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Was unable to take a picture but saw at the local home here that offers detailing an immaculate 1969 Cadillac Eldorado. Was painted brown, had all the original hub caps. Just Sexy as Hell. Very much looked like this one I found for sale online.

That is great, I know my house I am in I bought in 1999 and was $145K then, now the county has it valued at $770K Crazy price. Yes, the best thing is being able to paint, make changes, etc. to the new place and then move in, then prep with a solid cleaning and any updates you feel the old house needs to maximize selling price. Making it move in ready always gets top dollar. Good luck my friend.

Looking forward to Easter brunch on Sunday...we are going to a restaurant in downtown Cleveland that has a great brunch..

Happy Easter to those who observe it, celebrate it, or spend the day in a way other than you usually do. I was "good" yesterday. It's the only Friday I observe during the year. I had oatmeal for breakfast and fish for both lunch and dinner.

As for car spotting, I saw one of these today - a 45 year old 1978 Olds Delta 88 Royale coupe. That's a lot of sheet metal for a coupe. It didn't look good and it didn't look bad. The Rocket V8 exhaust note was still sort of there as it turned left in front of me. It was like this model ... It did have a landau top, but it did not have the rally wheels like the above (too bad) I always get a kick out of the small windows they used to feature in large coupes. Somehow, they made the proportions work ... most of the time.

It's going to be an adventure. Glad I didn't have to do a contingent sale. I can take my time moving and do some improvements to my current house before I put it up for sale...it should go for $275k or so (over $100k more than I paid for it 6 years ago).

The biggest Marketing and Fake claim move idiot Musk has ever made.

My favorite lie of the year. ”Tesla has spent $0 in advertising” A $44 billion purchase of Twitter would beg to differ. Elon is Tesla and is using Twitter to push Tesla and everything else backed by him when he’s not sounding like a complete jackass on there.

And then some. Which is still cheaper than his $57K claim and again, how many price bumps from Tesla over the past five years and he is going to harp on others for doing less? That’s why a discussion can’t be had with him. Just some serious bar moving gymnastics and I’m over this childish fanboy nonsense. The sad thing is that while he touts this “huge” price drop, he failed to realize that this new price merely aligns with its original price before all the bumps over the years (Remember, the Y was supposed to start at closer to $40K than $50K and we know what happened there). He also fails to see that the price drops are to help lagging sales. Let me say it again. It’s to help LAGGING SALES. Big sellers don’t need a price drop but shhhh, apparently Tesla is the exception to basic economics.

Happy Easter Everyone. Wish you all the best weekend.

Back to RAM REV, @Drew Dowdell While the press release did not show the FRUNK, the video shows it opens and closes showing some sort of door on the back wall. The interior pictures also do not show anything clearly nor do they show the truck with the midgate down. QUESTION: Is RAM going to deliver on the FRUNK Door so you can have long items from the bed to the Frunk down the center? Have you heard anything on this? Also, was there any size give for what looks like a weird little screen in front of the front passenger seat?

Tesla has NEVER delivered on their bottom priced autos. I will believe it when we see the Tesla stores have these entry level autos on their lots. Anyone can give a low price and @surreal1272 proved there was an MSRP $50K on the lot at a dealership. Here is the local inventory for here and I have one priced MSRP @47K, multiples at $50K and a few more that go up from there. I have yet to see any type of low prices of the increasing inventory at Tesla lots here. Realizing that the attached image might be hard for some to see, I have done multiple cuts from the same image to show you a better look.

One house I toured last weekend had been built in the 50s and last remodeled in the 70s...had some great details (slate entryways, lots of original stone and wood) and had belonged to an older couple that were either deceased or in care homes...sadly, their furniture and kicknacks were still in the house, family photos on the walls, etc..and in the garage---a clean Cadillac Brougham from around 1990-92 (dark brown w/ dark brown leather interior) and a clean late 90s Eldorado in dark red w/ red interior.

