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I know. I definitely know. Trilingual Montrealers and Quebecois are common. It also ensures a global mindset instead of a hick one. I'm not a fan of hicks and narrow-minded thinking. I didn't speak English until I went to school because we spoke Italian at home. My parents spoke accented English their whole lives. They're no longer alive. They could handle what they needed to handle, for the most part. I only spoke Italian with them. However, once I became a teenager, I would usually intervene in their dealings with realtors, merchants, and auto repair places in English to make sure they were not taken advantage of. I did it reflexively. - - - - What I really wanted to say ... I saw an article which didn't really surprise me, but made me happy. Lufthansa is bringing some of its Airbus 380 fleet back on-line. For whatever reason, it will be based in Munich (MUC) and not Frankfurt (FRA), which is their main and larger hub. They will obviously also operate their Boeing 747-8s. Soon, 2 of 3 of the big European carriers will be operating the Airbus 380. What Air France will do remains to be seen. Details: Lufthansa Airbus A380 Returning In 2023 - One Mile at a Time Also, along with Swiss, Lufthansa is operating the smaller Airbus 340 quad, which I really like. It looks like Lufthansa will keep the newer Airbus 340-600s going, but be retiring the Airbus 340-300s and, according to some other article, replace those with Boeing 787 Dreamliners they will order. That way, they'll get the seating capacity of the Airbus 340-300, but in a newer and much more economical machine. Having the airplane manufacturer, airline, and travel industry point toward returning to new and previous highs is a very upbeat thing in my book.

The larger problem with the first two model years of those cars was a transmission overheating problem. The lines were too small for sufficient cooling. Supposedly they added a transmission cooler in the latter year models but by then it had a foot out the door here.

In the US market? Im not really following this thread. Did I miss anything. When has BYD decided to sell in the US market. NHTSA has greenlit BYD EVs for the US market? Im confused. Cybertruck was never a real threat. Cybertruck was never a real attempt for a pick up truck. Cybertruck is just eye candy. A poster vehicle for teenagers and geeky Tesla sheeple to put up in the bedrooms and their garages. GMC HUMMER EV does a better job at being a poster vehicle AND it being an actual legit EV product. And despite a recent but small recall, HUMMERS are being ordered like no tomorrow. As of July 2022, General Motors had 80 000 orders. REAL orders. https://gmauthority.com/blog/2022/07/gm-has-80000-gmc-hummer-ev-reservations-so-far/ As of Oct 2022. Hummer orders are SOLD OUT for at least 2 years. GM has capped that number, to which I diont know what number that is. The article below says that there is a 90 000 unit reservation. I guess 90 000 is the break even point. GM has capped it somewhere and it has sold out for at least 2 years. Im guessing that the Silvardo EV and the new GMC Sierrar Denali EV will pick up (pun intended) where the HUMMER EV leaves off, and then some, until GM gets the true EV pick-up truck replacements on line. (With a configurable beds) https://gmauthority.com/blog/2022/10/gmc-hummer-ev-pickup-suv-sold-out-for-at-least-two-years/ The Cybertruck hasnt even started production yet. Mid 2023... And with Musk concetrating on Twitter, and Musk being a micro-managing moron, despite the already delays to get the Cybertruck on line, since late 2021, there doesnt seem to be any urgency. Buying Twitter. Not buying Twiiter. Accusing Twitter. Laying low for two months to buying Twitter again and firing almost everybody and having some poor schmuck take photos of him working hard on....Twitter seems to be more important. So really, you mentioning Cybertruck as some sort of GM competition sometime in 2024 was not really a discussion point. Cybertruck was dated when it was introduced. Only a handful of people were awestricken with it. That was in Nov of 2019. That was 3 years ago to the day almost. It comes out now, its old news. It will come out 2 years from now. That would be 5 years from when it was first revealed. It will be ancient by then...

