor, when in reality they have an SUV that costs up to double the price of an Escalade, and sells better globally than the Escalade. All these SUVs cost more than an Escalade: Mercedes GLS, Mercedes G-class, BMW X7 (BMW X8 coming soon), Audi SQ8/RS Q8, Lamborghini Urus, Porsche Cayenne, Bentley Bentayga, Rolls-Royce Cullinan, Aston Martin DBX, Maserati Levante, Tesla Model X, Range Rover. That's over a dozen SUVs on market that are positioned above the Escalade and Bentley is working on another, Ferrari working on one as well. Cadillac's problem is they see the Escalade as the top, when it should be more the mid point and clearly they can go above it, because the market is flooded with SUVs costing 2-3 times more than the Escalade.