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Yes, a hearty Happy Canada Day greeting to our Canadian members - and Canadian members we don't see much of anymore - from those of us, such as me, who like Canada a lot!

(Still looking for the part where number of recalls=reliability and finds nothing)

So Monroe gave me back the Olds and said nothing was wrong with the brakes. She drove perfectly normally the entire drive home... I do have a leaking shock and I failed inspection from a crack in the frame, so I'll have to get that checked... but brakes I'm told are fine.

Ah, much cooler outside. Hoping our west coast peeps get a cool down very soon……

Again, recalls do not equal long term reliability. On that same site, for Chevrolet, it's 7 pages to Toyota's 4 for 2020 model year cars. Hell, there are 4 pages for GMC alone. Are GMCs overrated as well?

Unless there's an ABSURD number or recalls and issues(Aviator) it's just not something I really care about if I were buying new. They'll all be taken care of under warranty(obviously) and you'll get a loaner vehicle while yours is being worked on.

With our Heatwave this week Cora spent plenty of time on the cold wood floor napping.

@oldshurst442 Those are some weird looking auto's. I think I would rather have one of these:

Beardsley and Henry napping in my office this morning.

RIGHT?!? Somebody posted about that in a Facebook group I'm in a few months ago and I literally had to go to Dodge's website to confirm because that's ANCIENT. The 5spd auto in my dad's Tacoma certainly is not great. I'm just not a fan of the engine/trans combination. You really have to bury the throttle to get it to shift OVER 2000rpm. It's all about low revs and feels extremely lethargic. It also has the worst cruise control I've ever used. It'll accelerate to well over the set speed down hills, then wait until you're a few mph under the set speed to go almost full throttle to speed up to ~3mph OVER the set speed again when going up a hill. It also takes a couple seconds to initiate once you hit "set". You hit set, let off throttle, it'll slow down 1-2mph then speed back up to your set speed. It's pretty much only decent on flat ground. *end rant*

I'd challenge that with the Dodge Journey and its 4spd auto that's still around.

Me not like being a red state! What is this about again? ?

Automakers will get there by 2035. Battery tech will be figured out, EV pricing will be more like current gas powered pricing. By 2035 people won’t even want a gas car, like who today wants a cell phone from 2005? Or a TV from 2005? Or a V8 from 2005 with 300 hp that gets 17 mpg when a turbo 4 can make 300 hp now and get 27 mpg. Tech changes over 15 years.

*sigh* yeah... The Lightning have got everything. 1. The offense 2. the defense 3. the goalie 4. the big guys 5. the fast guys 6. the play off experience 7. the reigning Stanley Cup champs The Habs have got the goalie. The Habs have got the heart. But the Habs also are 2-3 pieces away from being true Stanley Cup champs including the knowledge of what it really takes to win the Cup. Suzuki and Caufield the last game cost a goal because they let up just a tad in back checking. But they are rookies. Caufield barely had a handful of games played before the play offs started. As I posted the Habs/Lightning map, Lightning scored to take the 2-1 lead with .03 seconds left in the 2nd... SHYTE!!! But THAT is how and why champs become champs in all sports. The little miracles that happen that champs seem to be on the right side on... Yeah...the Habs need tonight. If not. Tampa becomes Champs 2 in a row. EDIT PS: Tampa also circumvented the rules just a tad. Loop hole that NEEDS to be closed. 18 million over the cap because of the injury list thing, but the rules dont punish teams and allows this for play offs... Crap if you ask me...

Stud (usually I'd post a picture of myself here, but I wouldn't want to make my fellow posters jealous and mess with their fragile egos. I'm much too modest for such things...)

I would never even consider gutting my vintage vehicles; there's literally no reason to.

I am more than happy to convert my 1994 Suburban to a BEV. Time to leave the smell and mess of ICE behind.

No need to flush all that money- it's grandfathered. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

The pods are coming! The pods are coming! Acceleration limiters are coming next, mark my words.

Yeah... but it burnt to the ground FASTER THAN ANY OTHER SEDAN!!

