G. David Felt

VW LA Auto Show Volkswagen showcases growing family of electric vehicles at Los Angeles Auto Show, Nov. 17-26 - Volkswagen US Media Site (vw.com) Lexus Press Release Five Things to Know About the All-New 2024 Lexus GX - Lexus USA Newsroom Subaru LA Auto Show SUBARU DEBUTS ALL-NEW 2025 FORESTER SUV WITH NEW STYLING, SAFETY AND IN-VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY - Subaru U.S. Media Center

Honda LA Auto Show Surprises Honda Prelude Concept Makes Surprise North American Debut (hondanews.com) Toyota LA Auto Show First-Ever Toyota Crown Signia and Next-Generation Toyota Camry Arrive in Los Angeles for Auto Show Debut - Toyota USA Newsroom 2025 Toyota Camry XSE Kia LA Auto Show ACCELERATING THE ART OF ELECTRIC MOBILITY: KIA INTRODUCES ALL-ELECTRIC EV3, EV4 CONCEPT MODELS AT THE 2023 LOS ANGELES AUTO SHOW (kiamedia.com) EV3 EV4 Genesis LA Auto Show GENESIS UNVEILS FIRST-EVER GV80 COUPE AND NEW GV80 SUV FOR NORTH AMERICAN MARKET - Genesis Newsroom (genesisnewsusa.com) GV80 GV80 Coupe

Was hoping to get these written up, but my work has me packed to finish two projects before Xmas, so here is the start of press releases for new products from the LA Auto Show: Hyundai IONIQ 5 N Debuts at AutoMobility LA Setting New Benchmarks for Electrified High Performance - Hyundai Newsroom All-New 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe Revealed at AutoMobility LA with Wider 'Open for More' Liftgate Opening - Hyundai Newsroom Hyundai's IONIQ 6 Named Finalist for North American Car of the Year - Hyundai Newsroom Hyundai and Amazon Partner to Deliver Innovative Customer Experiences and Cloud Transformation - Hyundai Newsroom

I agree it does seem to have gotten worse. I see equally men and woman who come to a light and then sit there and you have to honk your horn to get them going as their phone is more important than their real single focus of driving. Course this has had a pushing affect from the Musk Lies of self-driving autos for the last decade as I hear so many coworkers and people around here who say they wish they could just get in their auto, tell it where to take them and then ignore doing anything till they have to get out. Those kind of people are a real danger to the rest of us on the road. WOW, what a narrow minded story as they ignore all the rest of the portfolio and you truly need to break out the SUVs from the trucks. Merging hides things and is not transparent. Meh to that writeup since it is NOT a complete review of the whole portfolio. So Canyon, Colorado, Maverick, Ranger are not trucks? Now your the one just like the terrible GM Authority story cherry picking the facts. GM does rely on their trucks, just not as much as ford and clearly has larger sales of SUVs & Cars than Ford. At least GM does not rely on old tech, ignore the future and sits running on old tech with serious quality issues like Toyota.

OK, Lets break it down by the numbers. Full Year 2022 2022 (Full Year) USA: GM Sales (Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, GMC) - Car Sales Statistics (best-selling-cars.com) Chevrolet Trucks make up 612,446 SUVs and Cars make up 905,602 GMC Trucks make up 269,341 SUVs make up 217,704 Cadillac Total SUV and Car sales 134,726 Buick Total SUV sales of 103,519 2022 GM Sales Combined Trucks - 881,787 from Colorado, Silverado, Canyon and Sierra SUVs & Cars - 1,361,551 Ford U.S. Ford Motor Company Sales Decreased Two Percent In 2022 (fordauthority.com) Ford Truck sales - 798,871 SUV and Car sales - 982,107 Lincoln SUV sales - 83,486 Combined total sales Trucks - 798,871 SUVs and Cars - 1,065,593 Trucks Sales Ford 798,871 GM 881,787 SUV and Car sales GM - 1,361,551 Ford/Lincoln - 1,065,593 Ford trucks make up 42.85% of total sales GM trucks make up 39.3% of total sales. I will admit that it is not as bad as I thought, as I figured truck sales for Ford was over 50% of their total, but they are still high for both brands. Still relying on a single category for your bulk of sales/profits is never good and I still think Ford has room to improve as does GM. But even then I still do not think that the bulk of Profits is from trucks alone.

