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Can you imagine your automotive ego is wrapped around a miserable toyoter matrix??

If another variant makes major inroads, there will be another booster.

The counts are going to be inaccurate because of the different sources and they way they count. This isn't like ballots, with a controlled population/sample size. But I do believe that the unvaccinated are more likely to be hospitalized ... and to be in ICU. With all the changing viral forms, breakthrough infections are going to be more of a problem. Just from glancing at my homepage, it looks like obnoxious Jimmy Fallon and Whoopi have contracted it, and they're vaccinated. The thing that bugs me is medical people who do not want to get the vaccine. I know one person like that ... a nurse who says, "I don't trust it." A lot of medical people have training and education, but, sometimes, it's "STEM lite" and doesn't go as far as where some people's education goes. They may have not taken classes in bacteriology and virology nor in statistics, yet they are still so damn sure of themselves. Then there are the people who don't have good education (or any), yet they have an even more forceful "telling" conversational style when it comes to health matters, politics, and financial matters, as opposed to stating that these are opinions or how they feel about things. Most people have done a lot of housecleaning with their friends and relatives during the last 2 to 5 years. It's something that sometimes needs to be done.

Gassed up the SS at Costco and in comes the twins, Toyota Matrix and Pontiac Vibe. I stated to the two owners that it has been a long time since I saw the twins on the road around here. Glad to see some still alive. Toyota Owner looked confused and asked why I said that, I explained, and he immediately denied it was co-built with GM. The Pontiac owner agreed with me and said it was a great little low maintenance auto he has owned since his parents had bought it new and gave it to him when he graduated college. I told the Toyota Owner you can look it up online as it is built alongside the Vibe in a factory that was 50/50 GM/Toyota. Again, he denied it was true as all Toyota autos are built only by Toyota as they are the best quality autos in the world. I laughed and said is that why they have had millions of recalls lately because they are the best in the world? The Pontiac owner laughed also and encouraged the guy to look online while he was gassing up. He did, his facial expression changed, and he once done hung up the gas hose, forgot to get this receipt that printed and just took off. Guess that bubble popped and deflated his day!

Saw a Ford Maverick (the new one) couple days ago, that light gray color, rolling. It's a little bigger apprearing that I thought it would be, but it's probably the squareness of the design doing that.

The wife and I both got are 3rd shot 3 hours ago. Like @trinacriabob The 1st two were Pfizer but our 3rd was Moderna. We didnt have a choice as for some reason in Quebec, all folk above 30 years old receives Moderna for their 3rd. Hey, Covid! Here's mud in your eye! Hopin' we dont have to go to 4.

Thanks for posting this, it does make me realize that my auto tabs on like my Escalade have gone down every year, but this year it went up by $35 dollars as we have a lite rail tax being added to help pay for the system that is under construction and will open in 2024, working from Northgate here to the airport through Seattle, but south to Federal Way and North to Lynnwood open in 2024 so we will have that as a 40 year added tax to the auto tab cost.

I was disappointed they didn't give me the wifi network name and password.

Toyoter ownership is like a cult. LOL

Im kinda bummed out and disappointed. Just a sore shoulder for my wife and I but nothing much else to report. But why the sad? I was promised by some people out there that getting THE Covid vaccine would make me transmit 5G WiFi. All for free. Well, the fee being that I got THE Covid vaccine. Im on my 3rd vaccine now, but no 5G WiFi. What gives???!!! I SPECIFICALLY got THE Covid vaccine JUST so I could transmit 5G internet myself. Internet services are way expensive in Canada...

Ive had a few of these kinds of conversations with Toyoter folk myself in the past. And the denial and refusal to accept to the eventual bewilderment and shock as described by @David was eye-dentical!

^ Different sources report significantly different numbers, which is to be expected. What I wonder is; are people admitted to hospitals for other medical/surgical reasons, are automatically tested for COVID and found to be positive... are those people counted towards 'COVID hospitalizations' when they weren't admitted for such?