In 2019, the European Union passed a law quietly that will have many shocked mad. Starting in 2022 across all European Countries, new auto's ICE, Hybrid, BEV, etc. must have speed limiters technology installed. This is a combination of GPS and local maps stating what the posted speed limit is so that the computer then will not let you go over the posted speed. Lucky as the story states, rare chance that speed limitation will come to North America for now. Are Speed Limiters Coming to American Cars? (thetruthaboutcars.com) According to this latest story, seems the chip shortage is adding another item no longer available on GM trucks/suvs, HD Radio. The Ongoing Chip Shortage Just Added HD Radio To Its List of Victims - GM-Trucks.com

for 1.3 million, you could have a vaporware, Audi Quattro inspired EV https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36879338/1980s-audi-quattro-homage-e-legend/ The car will be constructed around a lightweight carbon-fiber monocoque and a 90.0-kWh battery, which the company claims will provide 249 miles of range according to the European WLTP methodology. Although no specifics on the electric motors were provided, the EL1's 805 horsepower will be sent to both the front and rear axles. E-Legend says that this is enough oomph for the EL1 to zip to 62 mph in 2.8 seconds, to 124 mph in less than 10 seconds, and on to a top speed of 158 mph.

• If I walk out my door, and my vehicle isn't in the driveway waiting for me / doesn't fire up & drive, that's 'unreliable' in my book. I 'relied' on it doing its job and it couldn't. Maintenance is one, expected thing. Running to the dealership 3 or 4 times a year to fix something unexpected the OEM did wrong is a PITA. "Is your car reliable?" 'Sure is!' "Wh-where is it right now?" 'At the dealer getting its engine sludge cleaned out, it'll should be done by the end of the week. But it sure is reliable!' "Didn't you have the front subframe replaced just last year?" 'Yep, but they gave me a loaner car that time, too.' "How... how is that 'reliable'?" 'Well, when it works, it sure works!'

@David I dont see a difference...

You were really wanting this: Poor Mustang!

I was kinda hopin' for something else

That was a long time ago. And even then, that famous Toyota reliability was on a few select models. As many tough and reliable cars and trucks they sold in America in the 1970s and 1980s, Toyota had as many shyteboxes, rust buckets and unreliable crap in that same time frame. But nobody talks about that. Today, what Toyota does better than everybody else: Nothing really. Well 1 thing. They have a loyal following. A braindead flock of people if you ask me...

Happy Canada Day! At the same time Go HABS Go!

Holy hell! I forgot they were still sporting a four speed, four pot in those. Good lord! I'll take any year 5 speed operated 4 Runner over even the best and "newest" Journey!

Tores Del Paine national park, Chile Hockey

Wood

Must. Win!

Pro Trump States versus Pro Biden States? Move over Cowboys...America has got a NEW team!!! GO HABS GO

Yup... she tried to kill me too when I tried to have a looksie under her skirt too... Wait! Wut?

Toyoter reliability is marginal, they’ve been recalling just about everything they’ve built for the last 15 years to fix either assembly mistakes or engineering mistakes. It hasn’t been 2005 in a long time.

There might not be a universal standard for everyone that is unilaterally good for everyone. That is a true statement that resonates in all areas of life. But... Regarding gasoline for individual human transportation-al needs, yeah...change NEEDS to be done. We as humans cannot continue going on with that. That HAS to change. It aint about money. There are things MORE important than money regarding the health of the planet. Oh no! The planet WILL survive. It will be sick a little bit. The living things on it will perish. Not all. Some will survive. But life adapts. Life will survive. The planet will survive and nourish the living things that would have adapted to the new change. Change ALWAYS happens. Whether we like it or not. And a universal standard for everyone is evidently NOT for everyone. Only the strongest survive and adapt to the new change... Humans on the other hand, might NOT survive the way we are going on about. We are poisoning our food and water the way we are going. We NEED to change that path we are on. The path that we have decided upon might NOT be THE right path either. But we NEED to change something. If we as a species see that using batteries as a fuel source for our individual human transportation-al needs aint good for our future either, well, we will need to change that too eventually. But our quest to not kill ourselves NEEDS to continue. Maybe you dont believe that gasoline as a fuel source is detriment to our survival, but it is... Its not about "wanting" to change. (From gasoline to batteries as a fuel source) Its a NEED to change. No choice. We are poisoning our food and water sources... yes. Well...no. When scientists and engineers and scholars, etc, decide upon a thing, its good up until a new better way is found to do it. Knowledge, knowledge of technology, new materials... Whale blubber was once a way to light our homes. It was a good way for awhile. We found a way to produce electricity and that took over for then next 100 years. Coal, nuclear, hydro electric power... Coal was good for awhile. It no longer is a viable way. Nuclear? Yeah...nuclear. Is it good? It has it ups. Huge ups. But the downs are really really bad...for our planet. @David posted what a European Nordic country wants to do with storing the nuclear waste down down down Earth's crust buried in cement tombs good for 1000s of years... SURE! LETS DO THAT! Bury the waste DIRECTLY in the earth so if their is ANY leakage of any kind...because nothing leaks right? Lets bury the waste DIRECTLY in the earth so we could also poison the earth from the inside... Lets rot her out inside and out... We our smart enough as a species to understand that whatever we decide upon, there will be results that we didnt account for. We SHOUDNT be RELUNCTANT TO ADJUST again and ADAPT FOR OTHER CHANGES... As a species, for 10 000 years...that is all we HAVE been doing anyway...

