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@surreal1272 Happy Birthday!!! You are 1 day younger than my cousin... 2 and a half months older than me.

Id take a peak at the links. https://insideevs.com/news/553972/us-bev-sales-october-2021/ https://www.ev-volumes.com/ About Toyota, I agree with you. About EV sales and percentages and hype machine comments and automakers walking back EV commitments...I dont agree with you.

Commemorative pistons given to employees in Plant 9, following the discontinuation of Pontiac V8 production. 14 million+ Pontiac V8s.

I found this photo and it was incorrectly captioned as the "Andrea Doria." It is not. It was the replacement for the "Doria," the "Leonardo da VincI," upon seeing a few lounges with picture windows all across the lower part of the forecastle. This might even be its maiden arrival to New York, with the fireboats spraying water and other watercraft remaining downriver by the Statue of Liberty. There are also more tugs than needed and a helicopter circling above. It served from 1960 to 1978. And it got repainted with the new white Italian Line livery, with the green stripe and hull, after about 5 or 6 years of being in service. And I was on it as a toddler on an eastbound crossing out of NYC. I don't remember a thing. But those were the days.

Absolutely, isn't one of the biggest perks of going EV to save quite a bit of space which can (should) be used as a frunk? Or, at least repurpose the hood/frunk area for something else. An EV without a frunk just doesn't make sense to me, unless the vehicle is pretty small. That's where I give the Bolt a pass (and other compact vehicles). It's a small enough vehicle that packaging still dictates that space is needed for powertrain components. If freakin' FORD can make a frunk on a Mach-E, then Mercedes should be able to make a frunk on an S Class-sized vehicle.

One of the key factors in maintaining battery performance is whether the car comes equipped with a heat pump and battery warmer or not. The heat pump scavenges waste heat from additional sources to warm the cabin. The battery warmer is like a block heater, but for batteries. On some EVs (mostly the cheaper ones) it is an option or not even available. I'm fairly certain it is standard with the Teslas. Li-Io batteries don't do well at lower temperatures and using their own electricity to warm them up helps to provide additional range. I would bet all the candy in my stocking that the EVs above that have the largest performance degradation in cold weather do not have heat pumps while the ones that do have one. And just like a block heater, an EV heatpump isn't needed in Texas or Florida, so it makes sense that the less expensive EVs make it optional when it is available. Hyundai makes it part of a very extensive $3,500 convenience package. Kia makes it available on a $1,100 Cold-Weather package that also includes a heated steering wheel. Looking at that chart, it seems the combination of a heat pump and battery warming is the key combination to range much like Direct Injection + Turbo charging made a huge difference. The Bolt has battery warming, but it only operates between 30% and 90% charge, it does not have a heat pump, is uses the equivalent of a large hair dryer to warm the cabin. The Teslas have all had improvements to their battery temperature management over the years, the older ones saw large range drops in cold weather. However, you'll notice the Model Y actually has a slight improvement in range in cold weather... it was the first Tesla to come with a heat pump. The Model 3 did get it starting with the 2021 model year, but with the way Tesla does model years, not every 2021 Model 3 may have one. So, since the chart doesn't specify the model year tested, the results shown for the Model 3 are likely 2020 or older. So if you're shopping for an EV and live in a colder climate, you want an EV with both a good battery warmer and a heat pump to get the most range. Also, keeping the car plugged in overnight will keep the battery nice and warm for when you leave in the morning.

• Trans is all buttoned up now- new front & rear seals, pan gasket, filter. Exterior cleaned off, linkage gone thru/lubed. It's off to the side, waiting. • My helper did a cursory cleaning of the cylinder heads- removed grease & flaky rust. • Finished deburring the lifter galley & block exterior. Going to take the block & heads to the engine builder next week, along with my brother's '65 GTO 389.

Despite the 'evidence' that C&G says I am 40, I am a handful of years ahead of you, and often feel like trampled death. You know you're getting old when you open your eyes in the morning and think "OK, what's going to hurt today?'

And right now, I think you give too little credit. We will skip the fact that pretty much until the last 10-15 years, the main objector to the EV movement wasn't the automotive industry. That would be big oil and that is a simple fact, because they have put themselves in the pockets of everyone concerned for well over a century and now they are seeing their influence slowly wane with more automakers committing to ZEVs. Not that they won't stop trying but the grip has weakened over the last 10-15 years or so and will continue to do so at this rate. I'm out. Time for an early BD cocktail and much deserved rest.

Oh good grief. I really don’t have the time to explain it to you in detail but quite simply, this has been in motion since the Obama years. It’s a known fact. The “180” was just being “on the ready” but every single one knew that the EV writing was on the wall long before a whole eleven months ago when Biden first took office.

301 I believe... too bad they didn't keep the 400 rolling thru '81. You old codger. HBD.

Ditto on the birthday greetings @surreal1272 ! Just in time to be photographed in your bassinet under the Christmas tree, if your folks took such a photo. What was the last PMD engine that rolled off the line ... a 265, a 301, another one?

Literally not a chance of that happening (for automakers). And reports widely vary on projected growth because there is still a lot of product that has to come out between now and 2030. Too many unknown variables to sound that certain. I know this. This has been in motion long before Biden so...

