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From where my son is hiking Saturday, snow will be gone but... https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/washington/granite-creek-trail--2?ref=header

oh look, the server bill just came in.... I guess I’ll have to decide if I want to pay it anymore if fucking adults can’t act like adults.

Q: What the egg say to the boiling water? A: I can't get hard, I just got laid.

Well, a second person got themselves put into a 5 day timeout. This is not Reddit or 4chan. This is a place for respectful discussion about cars. I don't care if I have to ban everyone except Balth, Horse, Robert, and Dave. After the year we just had the very least we can do is just be nice to each other. But if you want to keep acting up.....

Nothing wrong with a little Barry White.....

Gotta get many other things back and manufactured in the home field. ESPECIALLY away from China. But Id be happy if we (as in the USA...but for Canada too) could get the essential fundamentals back if it only BE just that.

Looks like my truck will just squeak out before the shortage (I expect) hits GM truck plants. Gotta get these critical fundamentals back & manufactured in the home field.

https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2021/03/30/motortrend-says-e-ray-corvette-will-be-quicker-than-the-c8-z06/ Corvette SUV Coming in 2024 We led first with the E-Ray news but the bigger news for MT Confidential is that the Corvette SUV is real and will make its debut in 2024. Built on top of the GM’s Ultium BEV (battery electric vehicle) platform, the electric Corvette SUV “will be a four-door, four-seat, performance-tuned crossover with key design cues lifted from the mid-engine C8.” The column also “whispers” that the crossover may not be the only four-door electric Corvette in the line-up as a four-door rival for the Porsche Taycan sedan is also under consideration.

Got this on vinyl the other day and it was almost a shame to break the shrink wrap on it.

I's a good boy. ?

Because the songs didnt need to suffer the same fate. I love these sings anyhow.

^ that white GP looks like the rental I had in Oregon back in '05 when I got stuck for 7 hours to go 20 miles in an ice storm on I-5.

I will step out and predict Tesla will at some point be forced to go to a franchise model. There’s very real & long-running reasons national (and international) corporations do- getting embroiled in hundreds or thousands of locations directly, with advertising, hiring/firing, advertising, taxes, local regulations.... it’s a logistical nightmare. Gas stations, fast food... MOST national businesses are franchises. Corps do not want to burden of dealing with such a wide network. Tesla right now is TINY. Right now, Tesla has been coasting, alone in the EV field, zero advertising budget. Supposedly in 9-14 years, they’ll be 1 player in a massive league of players, and they’re going to have to advertise & franchise if they want to keep growing/become a major cog.

I did... I pulled yours for the next 5 days. Edit: Because you are still doing it... I made it 7.

Seems to be right. Model X starts from $80k too but performance version that can do 0-60 in about 2.5sec is $100k. So this might be as fast or almost as fast but slightly cheaper than Tesla. Ford Mach E GT will be slower but it will cost around $60k.

Cool race. To be fair, I bet all of these cars will eat EV6 alive on a track. Straight line acceleration is EVs biggest trick. Even base model 3 goes 0-60 in 5sec and performance model in 3.5sec. And as @daves87rs mentioned will be interesting to see the price. I bet this one will be close to at least 80-100k.

Q: What do you call someone at Berkeley on a scholarship? A: A "free radical."

It’s cool, but it’s just another super car EV. I’, afraid to see the price. If you tell me it starts at 25,000, I would be impressed! problem at the moment is that all we see the expensive stuff, not what the average Joe is going to drive. It is cool looking though....

Hence the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Originally, I wanted to do gold hued early 1970s cars within those mid level luxo cars to match the soundtrack. But I wasnt finding any. I didnt want to do a 1966 Toronado. I wanted an early '70s motif. The Buick Boattail Riv had a hue that could have worked, but I couldnt find anything on the others. The Good: Buick The Baaaaaaad: Chrysler The Ugly: Mercury

Great race of the EV6 against various other auto's. @oldshurst442 @ccap41 @balthazar @Robert Hall @ykX @daves87rs @riviera74 @surreal1272

I disagree with you, Rivian already has a couple dozen delivery van in the greater LA area and will have another dozen or so in the San Francisco area. The plan is to have over 30,000 by the end of the year being used on top of the R1T (June Deliveries) and R1S (July Deliveries) to start, I honestly think they will ramp faster with far better quality than Tesla and on a product far more people want. Tesla, aka Musk is stretching himself far too thin for more look at me narcassistic life than building and delivering quality profitable products. I expect Rivian to out do Tesla in the US at a faster pace than Tesla has been growing in a shorter time frame.

