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G. David Felt

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  1. It is interesting to see how the picture angle can change the look. Head on, your right ugly, but from an angle much better as I posted current year versus new year models. I like the new better than the old without all that awful black plastic.
  2. Very cool to see a design that does not just show it to be a badge copy of Toyota. Be interesting to see what folks think of this new style of Nose. 2025 first and the newly anounced 2026 model. At least with the charge port on the front Passenger fender now rather than the Drivers side, it will make it easy to pull into a Tesla Charging spot and reach with their shorter charge cables.
  3. Yes, Globally their family of Brands has seen double digit fall due to poor quality, old tech, etc. Will be interesting to see what brands they cut from the U.S. as I can see them closing the Chrysler lineup as well as Masarati and Alfa Romeo. Now that we have 245% tariff on all things Chinese, that is going to hurt the auto industry even more. https://www.newsweek.com/china-245-trump-tariff-2060295
  4. Excited to have this in the market as an alternative to the Tesla 3. Not a fan of the coupe sedan look. One area that I feel is a let down is the 400V system used on this rather than the original 800V system that is found in the higher level trims. Kia should had led with having this a fast 18 min 800V charge to 80% imho. Interior I am happy with, spacious.
  5. Very Cool, Seems Kia has released a teaser of their press release for tomorrow. 10am EST or 7am PST will be an exciting time. Kia Global Media Center : Kia America Returns to the New York International Auto Show
  6. Today's news covers that #47 has signed off on the GOP plan to push his 2017 Billionaire tax cuts through by bringing back the 40% tax bracket on Singled making over $650,000 or couples making over $750,000 taxing the millionaires to give the Billionaires a continued tax break. The reason for bringing this up is that a large number of Millionaires are owners of dealerships and already some are saying they could see closing dealerships, example Chrysler dealerships. On top of this is a number of recent videos talking about used autos not selling at auction and dealerships seeing a big decline in used auto sales. Much of this brought on by very crazy low lease rates on EVs, hybrids with ICE being the most expensive. Now you have Tariffs, and the auto industry is a total mess. As such, I agree with folks here that we will see some name brands close, this tariff war is going to force companies to look and cut brands that are not profitable.
  7. Agree that this whole Tariff mess will take out those that are already on deaths door. This I suspect could clean out a few of the early name plates. Sad that so many billions was wasted by an idiot CEO trying to rebuild a dead industry in Italy with trying to bring back poorly built name plates. Alfa Romeo, Maserati should have never been invested in. But that can now be said for more American name plates too. Time to let Chrysler die with dignity. In my humble opinion Buick other than China should just be put into the history books. GM = Entry level Chevrolet - Mid level GMC and luxury Cadillac. We still have an overabundance on name plates globally.
  8. Seems first sneek preview is here: Slate's $25,000 Electric Truck Will Be A 'Disruptor' Preview of a portion of the truck to Newsweek. Spotted: The Jeff Bezos $25,000 Pickup From Slate Auto
  9. R.I.P. to the affordable sports car, but also to young people being able to afford an auto period! 😒 Tariffs led to the Great depression, now another less than intelligent person is destroying this country. Amazing how after 6 bankruptcies, people still felt #47 was a good choice to lead this great democracy. America is a Great Country, never fell down except in the dementia minds of the boomers who want to live in the 50's/60's again.
  10. I disagree with the whole coupe thing. Coupe SUVs will not drive sales, right now they are dying on the vine and I am surprised even Genesis brought out a coupe and it is not selling. I back up that Coupes sell very little in that no one breaks out there sales, not even Genesis. https://carfigures.com/us-market-brand/genesis/gv80
  11. This is so true, there is no way we will ever go back to the 1980's or early 1990's of assembly line jobs. Even if part makers and complete auto assembly lines come into the U.S. they will be heavily roboticized and as such, you will need educated repair people for the robots, but the days of so much human manual work is over. Trump says free trade killed American auto jobs. That’s not the whole story
  12. I was surprised by it also, but Kia has stated that is the number they believe they will be able to sell here.
  13. Nice assortment of physical buttons to touch screen. Nice looking interior that appears to be spacious.
  14. Sharp profile, They are really bringing it compared to everyone else from a Style standpoint. I can see this being a big hit for them this year depending on where it is built, the amount of local versus non-U.S. product content so the Tariffs could hit hard or hardly at all.
  15. Excited to see all the Korean options. I wonder if they could shock everyone with a Reveal of the Kia EV Pickup? Supposedly based on their EV day held in Spain they did say that they will have a midsize EV pickup and are expecting to sell 90,000 a year.
  16. Awesome, those are usually great deals. Enjoy the cruise. Where in Europe will it end? Do you have a port list?
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