First, common sense, EVERYONE, EVERYONE has to ramp up battery production. BYD has had huge help from the Communist party. I DO NOT see BYD coming to the U.S. any time soon. The current auto's DO NOT meet our crash test or other safety requirements. Even in China where VW is a leading ICE and among Non-Chinese auto companies lead that market, but even for them they are having to ramp up. End result is while GM has secured plenty of capacity for raw materials, is currently building 4 battery cell plants, upgrading multiple assembly plants to support EVs, it takes time, just like it took Tesla a decade to get where they are now. GM will have done what Tesla did in 10 years in about 2 years' time as all the plants come online. Even if Tesla gets their Cyber Truck POS starting to be produced, it will still take them a year to ramp up to a steady build of trucks which tesla has stated will be about 100,000 trucks at full capacity. They are working to get test mules out and even that is not running yet. Full production is expected by the end of 2023 with them recording their first quarter full production sales at the end of March 2024. Tesla to start Cybertruck production two years late - report - Just Auto (just-auto.com) Tesla has not stated what they consider full production but has stated it will likely follow the other models that were brought online in a plant and ramped up, so that would be 100,000 trucks at the end of 2023 and who know s how much more. GM and FORD are officially on record with turning out a new truck every minute or less. Ford is on official record that this year they have been turning out a new truck every 52 seconds. Ford Dearborn Truck Plant Gives Birth To An F-150 Every 52 Seconds (fordauthority.com) Tesla will have a harder time ramping up than the Legacy OEMs will. Toyota and pretty much any company that is behind in the EV race is going to find it harder and harder regardless of how much money they have to catch up as they slip further and further behind. Toyota has not prepped well for the EV future and so will find it harder and harder with every year they are delayed in moving to EVs.

If I was a young, single, upwardly-mobile professional in the mid '60s and early '70s, Id gladly own these

CA and NC: good luck with that. I do hope they succeed.

Had the Jeep in at the dealer for oil change, tire rotation, front and rear axle fluid replacement, transfer case oil change a couple weeks ago. Today, got a set of Westin Oval 4" side steps installed. Running great at 69k miles.

If I had any artistic skills, I would love to photoshop into a modern version this 1986 Monte Carlo Aero on the Ultium Platform. Stretch the trunk back a little, but otherwise a smoother modern version of this would be cool.

Came oh so close to buying one (a '94 model I believe) around 2001 but the transmission was slipping to the point of needing replacing and that was not a cheap fix at all. Was a neat little ride back then though and yes, the Delorean style windows were a selling point for me lol.

You know the crazy thing? Although I do speak French and English, and many Francophones and Anglos speak both languages as well, I do speak a third. Greek. THE crazy thing is that many many fellow ethnic Quebecois also speak a 3rd language (their native tongue whatever that may be. Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Hungarian, Polish...you get the idea) which in my neck of the woods, does NOT make me that special. I knew from an early age that Montreal, despite the English/French political and cultural struggle, I knew that Montreal was/is a true blue cosmopolitan city. When someone picks up a language at a young age, its easier. A lot easier. In my case, my first language that I spoke was Greek. My mom didnt speak a word of French and only understood a little English. She was a stay at home mom immigrated to Canada in 1967 at the age of 31. Therefore, my first words were Greek. Not just my first words, I spoke Greek and nothing else. I did have a hard time speaking English by the time I went to kindergarden. But by listening to English(American) TV (Sesame Street and some Canadian kids shows like Mr. Dressup...), English was never that far away from me communicating with the (English)locals. (I did go to English school...long story as to why that was. Laws protecting Anglos and my dad being Greek but born in Montreal going to English school when he was young...and that is even a longer story as to why he went to English school in Quebec...) French was learnt by reading THE French newspaper. Le Journal de Montreal. My dad bought the Montreal Gazette on Saturdays (for reasons that every Anglo Montrealer does did ) and he bought the Journal de Montreal on Sundays (for reasons that EVERY Montrealer does did) and so he taught me French by reading the sports spection in French. Hockey games were listened to in both languages and baseball in English. And so that is how I Iearned to speak, read and write all three languages. I did go to Greek school on Saturdays. I did have French language skills to speak to the other half of the locals while learning how to play hockey on the streets. By the time I got to highschool, all three languages were read, written and spoken with no problems. French Greek English Canadian

I am just saying if GM wants to capitalize, they need to scale up faster than VW, Toyota or Ford do or before the Chinese cars get here. And the same can be said for anyone else, whoever moves too late or slow will be left out.