loki

the exterior design reminds of infiniti, not in a good way.

32 minutes ago, Robert Hall said:

The GM small displacement V8s of the late 70s-early 80s all seemed to be very low on power..the Pontiac 265 had 120hp, the Olds 260 had 110hp, the Chevy 262 had 110hp, and the Chevy 267 had 120hp... I assume they were an attempt to get better gas mileage. 

with the early 80's v6 3.8L(231) also putting out ~110hp..it's also about low redlines. if your redline is at 4500rpm, that castrates all but the torquyest motors... also probably low 8:1 compressions

My family and I were in the cincinnati area recently(2017-2021), but now we are in the NW St louis area. Moved to be closer to family in SE MO, we are expecting again (for those that have seen me/facebook friends), and will be working in the chesterfield area.

sol terra = sun earth. ....wow

edit: knew this before reading the article

the manual gearing on it is so not "modern" ...6th gear is 1:1

at ~6'2.5" and was ~210lb when i drove a 16'? it was a snug fit, but yes, for an "amateur" driver, it's sooooo fun.

1 hour ago, dwightlooi said:

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my notification said he quoted me.... i can't see it.  awwww loki sad.

2 hours ago, Drew Dowdell said:

I had a hard time following what the point you were trying to make here was, but I'll address the points here that I do understand.

There is a difference between the Electric company that services your house and the electric company that generates the electricity and the electric company that operates the grid. The grids are often non-profit entities regulated by the state and fed.  The local power utilities are the ones who bill you... they are private companies and they are regulated by the states. The generation companies aren't really regulated by anyone except in terms of pollution control. 

I am all in favor of nuke power... I think a national program of Nuke, rooftop solar, and wind would make the national grid as green as can be.  Use modern breeder reactors and pebble bed reactors that are self regulating and nuke power would be super safe with nearly no waste.  The problem is the NIMBYs.... no one wants a reactor in their back yard because of Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima. It is the sad truth about the future of nuke power in the US.  It's like how the Olds V8 diesel killed the passenger diesel market in the US.

The purpose is to ensure the general welfare.  Grids cross state lines (out of necessity, see also: Texas and what happens when you don't), so under the commerce clause, the grids are covered under the federal powers.  The Feds were basically powerless during the Texas power outage for that exact reason... the best they could do is send generators and blankets.  If it were any other state, there would be federal action at the grid level. 

what parts didn't you understand? my alternate source of what describes socialism instead of a straight definition?

the commerce clause has been used to cover anything the law makers wanted to use it on, even gardens for self(family) consumption. find the Wickard v Filburn decision.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
"An Ohio farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat to feed animals on his own farm. The US government had established limits on wheat production, based on the acreage owned by a farmer, to stabilize wheat prices and supplies. Filburn grew more than was permitted and so was ordered to pay a penalty. In response, he said that because his wheat was not sold, it could not be regulated as commerce, let alone "interstate" commerce (described in the Constitution as "Commerce... among the several states"). The Supreme Court disagreed:"
so, of course the law/logic is covered, but this also supports the case that the commerce clause makes the federal gov all powerful. this is an authoritarian view and it requires authoritarian power to enforce socialism.. be it regulated or actually planned. if the farmer cannot grow food for his family/livestock w/o penalty, then the government has control over your life/property. he is not free to be productive outside of coercion.

if the federal gov is all powerful(commerce clause), that goes against the 10th amendment.

i guess i'm not arguing that you are wrong, but i'm arguing that the supposed limits to how our economy works, legally, is soooooo flawed, it can't be called capitalism.  I know most people call it mixed, but really only because we have the illusion of property rights...at least when it's not the wealthy/influential against the gov. so because we don't have enshrined property rights in 99.999999% of the cases, we actually have socialism.... at least a weak form of it, just stop calling it mixed. lol

30 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

I think the reason that people who follow your agenda are so angry all the time is that none of the fact ever support your narrative.  You want something to be true, you right these long screeds to support your agenda, but when someone starts looking at facts, you get angry because your whole argument falls apart.

A recap on "facts" you've gotten wrong so far:

1. The reason behind the high cost of California energy prices - Plenty of other states have green energy, Pennsylvania included. My power rates are actually below the national average and I use green power at my house. The green energy requirement is not the reason for high California energy costs, a fail experiment with unbridled capitalism is.

3. Healthcare - Your entire cause and effect is false.  You blame it on the government when in fact it is entirely caused by the system the private insurance companies set up for negotiating rates. 

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Socialism - a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or by the community as a whole.  

I suggested that if the grid is not government owned, that it needs to have heavy oversight by the government to make sure reliability standards are met. For something as critical to the health and wellbeing of the general citizenry, it is exactly the governments job to make sure the grid runs well.

Drew, quoting definitions like i used to... lol    SEMANTICS!!!!!!

perhaps dwight is using a different/older def, perhaps like here brittanica "Socialism, social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources." 