If everything is 'wanting' to change, then nothing currently in use is any good. And if nothing at any time is any good, then it stands to reason the change will also not be any good. OR... some things may well have evolved to a point they are optimized, and are not in 'need' of 'change'. That is certainly very real. Counter-question : should General Motors be shut down / discontinued, in order for other to 'have their shot' at being a 'major player'? That would be a huge 'change'...

One would have to assume that if a person leaves their long-term spouse for a life with another, it is due to change that could not work for that individual. Change is change and for some it is good, for others it is to cling to a resistance of change. I have personally found those that change are usually resistant to change compared to those that talk out their issues and work through the changes to embrace a better life with their long term spouse together. Course some change as they want better and need to change due to the resistance to change of the spouse. I am going to go out and say that those that want to stay with their long term spouse will work through the issues which usually does include change to embrace a better life. I also acknowledge that not all do. Let me ask this question; How is life better if we stop learning, stop improving ourselves, our society, our life? Stagnation is what kills society, life and people as proved by science. Those societies that thought they have achieved the best and needed no further change have died and are now history notes in human history. IMHO The auto industry is the same, without change, companies die! Change and improvements to the products and services provided is what allows companies to survive decades if not millenniums.

Slacking my way through the day! Slack rocks!

I'll also go ahead and predict another PR problem for Big Gov't with some groups for "gutting emissions standards" (by pushing back for 5 years). Like the last time an auto-related standard was allowed to remain as is instead of a future accelerated standard. Let's me ask this question; if a person leaves their long-time spouse to live/start a new life with another, do they therefore 'embrace change'? Not all change is automatically & unilaterally good for everyone. There is no 'universal standard'. In order to see issues clearly, that always has to be on the table.

They have other options, too. Heavily fine those that buy IC (randomly & without warning), or 'imminent domain' the IC vehicles and auction them off for funds for further BE incentives. Perhaps jail time for the IC consumers, that's usually a behavior modifier. But seriously, these arbitrary numbers based on absolutely nothing have almost zero chance of being met. ^ I believe you were talking about Big Gov't here. B.G. has no accountability, so they have no literal need to 'cover their ass'. Which is why what's actually going to happen is what I initially stated- they'll just shrug & do nothing other than come up with yet another completely arbitrary date based on nothing. What's been unsaid here is that the contingency that does not want BE (and we have NO IDEA -when push comes to shove- how large that contingency is), there will undoubtedly be a run on IC vehicles the closer the supposed 'ban' looms, swelling those IC numbers / reducing the BE market share percentage. A temporary inverse bell curve.

For those that love to get dirty and play in the mud: Seems the Raptor and Ram TRX are about to get some V8 loving Competition!!! No Diesel, but the 6.2L V8 with 10spd transmission according to this story. 2023 Chevrolet Silverado ZR2 Pickup Truck: Our Exclusive Details (musclecarsandtrucks.com)

Has the Gov’t stated the protocol if BE sales in ‘25 are only hitting -say- 6 or 7%? Will they halt IC sales to meet the (completely arbitrary) percentage… or just shrug?

I see you and raise you American Style!

Neat photographs of elephant sculpture...

Seattle heat wave and my crazy day due to some things that failed due to the heat had me laughing when I saw this. Remembering the 90's Guess all those kids grew up with a warped sense of humor. Too Funny!