Based on their sec filing Ford is heavy dependent on the truck with a far behind second place of SUVs and the mustang where GM is far more diverse on their product line based on sales of their trucks, suvs, the few cars and corvette. To me from a mgmt. standpoint GM is better spread out than Ford. So yes I see it as a concern for Ford.

With many countries calling for the end of ICE sales by 2030, yes this is a concern especially for a company that makes the bulk of the profits on a single product line, F150. Ford has committed to their manufacturing plants EVs in Europe. They announced new models and even showed off an EV Explorer to that market. 10 years from now can make a huge difference and I do not see the current leadership planning that far out. GM has no large investments or manufacturing in Europe, so GM can survive on being a boutique EV sales division for Europe. Big difference in where Ford is at currently. Ford should worry about the future as we are 7 years away from ICE sales ending, China is making large in roads into the market and investing for the long haul even if it does cause them losses in the short term. Most of Europe has already set ICE end dates of 2030 to 2035. As such a company like Ford with Manufacturing plants and commitments to EV production there should be digging in for the long haul and not cutting back if they want to hold off new competition. This whole thing is about the future, planning for it and not worrying about the old people who are afraid of change and technology. When has humanity ever stopped moving forward and changing. Just look at what computers have done from the 1970's to now. Many of the old companies that existed and were thought to be around forever are gone, Digital Computer, Compaq, etc. or in some cases they had to totally change and become something else to survive, Texas Instrument is a perfect example of being forced to change. We already have the death of many auto companies and all I am saying is that change is going to happen whether specific groups of individuals want it or not. Long term, ICE is a dead platform 50 years from now and planning for the long-term survival of a company is not a bad thing.

Yes, they will continue to supply ford but at a possible reduced amount as sales increase again. This to me is a hinderance for growth when the market picks up again versus having constrained availability. I myself still think that with a 2yr time frame to build a new plant, that this will hold Ford back.

Cool that GM is now an F1 Power Unit Manufacture. Cadillac will race on Cadillac motors. GM Registers as a Formula 1 Power Unit Manufacturer (cadillac.com)

Yes, but the whole idea was to have a plant in Europe to supply battery packs to their European assembly operation. I feel this will allow the Chinese who get unlimited backing from the gov to get a strong foothold in Europe and will delay Ford from being competitive after this slowdown is over. I get it that many auto companies are delaying building plants now, but Korea is not delaying or GM for battery plants. It is easy to delay starting to build an EV by a few months like GM has done to get supplies inline to ensure plenty of inventory for the dealers, but delaying or right out killing a battery plant as Ford has done will really delay their ability to compete as it takes about 2 years to get a battery plant online and at this point, even with a 1yr slow down in economy and folks buying new EVs, this plant still would not be online till 2026 which the economy will be robust again I feel and Ford will then be a couple years behind the competition. Ford seems to be not looking long term in the game but only short term and at this point with the UAW members declining the new pay package, Ford should move to more automation and reduce the need for humans on the assembly line. Get ahead and not delay which will cause them to fall behind. I feel Ford has many obstacles now to long term growth and as such, this is just another hindrance rather than a plan for the future. Could Ford be gone by 2030, no I do not think so, but they could have to merge with another stronger auto company to survive. Just my thoughts on this imho.

OUCH, this does not bode well for Ford. Scrapping plants and not looking long term is how your competition will beat you. Ford is behind GM and will killing a battery plant for European sales, this will put them behind everyone else as the Chinese have entered the market and are not slowing down nor is the German companies. LG Energy Solution, Ford Scrap Plans for Joint Battery Plant - The Chosun Ilbo (English Edition): Daily News from Korea - Business > Business

While from March 2023, I have to say I agree with the writer on why my next auto will be an EV. 4 Reasons to Buy an Electric Car That Have Nothing to Do With Going Green (businessinsider.com)

@oldshurst442 You making fun of my Personal Jesus? Then there is only one answer to that! Just Kidding Love is love!!! DM History!!!

I am such a Depeche Head, Loved them since my first concert with them in Japan. Depeche Mode Music for the Masses Tour 1987 to 1988, Japan Leg. This is memory lane of an amazing time in my life. Depeche Mode "Music For The Masses Tour" 1987-1988 (depmode.com)

Are those the pictures he sent ya? WOW that is very sharp indeed.

