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Toyota built it's 30 millionth auto on their on their Princeton, Indiana assembly line. The honor of this auto was the all new 2021 Toyota Sienna Hybrid Minivan. Very cool video to watch of the assembly at the press release below. Who knew they had a multi-lug torque wrench that quickly puts all nuts on at once to the right torque. Very cool to see the assembly line in action. 30 Million and Counting! - Toyota USA Newsroom Kenworth Truck makes history at Pikes Peak with help from Toyota in the form of a Fuel Cell Class 8 Semi truck that is wicked fast! The video below shows this truck demolishing the 150 turns and elevation run to 14,115 foot summit. This is one bad ass T680 Class 8 Semi! Kenworth Truck Makes History at Pikes Peak With Help From Toyota - Toyota USA Newsroom

Exciting news on the EV front. Effenco is offering their Heavy Duty EV Powertrain at the same price as the Diesel version. The truck technology is used in over 400 different trucks in 10 countries and has over 3 million miles driven now. Their Supercapacitor battery system allows a much faster recharge time over traditional Li-Ion battery packs and will allow companies especially in the shipping container yards to change over to EV faster since the cost is the same with better performance from higher torque and power. Charged EVs | Effenco offers its heavy-duty EV powertrain at the same purchase price as diesel alternatives - Charged EVs TOYOTA has announced today that they will introduce two electric auto's and a new plug-in Hybrid in 2021 to their portfolio. Electrification began 25 years ago with the Prius and continues today with their newest BEV and PHEV auto's to come to market in 2021. Per the press release, Toyota has announced that 40% of the New U.S. auto sales will be in the form of Hybrids, Plug-in Hybrids and EVs with a 70% sales rate by 2030. Toyota has their new e-TNGA EV platform that is also being shared with Subaru and will be what Subaru builds their EVs on that will come out in the near future too. This third Plug-in hybrid will join the highly successful Prius Prime and RAV4 Prime. Toyota to Debut Three New Electrified Vehicles for U.S. Market - Toyota USA Newsroom Toyota confirms US arrival for two electric vehicle models in 2021 (greencarreports.com)

Some of you might cry over what the UK police did to this auto due to no insurance and a flimsy excuse that it was not road worthy. Ferrari 458 Spider Crushed By Police (msn.com) Another tragedy of a barn find, Shelby GT500 cubed for art. Barn Find Hunter Locates A Cubed Shelby GT500 (motorious.com)

Your bringing back the year and half I lived out of a hotel in Princeton for a job and your right, the drivers there are scary stuff!

@ccap41 Thank you for posting, great looking little dogs.

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Agree that he makes some very valid points. Investments in our basic infrastructure has to happen and a change in mind set about how we manage our power grid no different than water, land, etc. We honestly need to reduce spending money on our military in terms of buying more ships, tanks, guns when we have such a surplus already and invest those dollars in modern clean water delivery, redundant electrical with computer software managed monitoring, etc. So many things we need to do more than out spend the world on ships that go into mothball or tanks or surplus military guns sold to local police. The point is NOT POLITICAL, Just basic needs of society where our tax dollars can be better spent. This investment will then support the needed change over to better means of transportation.

@Robert Hall Thank you for sharing Robert, Awesome family!!!

I see that Chevrolet will have a Pace auto Trilogy for the Feb 14th Daytona 500 as they show off 1,370 HP of V8 power. Corvette LT2 Camaro SS Silverado RTS More details here: Chevrolet Will Set the Pace at Daytona with 1370 Total Horsepower (gm.com) gm is also doing some really cool stuff with moving to 3D printed parts. Additive-Industrialization-Center---facility-footage-and-3D-printed-parts.mp4

This would be a cool Professional Grade option for the GMC trucks with that cool new tail gate that is on everything.

I honestly have only met one member here and it was our Awesome leader Drew via Zoom! Looking forward to meeting more via a zoom meeting in the future and eventually on a road trip! We need some new emoji's

At least your all set for retirement when you will have even more time to build models!

Common Peeps, I know others here have Furby friends / kids. @Robert Hall I know your kids can get posted here please.

Feb 14th @ 4pm ET is a strange date and time to release the Bolt EUV Reveal. Chevrolet EV | Sign Up to See What Happens Next

Love this review, HID conversions / bulbs on who is the best. Buyers Guide: Top 9 Best HID Headlight Bulbs for Your Car's Next Upgrade - The Truth About Cars

Peter Brock the 19 year old designer at GM who was involved in the original C2 Corvette and Ian Callum an alum from Jaguar and Aston Martin are re-imaging a 21st century version with 1,200+ horsepower EV Corvette. Sold from 1963 to 1967, this effort is being done at the AVA Studio in Ireland. The AVA Stingray is a mega-horsepower EV based on the C2 Chevy Corvette | Autoblog The AVA Stingray.