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1131744_2022-kia-ev6-with-tesla-model-y-beating-acceleration-and-charging-the-stinger-of-evs The EV6 is Kia’s first dedicated electric vehicle Kia’s claiming quicker acceleration times for its top EV6 than what Ford has teased for the Mustang Mach-E GT Performance Edition or what Tesla currently claims for the Model Y Performance. It also charges in less time. The EV6 is a five-seat hatchback. Kia describes the silhouette of the EV6 as “crossover-inspired” and “designed to deliver something different in the crossover class,” so it’s an entry that, at first look, might appear like a car or a utility vehicle. The EV6 will be offered in six different variants. EV6 and EV6 GT-line models will offer a choice of 58.0-kwh or 77.4-kwh battery packs, with rear- or all-wheel drive. Power figures start at 167 hp and 258 pound-feet of torque with the small battery and RWD to 321 hp and 446 lb-ft with the larger battery and AWD. The top-performance EV6 GT version offers 577 horsepower and 546 lb-ft, and is capable of getting to 62 mph in 3.5 seconds. The EV6 GT version gets an exclusive software-based limited-slip differential for more able all-weather handling. While the performance part of it depends on the battery and configuration, all versions are capable of charging from 10% to 80% in just 18 minutes, using 800V fast-charging (exact power not yet disclosed). It can recover 62 miles of range in less than 4.5 minutes (in rear-wheel-drive form, with the larger pack). On the range front, there’s not a lot of news to report quite yet. The EV6 will get WLTP range results up to 510 km (317 miles). EPA-cycle results aren’t yet available, though based on other EV results it might equate to nearly 300 miles—meaning that it might also be on par with the Model Y Performance's current 303 miles. The same platform is due to underpin seven of the 11 battery electric models from Kia due by 2026, as Kia targets 880,000 annual global sales of battery electric models by 2030—with hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and battery electric models together adding up to 40% of its sales by then. Meanwhile Kia disclosed that it expects to sell about 100,000 EV6s annually, with just 20,000 of those headed to the U.S. (30,000 will be sold in its home Korea, and 40,000 will go to Europe).Kia notes that it will be available for online reservations starting March 30 in some markets. The company revealed that first deliveries won’t happen until early in 2022. Exact U.S. details are yet to come.

The Scion xB (the bB in Japan) is the closest thing that Toyota did to match this vehicle. They sold well for their time before Scion itself was canceled. The closest thing NOW would be a KIA Soul. Imagine that: a KIA Soul EV at about 70% off of retail selling extremely well in China (albeit a GM joint venture product). Too bad GM does NOT sell the Trax here at about $12,500 or so. That would really fly off the dealer lots.

Seems like I missed quite the evening.....

I said EXACTLY... then went on to implicate and berate a hero of the left from over 75 years ago without without actually naming him, his position or his political affiliation. But I guess it still hurts the moderator's leftist sensibilities.

You know, there is a big difference between discussing a "pick up truck" and saying, you don't understand sh@t, "pick up trucks" are the best there is, without ever owing one.

Jesus Christ, No, it does not. That's why I asked because I don't ever recall saying something like that. I saw the conversation the other day but I was not part of saying one cannot talk about wanting something without actually buying it, hence the Vette and Porsche talk. Sorry, but when you tag somebody in a comment, it makes the whole thing look like you're talking to the tagged person. What did I say that was hypocritical? Ignore him, nah. He's waaaaay too soft and easy to get under his skin. He joined our facebook group with a bunch of old Motor Trend guys and quit in a day because he couldn't take jokes. 3 Ply. I never said you were leaving. I said "You're welcome to leave."