Leaderboard

Only in New Jersey I guess! @oldshurst442 I bet your sandwich mess was not as bad as Spaghetti mess.

He upvoted me, that is a feature, not a fault. Now if I get downvoted twice....that is a fault not a feature.

^ You're still going to need to upgrade the suspension & brakes (for the greatly increased weight). Brembos, or be branded a luddite! ?

June 29th 2021 Lincoln released online via their YouTube channel the work of their latest push for luxury and the creative boundaries in transportation design. The goal was to challenge 4 teams of the ArtCenter College students in Southern California to tell a meaningful story of the future of luxury transportation. The four teams were built with each team having a team of students from the following disciplines: Film Enterainment Illustrators Animators The mission for each team was to envision a Lincoln vehicle of 2040 and beyond, but the world in which those vehicles would live, even the lives of the people who would drive them. Lincoln asked just not for great looking vehicles, but a great narrative, rich storytelling and understand the ecosystem in which the concept vehicle would live. Each team was guided by the Lincoln promise of Quiet Flight. The goal of creating ultimate sanctuary for human transportation while conforming to the company's CASE acronym of Connected, Autonomous, Shared, and Electric. To ensure diversity of ideas, each team was assigned a vehicle type to be represented as follows - a two passenger, a four passenger, a four passenger with elevated ride height and a six passenger vehicle. The executive team at Lincoln was awe struck and inspired by the presentations of Quiet Flight DNA. To quote the Lincoln press release: Collectively, the four concepts embody a wide range of futuristic, luxurious Lincoln vehicles. From a monitor on the ArtCenter College of Design campus in Pasadena, to dozens of other monitors across the country, the animated stories came to life. The Lincoln Glider sedan, taking cues from classic Zephyr and Continental models, is the inspiration for a short film, “Now You Drive,” which opens with Dominic in the driver’s seat of a futuristic two-seater. The 36-year-old Lincoln designer heads into the city to pick up his father, Dolan, who is paralyzed. After storing his dad’s wheelchair in a dedicated slot in the car, Dominic says, “Dad, now you drive.” As the vehicle’s gas and brake pedals disappear into the firewall, Dolan marvels at a car smart enough to take over some of the driving duties for him – allowing him to get behind the wheel again for the first time in years. In “Anniversary,” a four-passenger Lincoln vehicle leverages its digital technology to enable its passengers to connect the present and the past. In celebration of their 30th wedding anniversary, Julianne and Greg set out to revisit some favorite spots from their youth. As they reminisce about the moments that bind them and re-explore the path of their relationship, their Lincoln sedan is able to access digital images of the past and display their fond memories on the dashboard. The future of the family SUV is envisioned in “Amongst the Stars,” with tech advances that give passengers access to features such as touch-screen windows. As astronaut Claire Boron prepares to take her first steps in space, she recalls her first close experience with the stars on a family trip to White Sands National Park. Riding in a four-seat Lincoln, she gazes through the windows and moonroof and first tastes the excitement that has come to shape her life as an explorer of the unknown. The film “Ensemble” imagines next-level autonomous driving, putting a group of musical artists in the cabin of a six-passenger luxury cruiser that more closely resembles a well-appointed living room. Ahead of their opening show, the six musicians find sanctuary as they glide through a bustling, fast-paced city in a self-driving vehicle that enables them to luxuriate in peace and comfort as they get ready to perform. While the four teams delivered on the assigned challenge, they also delivered so much more by also presenting images of what they see even normal driving BEVs should be like on the inside and out. The students believe electric auto's will allow the passion of flowing designs to return in ways that have never been thought of in the last couple of decades. Lincoln continues to strive forward as a top tier luxury auto company in the US and now with the top sales satisfaction. Lincoln Earns Top Spot in J.D. Power Sales Satisfaction Index Study for 2020 | Lincoln Media Center 2020 U.S. Sales Satisfaction Index (SSI) Study | J.D. Power (jdpower.com) ArtCenter College of Design Students Imagine Lincoln Quiet Flight in 2040; Push Creative Boundaries in Transportation Design | Lincoln Media Center View full article

• Can you imagine dealing with that blooming onion of corporate bullshit as a designer?? Holy crap. • Don't care for the 'Neo-classic' coupe proportions above; they're largely terrible, not remotely production-possible and it's riding like a Jeep. This is not a future for Lincoln (or anyone).

GLS from the outside looks like a $40K SUV… tops. This looks twice as expensive:

God, I love potato bread ... and potato buns for hamburgers and hot dogs. The problem is that I will snack on these buns late at night, so that I don't have enough for the hamburgers and hot dogs on hand.

Agree, I think they have some Luxury Auto Executives that see the Future and realize they can take it to the next level of Luxury Quiet Flight!

Ban Gioc, Vietnam...

@Drew Dowdell This was the post that had Olds with double votes and now it does not show it. Very weird. I am thinking it corrected itself once others also voted on the post.

I was on the motorcycle so I couldn't get a pic... but this morning I saw a Ford Transit with GMC badging on it. I looked at it and it didn't register, and then a half mile away I'm like

Which post was this? I'll report it to the software vendor as a bug.

There is always Cornwall, Ontario. Hey look! A water tower!

Canadians are worth double what Americans are worth in the market place, I guess....

A little Soundgarden through a resurrected 5th gen. iPod video.

For our own David Felt... For Balthazar... For Drew, a motorcycle pic i like... For Oldshurst... I love this photograph... Moar vintage... Miss Winston from 1974 Buick for TC Bob, Robert Hall, and Drew... 50's cars just have the look, love this photograph.

Worth it for the growth rate they have, up 50% last year (when the industry overall was down 16%) and up 54% this year.

Some folk are resistant to change / progress. Leading edge tech is where it's at, and well worth it. Upgrade every vehicle in the driveway, immediately; one-sided piston calipers are obsolete.

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.

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'...

Unfortunately, this sentence is only half-right. Only 50% correct. Yes, Quebec is Canada's second most populous province. But no...it aint behind British Columbia. Ontario would be the province that Quebec is behind in most populous province. Quebec would be the LARGEST in area. Ontario being the second largest in area. But in terms of population, the roles are reversed. British Columbia is in 3rd place in both in terms of area and population.

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.

Very true, there is that contingency of folks that hate change and will fight to the end and so your right an inverse bell curve of ICE sales at the end.

I was wondering that and followed the links in the press release. They say if the difference is more than 4% they will allow a 5yr push out of the end sales date. I would have to assume which I hate assumptions that they are using that to cover their ass for not hitting their sales goal. Course with companies like Ford going all BEV in the country for production that the focus will be on moving to BEV ASAP for people. Guess @oldshurst442 will have more of an incentive as they roll out this summer expanded gov rebates to incent people to buy bev. Big question is will the gov incentives still apply to an auto I want that I have to wait till 2022 or later to get? Rivian is currently saying people who order their SUV or Truck are looking at late 2022 or early 2023 for delivery.

Was watching the hockey game last night. A commercial is playing and the song used is a new cover of we will we will rock YOU! I wake up this morning with it in my head and I still cant seem to shake off the guitar solo. So, here (hear)... a whole hour of it!

OMG…