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I guess technically, they announced the end of production rather than cancelation. But with sales numbers like what @David quoted, I can see a desire not to give up that slice of the market. The Bolt was ended to make room for additional Silverado EV production, so I would expect we'll hear about it moving to a new plant in the future.

July 25 - the day that the SS "Andrea Doria" was impaled and sunk by the SS "Stockholm" at 11 p.m. off the coast of Nantucket the evening before she was due in New York harbor the following morning. They were having an exhibit or something and I saw this poster at the Staten Island Ferry terminal when in New York last October. And, while on the Staten Island Ferry, looking toward Brooklyn showed the QM 2 (in the distance) moored at the cruise terminal. There's a new high rise in Brooklyn (surprise), which now has become fairly expensive because of the spillover from Manhattan and other people moving to NYC choosing it because it's a "little less" expensive. That's a light fog, as you look at another Staten Island Ferry going the other way inside the harbor. It was very heavy fog that also affected and contributed to the "Andrea Doria" disaster.

I like this Turbine Truck.

I have not read books on diving on the "Doria;" however, I have watched some documentaries of exploration with mini-subs or equipment done on the "Doria." It was long thought that her safes contained all this money and all these valuables and, when they opened them, it turned out to be false. I've read a book and some accounts on what happened between 11 pm on July 25, 1956 and 10 am on July 26, 1956 when she rolled over and gave her last gasp. Everyone blamed the Swedes because their ship rammed the "Doria." Realistically, both sides were at fault. The Swedes had an unseasoned officer driving the ship through heavy fog in a heavily trafficked maritime lane, the radar was set at a scale that was 3x bigger, or smaller, than the true distance, and there was possibly some alcohol involved. On the Italian side, there was a breach of maritime protocols in which way you are supposed to turn (left or right) when you confront an event like this and they panicked. (To think that a sharp turn in the other direction would have avoided the collision is something that must have haunted many people for years.) As far as diving goes, she's on the shelf of the Atlantic before the edge of a big "canyon," so she sits in about 240 feet of water. Sharks are also a major problem in this area, as if we don't know that from the news. Some say that the "Doria" is considered the "Mt. Everest of dives." She was not a big ship. It was more about what she meant to a nation which had typically had good rapport with the U.S. healing from the ravages of WW2 and embarking on a rebuilding campaign that went for some 20 years, which Italians call the "boom." And how that nation would transport its people moving to the U.S., and back, including American tourists crossing the Atlantic that way instead of via the not as prevalent long haul jet. That said, while not big, they lavished a good bit of attention on the cuisine, the creature comforts, and how she was decked out. For Italians, when it comes to their transatlantics, it's the "Andrea Doria" and the "Michelangelo" - their very last and quite a bit bigger flagship (1965-1977, in my background photo; to 1991 under another country's flag) - that they more vividly remember. * I'm off my soapbox now *

An unexpected twist! It sounds like it will be a major mechanical refresh but maybe not so much a visual one. I've read elsewhere that this could underpin a future Honda as well.

Corvette race car pulled from its grave https://www.corvsport.com/check-out-this-1963-corvette-race-car/?fbclid=IwAR0jB7BtyfmsdSxp9cMYklSCGa_68XQHXNlUappa4Mf_1SEw_8ZMwbRK2pQ

I have read some fantastic books on diving on the Doria. She is quite decomposed at this point. This car is a work of art.

Sad that those comments imply that Toyota is resting on their laurels and that QC no longer matters like it once did. Hopefully Ford and GM are learning from Toyota's errors.

Have to say that the comments on this story speak volumes. https://www.motorbiscuit.com/lincoln-toyota-heading-down-same-dark-path-2023/

Random thoughts and random visuals along these lines are going through my stream of consciousness these days ...

Customer service at call centers has taken a nosedive that doesn't seem correctable anytime soon. Sadly, this is even in financial services - including brokerage! If domestically, it's because of the not-so-great caliber of people available and which they hire. If internationally, you might get someone who doesn't speak English well, is too obsequious and ingratiating in an annoying manner, and is not in synch with you in answering and asking questions as far as good timing goes. (I think we can do the mix and match real well with who I refer to in this last paragraph.) It can be exhausting.

Military discipline action to be taken against this solder and reporting that he was laughing. Either truly insane or was about to face a long life at a federal prison. Idiots only do what this person supposedly did.