Congratulations, becoming a parent is an amazing journey and I wish you and your wife all the best for what a rewarding and challenging journey of parenthood will be. Names while many will say go common and US based can still be a beautiful thing to also think of places or trips you and your wife did. I remember a friend who played trumpet with me in jazz band and until now have not thought of her as we drifted apart once our careers took off and we got married, but I will never forget her as her parents named her after a garden they always went to and where he proposed to his wife, the garden was a Rose Garden here in the UW botanical garden. As such Rose grew up to be a great trumpet player and eventually went to college and works in the medical field. Names can mean many things, so do not feel you have to stay mainstream if it is an important meaning to you and your wife.

It is interesting to see how names from TV shows are popular in naming babies. I wonder how AI will deal with pronunciation of strange forward looking names as you posted. ? How does one say Ae37-XD or Gzhn??????? Can you imagine the bullying they will get?

Becoming a grandparent in March 2024, it has been interesting listening to my son and daughter in-law talk about names for the coming grandson. Names are interesting and parents need to take into consideration the name but also pronunciation. My wife being Korean, English as a second language has a really hard time with R's, L's due to the lack of use in her native language. So as it has come up, some names are harder for my wife to say than others. Typing this I draw a blank on the half a dozen names they told us they are considering, but they did rule out strange names such as how some famous folks have called their kid Apple. Doing a bing search on top 2023 baby names, the Bing search engine returned the following: According to Parade, some of the most unusual baby names for 2023 include: Aero Alaska Ari Ashlynn Aspen Astrid Azure Bear Beckett Birdie Bode Brynlee Cadence Cami Case Caspian Charlize Cheyenne Cora Crew Cyrus Dagon Dahlia Damon Daphne Darra Daxton Dawson You can find more unusual baby names for boys and girls in Parade’s article 1. Another source, The Mummy Bubble, reports that some of the new arrivals to the top 100 most popular baby names include Blake, Brody, Kai, Rupert, Tobias, and Nathan 2. Mumsnet has also compiled a list of 200 unusual and unique baby names for both boys and girls 3. Finally, Fatherly has predicted that the following 20 unusual baby names could dominate 2023: Luxury Aurelia Maeve Eloise Alice Aurora Isla Luna Ophelia Iris Aria Nova Eden Freya Luna Arlo Atticus Theodore Jasper Levi You can read more about these predictions in Fatherly’s article 4.

Interesting is all the auto companies that have stated they would also go NACS but are not on the list like Genesis, Lexus, Infinity and Acura. I am thinking that since they are divisions, they went with the core company as Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac are not listed since they are all under GM. The reason I bring this up is because consumers are not as aware of who owns what brands. Would be nice if Reuters had listed parent company and brands underneath that parent company label.

Latest news on NACS More automakers plug into Tesla's EV charging network | Reuters

Happy Birthday Drew!!!

Actually if you follow the threads in their recall, Toyota has reduced the size of the original 12V battery and now their battery cradel does not hold it in place. If you use 3rd party 12V batteries, most are still traditional size from your auto parts store, but looking at a new RAV4 the battery is much smaller than it used to which is my understanding. Leaves are just now changing here in Seattle and dropping. City does not suck them up, you have to bag them and put them out for pickup.

OUCH, this sucks for Toyota and all these RAV4's Almost 2 million recalled. Toyota Recalls Certain 2013-2018 Toyota RAV4 Models - Toyota USA Newsroom

WOW, I figure that was state set emission tests, etc. even here in Washington state, emission testing is gone, but every county or city does have their own taxes, but that just comes on the registration renewal so I find it very weird that your license plate would state what county you live in. Responding to you made me wonder and I did a search and while there is plenty of responses on various social media platforms, I did find Wikipedia to make the most sense. United States license plate designs and serial formats - Wikipedia To me, it would seem to be out of date and just laziness of politicians to not update and modernize and they are stuck in the past for those states that have stuck with 2 digit codes and county names on the plates. I do see that a few states have stopped it to streamline and reduce cost of plate manufacturing. Interesting.

Wonder why, is there a reason behind telling folks which county you are living in?