This kind of thing is what makes this so sad as over 90% of those being hospitalized are the unvaccinated. U.S. reports record 1.3M Covid cases in a day as hospitalizations soar (nbcnews.com) At least 1,343,167 new Covid infections were identified on Monday, according to the tally, sweeping past the previous record of 1,044,970 cases that had been set on Jan. 3. So much of this could be avoided if those people would honestly look, use their brain and consider the science. Sadly, 30% of the nation medical staff feel this is overblown and are not vaccinated and with the Supreme Court reviewing the vaccination mandate, firings have been put on hold for Federal, State, County, city government jobs. Private sector is another thing as some companies have moved forward with vaccine mandates to keep your job due to at will employment. This also is why I am hearing from my sister and others who are nurses at hospitals: southern states have seen the largest shift in hospitalizations over the past two weeks, with the seven-day averages for hospitalizations in Louisiana up 341 percent from 340 to 1,501 over the past two weeks, while Florida has seen its average soar by 277 percent from 2,426 to 9,169, Why help those that want to fight the benefits of vaccinated, Private Hospitals are being asked by their own employees to prioritize vaccinated people over unvaccinated as the ones to help. A crazy world we live in now.

True, but even the Nissan Leaf info that has been shared from last year's Texas Winter storm show they did pretty good. It makes sense that an EV would only need to run the electric seats and or heat pump / heater to stay warm rather than run everything the way an ICE would.

I'm not sure if it cracks me up, per se, but assume you've got some people vehemently objecting to vaccination, their job is on the line because of the employer or state they live in, and they sheepishly "cave in" to getting vaccinated. And, then, nothing adverse happens to them as a result of it. Which then brings up the question: "WTF was all that grandstanding about?"

Interesting the FEAR EVs give to some as this editorial is pathetic, but understandable on how cherry-picking details fails the public in pushing writing like this out. Opinion | Imagine Virginia’s traffic jam but with only electric vehicles - The Washington Post You then have ones like this that use science to show that EVs actually do much better than ICE in a traffic jam like this. Yes Batteries loose more than gas, but use less power than ICE when idling and for Tesla they have Camping mode, so a blanket and heated seats keeps you warmer than running an ICE auto at a much cheaper rate. How Long Can A Tesla Keep You Warm In A Frozen Traffic Jam? "Dirty Tesla" Finds Out - CleanTechnica Some Quotes from real people stuck in the traffic jam. Tesla owners caught in the traffic jam and in one of the comments to his video, a user noted that a pregnant woman from the Facebook Tesla Divas group shared that she was stuck in her Tesla for 16 hours during the traffic jam. Her battery was at 74% and only dropped to 61% by the time she got home. She simply turned-on Camp Mode and slept. To answer the Washington Post’s question, the Teslas did pretty well during 18 hours of freezing temperatures. He noted that he used solar at home to charge his cars but included the cost of electricity for those who may not have solar at home. 12 Hour Check-in The Model Y battery level went from 91% down to 58%. It used 26.5 kWh at 0.16 per kWh, which would cost $4.22. The Model X battery dropped from 90% to 47% and used 43 kWh at 0.16 per kWh, which would cost $6.88. 18 Hour Check-in During this portion, he had lowered the inside temperatures of the cars to 60 degrees. The Model Y battery went from 58% down to 48%, with 8 kWh used at 0.16 per kWh costing $1.28. I agree with the Conclusion here: Although he didn’t include the results for the Model X at 18 hours, it should be noted that it cost under $10 to stay warm in freezing conditions. However, as he emphasized, with planning for emergencies such as the Virginia icy traffic jam disaster, one could survive up to 36 hours in their car. He also noted that both ICEVs and EVs have their advantages and disadvantages during emergencies, but I want to emphasize that the average American who owns a gas car and thinks EVs are ill equipped to handle emergencies probably spent more than $10 to keep warm during this event — much more. Typical misinformation, or FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt), often permeates the collective during disasters such as the one in Virginia. And the Washington Post — which is a news organization with access to research, information, and data — chose not to use that and spread the idea that it would have been worse off with EVs than without.