Control... if regs basically say they can only do certain things, that's indirect control, no?

further down in the entry
......"Meanwhile, the socialist parties of Europe were modifying their positions and enjoying frequent electoral success. The Scandinavian socialists set the example of “mixed economies” that combined largely private ownership with government direction of the economy and substantial welfare programs, and other socialist parties followed suit. Even the SPD, in its Bad Godesberg program of 1959, dropped its Marxist pretenses and committed itself to a “social market economy” involving “as much competition as possible—as much planning as necessary.” Although some welcomed this blurring of boundaries between socialism and welfare-state liberalism as a sign of “the end of ideology,” the more radical student left of the 1960s complained that there was little choice between capitalism, the “obsolete communism” of the Marxist-Leninists, and the bureaucratic socialism of western Europe."

furthur down
"If socialism has a future, it may well lie in some form of market socialism. Market socialism promises neither the utopia of the early socialists nor the brave new world that Marx and his followers envisioned as the fulfillment of history. But it does promise to promote cooperation and solidarity rather than competitive individualism, and it aims at reducing, if not eliminating, the class divisions that foster exploitation and alienation."

BIG POINT
Socialism is anti individualist, it is only collectivist, capitalism allows people to act in collectivist ways, but socialism does not allow individualism.
like pointed out here in more brittanica

"Collectivism has found varying degrees of expression in the 20th century in such movements as socialism, communism, and fascism. The least collectivist of these is social democracy, which seeks to reduce the inequities of unrestrained capitalism by government regulation, redistribution of income, and varying degrees of planning and public ownership. In communist systems collectivism is carried to its furthest extreme, with a minimum of private ownership and a maximum of planned economy. "

communism from google "a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs." political.... not economic?! but socialism above was a social and economic, but brittanica calls communism "Communism, political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property ....."  Differences that cause these arguments en masse, for, I know... I've used them for a long time.

and doesn't the electric company in california basically have an enforced monopoly on the market? yeah, sure, getting a startup company to push them out is near impossible because of the cost, .... if only nukes were subsidized /kwhr like solar and others, we wouldn't have anything else for base power because of the safety and tech advances since the 50's.... similar to how France's ~70% power is from nukes and waste is near nothing because of recycling, right?

...was this you, or someone else? ...quoting the preamble is the purpose of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Constitution ... where does it say that in the state's constitution? also, purpose, not powers.

I may have had more in my tank to write here, but i'll check responses later and try to be on point.    ...i miss the politics forum. lol

87 acre.... 87 octane,  obvious ploy. lol

but i have seen 1 or 2 here....if they weren't test models... or were they hybrids?

maybe it was last gen...

what "car" youtube channels do you like?
i recently found barricade garage for comedy

haven't watched much lately, but the car wizard is typically pretty good too.

is the "mazda 2" still to be sold?

32 minutes ago, trinacriabob said:

And, after they put a catalytic converter behind it, didn't it go down to about 105 hp?

From what I recall, inline 6s were very smooth, especially compared to a V6 or a 4.  The thing is that, for some reason, their exhaust note sounded very different than that of a V8, even if we're talking about a larger displacement inline 6 and a smaller displacement V8 of the same year(s). 

with a Cat, it would also need unleaded fuel, which lowered compression, and typically some RPM. iff 155 was at 5Krpm and the new hp was at 4250rpm, even at the lower compression could reduce it decently.

edit(just this line)also depends on carb/injection setup

isn't exhaust note very determined by back pressure, pulse speed, muffler, exhaust diameter and things like if x/h or straight pipes....?

we've heard of the 5.5L for awhile.

will those power numbers be able to be put to the ground? sure electronics will play a huge part.

how limited will these numbers be, 100 zoras a year? 1000 zr1s?

On 3/25/2019 at 7:17 AM, loki said:

'15 mazda 6. for the first 35K dealership changes at ~5K. After that castrol edge closer to 7500 and mazda filter. About to hit 78K in the next couple weeks.

still doing this, maybe closer to 7K, mileage is like ~89.5K

if it's only like $500, i could see a big take rate for it, but if it's above $1000, only the greeny-weeinies will take it.

this would be good for fleets that aren't used 90+%.. keeping the batteries topped off to lower maintenance needs.... yeah.

7 hours ago, smk4565 said:

The new 3.8 liter V6 is less powerful than the Nissan 3.7 liter V6 that made 328 hp 10 years ago.  

HP in trucks is not something to max.... who's gonna race the thing making it turn above 6500rpm?

edit, it's not an SS, or Cyclone type truck

good for fiat co.

17 hours ago, balthazar said:

Wow; that’s a long, safe ways off!

isn't only ~3 typical product cycles?

not bad, in the way that electric vehicles could be styled, but still very bland, but not in any sort of bad way. makes me think blade runner, kinda.
the small truck and bus are fairly distinctive.

the 2.5L and hybrid sound like it would reign supreme in the MPG war in this size.  wife took a test drive in one a few years ago. seemed fairly good for that short of a drive.

On 12/21/2019 at 6:20 AM, ocnblu said:

Toro makes one I think.

sounds like it should have referenced motorcycles.

the front feels like alot of Blazer.... will probably set itself apart with the lights on....?

22 hours ago, frogger said:

They have a new 2.5L turbo 4 in the works, it will be on the Sonata N-line, around 290hp and a little more than 300lb ft torque.  Maybe a version of that will replace the underwhelming 2.0L in a few years, might get better fuel economy as well.

even if they lightly turbo it like Dwight has made posts about, it could probably be good for mazda turbo like power. lots of torque and some more HP.
https://www.thecarconnection.com/car-compare-results/hyundai_santa-fe_2019-vs-mazda_cx-9_2019  

no 3rd seat row, it's shorter. but the mazda  is rated better MPG.

14 minutes ago, smk4565 said:

No the Grand National gets a 1.6 turbo!

1.9L and a 1/2 turbo!    oh, and only 2 wheels. lol