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Ford would be done faster than that. Proof would be in Europe as Volkswagen Group is actually suffering economically as Chinese EVs have been dumped in that market. Analysts here and in Europe with biases against EVs continue to falsely blame a lack of interest for EVs and that VAG and Ford and everyone else that fails in selling EVs its because too much effort was made to sell EVs and there are no buyers for them. I say its because Ford, VAG and all others' EV technology is lackluster and hence nobody TRUSTS VAG and Ford EVs enough to buy them. GM is mid pack when it comes to EV technology and hence mid pack when it comes to EV sales. If GM is to survive a Chinese EV onslaught of dumping EVs in the North American market, GM NEEDS to ACCELERATE EV offerings not reduce them like Ford is doing. Chevrolet needs a family of Bolt EVs to do battle with the cheap Chinese stuff. An idea that GM has tossed around. I am not sure if Mary Barra is continuing on with that path though. Chevrolet does offer 2 EV family SUVs as of now. Might be enough. The Buick EVs WILL have to make it from China to here. With the tariffs, Buick might have to build them back in the usa. That would be a win win for the usa. Just as trump intended. Ford is doomed if they do not follow through with their recent EV platform strategy. In less than 20 years with tariffs on and less than a decade with no tariffs... EVs are the future whether americans want to admit it or not. I really do not care if americans believe that to be true or not. Doom and gloom is around the corner for americans on many levels. How much doom and gloom? It all depends on how much more bullshyte americans are willing to ignore and live with. It all depends also with how much bullshyte trump and his enablers are willing to impose on the usa.

Interesting conversation about old money/new money and their respective preference for their understated cars versus new money bling bling cars. Gary Cooper: A lister Hollywood superstar sex symbol actor of the 1920s. Would be considered new money for his day? I would believe so. He owned this Duesenberg And this Duesenberg. 1 of 2 built Clark Gable, another A lister Hollywood superstar hunk of the 1920s owned the 2nd Duesenberg roadster. With a splash more blingy paint job. Red with grey. Id like to think that Duesenbergs were the bling bling cars of their day. I guess cars were always a center of talk and attention. I would like to encounter a Duesenberg SSJ one day in person. I have both the sedan and coupe versions in my diecast collection.

Reminds me of reading about actor Christian Bale (Batman) who drives a 90s Tacoma around Hollywood.

This is really annoying. I noticed yesterday that traffic on the site was exponentially high. Turns out we were getting crawled by apparently all of China. I had to use Cloudfare to block the entire country because there was no pattern of repeats in the IP addresses. You can see where I installed the rule. That's 80k hits in about 18 hours. Before discovering this, we were getting 500k hits per day, super high for this site. There are still some getting through from Hong Kong, but not nearly the same volume. Def something going on as the other countries surrounding China are also hitting.

Today - depending on the time zone - marks 20 YEARS that I have been on C&G. It seems to have gone in chapters: First 3 years: Needed a new car, the LaCrosse was being released, and I was weighing the options, including test driving. Some of you will remember one ghastly initial design for the LaCrosse the Bob Lutz threw the book at the design staff for. Next 15 years: Owning the car, reporting on it, and driving other cars while on vacation, not to mention a lot of fighting with ocnblu ... which was hard to avoid! Last 2 years: NO car ... living on 2 continents ... (I would have never imagined this) ... renting cars as needed. There's a lot more to this decision than deciding between a LaCrosse, a Grand Prix, and a Monte Carlo.