Amazon has teamed up with Mitsubishi to unveil the 2022 Outlander. Watch the teaser here: The World Premiere of the All-New 2022 Mitsubishi Outlander (amazon.com) Mitsubishi to unveil 2022 Outlander SUV on Amazon Live | Autoblog Carb and the US Justice department has decided to not move forward with Ford over their economy and emissions for 2019 / 2020 trucks and suvs. Yet the EPA and Canada are still investigating and a class action lawsuit is moving forward for deception in the proper economy of the Turbo motors. Investigations into Ford fuel economy and emissions processes have ended | Autoblog

VW was caught with transporting for testing one of the first ID.Buzz EV Vans. Seems while we do not have the concept sheet metal, that might still come, but this is testing the EV platform in a van form. Volkswagen ID. Buzz appears in spy photos as a shortened Transporter | Autoblog

Seems after the 6 million truck / suv recall last year for Takata airbags, gm is now adding an additional 2.6 million auto's to the recall. GM Takata airbag recall kicks off with 2.6 million trucks and SUVs - Roadshow (cnet.com)

It was YEARS ago that Tesla CEO Musk promised an affordable EV. That has never really come to happen, yet now we have the following interview with the President of China Tesla who says a $25,000 Tesla EV will happen and be a global auto. Per the interview above, he clearly states the car will be first and foremost built for the China Market first and then extra capacity to build and export around the world. According to the President he is very vague at what shape this EV would take, but Musk's own ramblings would imply a hatchback of some kind. Musk has said that the company is a few years away from having the battery technology to have such cheap EVs, but this is the start of R&D for such a car. Interesting is the story below states that Tesla has killed their own public relations department and as such, no way to confirm what the president says above in an official statement from Tesla. Musk's promised $25,000 Tesla EV will be sold globally, China exec confirms - Roadshow (cnet.com)

The wraper has come off the latest EV car to be released. Audi E-Tron GT. 590 HP, 637 HP in over boost mode. 612 lb-ft of torque 0-60 mph of 3.1 seconds Top speed of 155 mph .24 coefficient of drag 238 mile battery range 2022 Audi E-Tron GT electric car: Up to 238-mile range for quickest quattro yet (greencarreports.com) Audi unveils 2022 e-tron GT – combining luxury and electric performance (electrek.co) I will say it is better looking than the Porsche I think, In 2019 Mercedes-Benzes had a global market share of 2% plug-in PHEV/BEV auto's. In 2020 they had a 229% increase in sales increasing their plug-in sales to 7.4% of total global sales. Mercedes expects global sales to increase to 13% of total auto sales for Plug-in PHEV/BEV. Charged EVs | Mercedes-Benz triples global plug-in sales, meets 2020 European emissions targets - Charged EVs

Will start this off, my sister and her partner got a pure bred golden. Will raise it and train it as a therapy dog. Everyone Meet Cora! Cora was luving on her sister. Cora's first ice cube. 44621.3gp Cora with her brothers and sisters. 41693.3gp

My permanent work from home setup now that I will never return to the office.

Congratulations Robert on the new Gig, wishing you all the best. In Auto News, seems OLD is NEW again at Jaguar. The Jaguar Type C race car is going to be built again pure to the original in a limited run (yes no number stated so how limited is probably by how many are sold). This is the 1953 disc brake specification version Jag with a 3.4 Liter Straight 6 and triple weber carbs for 220 bhp can be yours. Jaguar Classic C-Type Continuation | Jaguar Classic

? Thinking on this, I wonder if more auto companies will consider killing off certain models earlier due to the chip shortage that is NOT expected to change till some time in late 2023? ? OUCH, Ford is now having to cut production of the F150 Trucks due to the chip shortage and the fact that unlike GM which uses a universal chip set across all cars, trucks and SUVs. The F150 uses a different chip set compared to the SUV/CUVs and the cars, aka Mustang. Quote: Ford Motor this week was forced to cut production of its highly profitable F-150 pickup trucks due to the chip shortage. The company said it was not able to prioritize production of the pickups because they use unique chips compared with other models. Ford F-150 production cut due to semiconductor chip shortage (cnbc.com)