In honour of National Lampoons Christmas vacation. The year goes by and I always forget that a baby blue Continental is quietly parked slightly out of frame minding its own business until l I see the movie again. I get all giddy looking at it and New Year's Day comes along and I forget the car until... the following year. And the cycle continues... And yeah, Im watching the movie with my wife right now as I type this. I gotta say, its my favorite XMAS movie.

Damn those are UGLY!

A search locally turned up a couple 2012-2014 Camry Hybrids around $10k with 130-165k miles, and one 2008 Hybrid with a little over 100k miles. The lowest mileage seems to be a 2005 w/ only 59k for $9999.

Has Mercedes made an EV worth a damn yet? I mean, the EQS isn't a bad vehicle, it just looks like complete crap. Why somebody would consciously choose a vehicle that looks as jellybean as that vehicle is beyond me.

I'm sure you read the comparison between the Air and EQGarbage and the praise on how well Lucid packaged the Air's interior saying it was as spacious as the S Class/EQS. I'm sure you can figure out which is which based on the below measurements/capacities. I'm positive you didn't even do your own research here so I'll show you.

Cite an actual the year of said Camry that you think would sell for $10K. The only models I have seen (via Autotrader) that can sell for that kind of coin are the hybrid models, which sell for far more new than the regular Camrys. Not one Camry over ten years old sells for anywhere close to $10K with that kind of mileage.

Another brand does the IROC. I like it.

There is no entity that is going to buy a private person's 200K Camry for 10 thousand dollars... Let me put it this way... YOU own a 200K Camry regardless the year, and you waltz into ANY brand dealership, including a Toyoter dealership, and you want to trade in your 200K Camry for a new car, no dealership from here to hell will give you 10 thousand dollars for it. The dealership will give you 200 thousand REASONS as to why your 200K Camry is worth maybe $200.00 HOWEVER, anybody selling a 200K Camry, from a used car dealership to a private sale, to a stupid fool thinking that Toyoters are soooooo phoquing reliable, that stupid gullible Toyoter fool just might fork over 10 000 dollars for one. So yeah... Perception....

4994 miles, no issues. Dash MPG up to 24.3 (400 mile window), best was 24.6.

And my statement is that they STILL have that advantage. Not sure how you can interpret that any other way. And no offense but you have implied (many times) that Toyotas are basically junk and garbage so there is that.

There are all sorts of opinions online. I can go to any number of forums related to various cars owned by various members here and can find plenty of problems. The point is that the internet is for complainers and no one compliments anything to anywhere near the same degree as which they would direct a complaint. That is a fact. The fact also remains that Toyota and Lexis routinely clean everyone's clock in just about every reliability survey. That doesn't mean that everyone else sucks but to think Toyotas are somehow piles of $h! (for whatever reason) is beyond ill-informed.

No they really haven't despite your many claims to such things. Issues? Yes. Recalls? Also yes. Does that mean their reliability is garbage? Nope. not one damn bit. Being built less than ten miles from my house, for the record. I will say this too. For all of Toyotas problems with quick changes in the market (and their stupid commitment to hydrogen), if you think they won't catch up in a hurry, then you are fooling yourself. That have the capital to get on the wagon quick. Being first to produce something doesn't mean squat in the car world anymore.

IIRC, I flew BA 747s out of Denver once, Phoenix once...then the other three trips across the pond in the 00s were on BA 777s out of Phoenix... if I were to do it now (I really want to get back to Blighty, go out to Cornwall and Devon, up to Northumberland), I'll probably have to drive to Pittsburgh or Detroit to fly direct (I don't like connecting flights).

How about we ask Norwegians and how they cope with it. After all, they have voted EVs in with their money and not their mouths...

Who knew that even Ferrari would try to capture some of that 1990s-2000s Pontiac rounded, boy racer flair? Makes me love the 4rth gen Firebird/Trans Am even more than I did back then! And I guess that is why I absolutely LOVE the 812 Superfast. Yeah yeah....the V12 in it is just incredible, but its the styling that I adore even more than the V12 itself!

I think I posted this before: '39 Peterbilt, 1 of about a dozen built. Found abandoned, rusted & busted in the Nevada desert. Rescued & recycled :

Trans Ams and Hellcats

That's sounding vaguely like the smk argument; 'it sells the most so it's the best'.

The Cheapest Lucid Air (Pure), which you can reserve now, but it isn't in production until spring 2022, is $84,900 base price before tax credits. A Mercedes-AMG E53 which is the same size, has similar performance and a better interior is $75,000 base price. A Lexus LS which is a larger, more luxurious car than the Air Pure starts at $76,000. The Air has hype because the top end version has over 1,000 hp, but the middle trim has to go against E63's and M5's, the Taycan and Panamera, the lower trim against established German sedans and Lexus and this isn't a big segment. Infiniti, Cadillac, Lincoln, and Acura have all got out of mid-large luxury sedans, and Lexus killed the GS because there is no growth in this segment. The 2022 Model S starts at $94,990, and if you order today, you get it July of 2022 (estimated). That car is super fast, but it has a pretty mediocre interior. BMW, Audi and Mercedes can all undercut that price with the EQE, A6 E-Tron, and i5-series EV thing and have a better interior, better car. The market will flood with EV's, but these near $100k cars are such a tiny part of the market, no one is really even attempting a volume EV, outside of maybe Tesla with the 3/Y, but even those the global volume on that is a fraction of what a Rav4 or CR-V does globally.