I’m done with @smk4565 . I just literally gave you a real world example and you move that damn bar yet again (like I knew you would). Stop it. Seriously. You were proven wrong and you still want to act like you weren’t shown the facts? Go to a Tesla forum with that biased nonsense.

Let me show you where your lack of context is getting you bit in the A. The above numbers are true for the Mach-E (for the 2021 and 2023 figures only, not the $57,995 figure). Bravo to that. However (after a whole 20 second search near my location)... Clicked "Search inventory" and... The window sticker.... Last I checked, that is: A.) Considerably LESS than the $57K figure you just used. B.)Still LESS than a base model Y (that has less standard features than the Mach-E thus killing the tax credit advantage of $3750 enjoyed by the Y), even AFTER the recent price drop on it. And this AFTER an even bigger 20% cut in January. Basically, it took those price drops to put the Y in the same breath as the Mach-E, when talking about competitive pricing. Just think about that before replying because I am not going to keep spelling out the obvious here. Or... ...should I just go ahead and move that bar for you and save your back from the repeated lifting?

Went and saw Bruce Springsteen for the 10th time in 25 years this past week..most of the band is over 70 now, but still put on a high energy show clocking in at almost 3 hours. Great music, always great live... I was distracted by all my personal drama this week, but had bought the tickets probably 8 months ago, so couldn't skip the show. Was a great evening...

Of the late 70s Firebirds, my favorite front is the '77-78, but my favorite rear is the '79-81 with the full width taillight trim...

The Model Y comparable trim to comparable trim is cheaper than the Mach-E and has a $7500 tax credit vs $3750 that the Mach-E gets starting April 18th. And the Model Y is faster with more range. Probably why the Model Y outsold the Mach-E nearly 20 to 1 last quarter. Let's look at the Ford sales chart: Down 19.7% in Q1. And this was their Tesla killer? And then there is the Kia EV6 down 36% for the year, 69% drop last month. And Hyundai Ioniq 5 down 8% this year, down 22% last month as they trend downward like Kia. These bozos are what Tesla is supposed to be worried about?

The cheapest Mach-E you can order is the California Route 1 at $57k. I did search Shults Ford who has 2 in stock, 1 Select at $50,535 and 2022 Premium at $58,815. And that is assuming they sell at msrp which I think they do but some dealers still mark up. They are in similar price points before tax credit but the big difference is Tesla makes money and Ford is losing money on every EV they sell. Tesla can afford to cut prices because they have shredded manufacturing cost so much. Ford can’t afford to do that, probably why the F150 Lightning price is up 50% since launch and still not profitable. And they could get away with that since there aren’t other EV pick ups except the high dollar Rivian. when the Ram, Chevy, Cybertruck hit hit market there is going to be competition on price.

In your own example the cheapest Mach-E in 2021 was $42k, right now it is $50k with half the Tax credit amount. Thus the price went up. The cheapest Model Y in 2022 was $65,990 with no tax credit, now the cheapest Model Y is $49,990 with a $7500 credit (if the buyer qualifies of course) dropping it to $42,490. It is $23k less at a time when every other car has rising prices. Once you factor in gasoline and maintenance it is probably cheaper to buy a Model Y than most midsize ICE SUVs.

How are they ramping up if they sold less cars? Ford, Hyundai and Kia all said they would produce more EVs in 2023 than in 2022, yet we see sales down 8% on Ioniq 5, down 19% on Mach-E, down 36% on EV6 in the US, but the EV6 is down in Europe too. Tesla 3/Y sales globally were up 44% in Q1 of 2023 and set a record for their best quarter ever. These legacy OEMs have been saying for years they are ramping up, but they aren’t actually doing it. Tesla is going to sell over 1 million Model Y this year, so Ford should be setting a goal of 1 million Mach-E if they want to be on par with Tesla. And same with Kia or Hyundai or Chevy Equinox EV, etc.