@oldshurst442 Since I work with CDC, John Hopkins, Harvard Medical and Oxford all on the Covid front of research, they are expecting new versions that will require boosters this year. As such, the CDC has changed to every 6 months for a booster shot against Covid. Pfizer will have an Omnicron Booster out in May time frame. Moderna is expecting to follow a month later or so and right now we are hitting new highs in hospitalizations of 146,000 per day. U.S. COVID hospitalizations hit record high : Shots - Health News : NPR Omicron pushes U.S. COVID hospitalizations toward record high | Reuters COVID-19 Hospitalizations (cdc.gov) Sadly, we have new variants already taking hold. New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France (yahoo.com) New Potential Covid Virus Variants Of Concern (forbes.com) What do we know so far about the new Mu COVID-19 variant? | World Economic Forum (weforum.org) SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern as of 5 January 2022 (europa.eu) As such, I would say you need to expect another jab or two and that 2023 is the true year we will see things start to ease up as the world starts to reach towards what some call Herd Immunity. Getting Vaccines was slow during the Influenza pandemic of 1918, we are at least getting better about getting updated vaccines out and communicating it.

Not really, and by 2030 all S-classes, Maybachs, Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, etc will be electric. The rich will buy them and probably like them more because they will be quieter and more powerful than those vehicles with gas engines. And the bulk of BMW and Mercedes sales are in the $50-80k range so if they have EV's priced there that is nothing new for their consumer base. I want to know how many people are buying a $60k Kia EV6, Kia couldn't sell a full size luxury sedan for $60k, now they want to sell a small crossover for that much.

Jeep Liberty here is $71, my 2500HD was $98 last year.

Dont know about Finland and Sweden were most classic American cars end up going to, but I could tell you about Greece. The roads on the islands, especially in the 1960s and 1970s, were skinny donkey trails snaking up and down mountains. There were some that were paved then, but most were not. Eventually all were paved and enlargened. But please dont think that today these former donkey trails are interstate highways with 4 lanes going and 4 lanes coming... Tourists busses and Mercedes Sprint truck hotel passenger vehicles go up and down these roads with ease nowadays and that is with sharing the roads with rented cars from tourists and the local yokels. But there is quite the difference with muscle cars and land yachts with these modern busses and Sprinter vans. The turning radius of these Sprinter vans and Volvo and Mercedes busses are just incredible. Its a great thing to see how tight these things turn. And its needed... American busses need a lesson from their European counterparts in that regard. But maybe our busses dont need to turn that tight. Lets not also forget that American cars of that era didnt really handle any kinds of twisties. They wallowed and dipped and dived. But then again, these cars were designed to go fast in a straight line and ride in comfort on our straight, long highways. I dont know how clear the idea it because looking at these pictures below to see how tight those roads are That is a vigil. A person died there going off the road. There are plenty of these vigils. Id say hundreds of them if not thousands in totality in all of Greece... Yes, drunken young adults going too fast for the most part in motorcycles, but adding classic American muscle cars to that mix and things get worse, not better. And lets talk about Athens... A typical Athenian street in an old area. Modern, new areas of the city are more or less engineered to accommodate cars, but that above photo depicts how impossible it is to have a whole population driving big American cars of the 1960s and 1970s...

^ I thought 'the roads were too narrow' outside the U.S. for U.S. vehicles. ? Was looking at a 'roll call' of B-59 owners - seemed 40-some % are overseas (mostly Sweden, Finland, Australia).

Im glad that American Muscle is being enjoyed outside North America!

Upcycle before 'n after :

i bet you would have liked an Ipad slapped over the top of that nice linear dash...... odd coincidence, I'm not sure if this is the same "K-Pop" but last night for the first time i opened up a bottle of Korean K-Pop sauce and made some grilled chicken with it. was really good.

This man from Brazil obviously does not know his political geography too well. I don't know if I'd call him fat, but he's definitely dumb and happy. I had neither the money nor the time to buy a complicated ship model when I was an early teen. However, I did build some less expensive models of 747s I had bought.

I think the greenhouse is fine, but the rear axle needs to move rearward about 10-12" to re-balance it out.