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@surreal1272 Welcome to the 50 plus club! Hope you have a great Birthday.

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Oh, well then, Happy Birthday @surreal1272!

The big 5-0oooh my freakin Jesus! Thanks lol!

I understand the Encore as there is the Encore GX just a smidge bigger. Always thought it was weird to compete with yourself.

The Encore is surprising to me. I always thought that sold really well. Ford shouldn't axe the EcoSport. They need an all-new one but I think they should have something in that small CUV category.

@oldshurst442 @ccap41 Seems more cars are being killed off in 2023. What cars are being discontinued in 2023? Honda, Toyota and Chevrolet are all axing models (msn.com)

@surreal1272happy birthday! Hope you are somewhere semi-warm for the holiday weekend.

Denver was the only place I’ve lived where I’ve used public transportation. The light rail is extensive and effective. But I usually would drive my Jeep to a light rail station then take the train downtown or elsewhere. I’ve never lived anywhere that rail or bus was more convenient than driving most of the time. Growing up in rural Ohio and the Florida Keys, driving was a necessity to get anywhere. I don’t see that changing for me anytime soon. And since I don’t have a commute anymore, I enjoy driving more since I usually am doing it for fun (sightseeing, out to dinner, to the beach, etc)

Mercedes is going a bit too much tech for the sake of tech. The prior SL (and all the other Mercedes convertibles for like 30 years) had a simple up/down lever in the center console for the convertible top. That seems much easier than sliding your hand and holding it on the touch screen. Agree with @ccap41 on the buttons, that door mounted seat control has been in use for like 40-50 years, works perfectly, they don't need some capacitive touch thing. Would be nice if they could get some weight out of the front of the SL, there is a more powerful SL coming supposedly with E-performance, so that will probably still undercut the 911 Turbo S in price and have way more power. But I am glad the SL is still here and is still a roadster, and they didn't make it an SUV.

About public transportation. Even in Montreal, when OUR public transportation is #2 in North America, right below NYC, even OUR public transportation does NOT favour Joe Public to abondon his car to use the bus, train and subway. There are vast parts of Montreal that has shytty service. In and around the core of the city is AMAZING. On the island itself, 85% of the public transportation is GREAT and going to get better when the new electric train that is above ground is going to go online. But, even though the West of the Island is going to get covered by this new electric train, most of the WEST of the Island is STILL crappy for public transport. Off island ANYWHERE around the ISland of Montreal is pitiful still. We do have subways in Longueil (South of the Island) and Laval (North of the Island) but Vaudreuil (West) and Repentigny (East) has nothing and the train service and bus service sucks) Lots of room to improve, yet Montreal is #2 in North America... Our DRIVING culture takes precedence in North America. And its a NARCISSTIC one at that which spills unto our public transportation perception of. We dont want to use public transport BECAUSE we simply dont want to because WE want to drive. Which was fine up until the 1960s. But since then, we dont even want to drive anymore. We want to eat while we drive. Shop while we drive. Text while we drive. Hell, we want to SLEEP while we drive. (Do I have to post pics of shytty Tesla drivers sleeping?) And yet, we could do ALL of those things nowadays IF we used the public transport system and HELP our governments, local and federal, to spend the money on producing a very very good system but we narcisstically dont want ANY of that because WE want our cake and eat it too. We want a car, but not just a car, an SUV or truck just so in we pick up a load of lumber or the hundreds of desks and tables we will by in our lifetimes, so no bus. Hell, we dont even want to buy an EV JUST because we MIGHT go on a family vacation somewhere, but we dont go anywhere because we would rather fly, but damn that EV electric range... Sorry for the rant, even if it doesnt make any sense, my mind is racing in several directions. @David has me riled up... Our driving habits, our driving wants is based on pure narcissism. WE dont drive well because WE dont give a shyte about OUR surroundings. Its all about the individual. And since public transport is PUBLIC, its a no-go for such a narcissitic culture. The driving rant and the public transport rant is all the same thing.... These next pics just summorize ALL of my rants on why we SUCK at driving and its NOT the language English thing, and why we dont want to use public transportation... Its a phoquing traffic sign... Its in English, but its more for an Amri-Canadian rather than a European or an African. I dont think an immigrant not knowing how to read this sign actually texts and drives. If he does, he learned it from OUR shytty car culture!!! ABC news....that lady is an AMERI-CANADIAN.... I dont think its a foreigner immigrant.. Even if it is, that lady learned to be lazy and hate driving, yet wanna drive, because of OUR shytty driving culture... TAKE the PHOQUING BUS, BITCH!!! But NO!!! Why should shy???!!! She owns a phoquing car!!! So she could wait in line for HOURS waiting to stuff her phoquing face with a burger and a coffee while not having to leave her phoquing car. A public bus will NOT stop at the Starbucks for her...

Not launching until spring.

The SL has held true to being a roadster, much like the Corvette has always been a 2 seat sports car even if the engine moved from front to back, I don’t think that matters too much, it is still the same mission of performance 2 seater. I criticized the idea of a Corvette SUV, I am not criticizing the Corvette or GM since they didn’t make that move yet. The one thing I would change about GM’s performance strategy is I would do a car above the Corvette to keep the Corvette in a$60-120k range. Porsche did the 959, Carrera GT, 918 when they had to go above the 911. Mercedes did the SLR, SLS, AMG One, etc when they had to go higher than the SL. Mercedes never killed what the SL was in the past just because they needed a 911 fighter or a Ferrari fighter.