G. David Felt

No need to worry in the PNW, we are all a little weird and different. This is a very common style up here. There is no right or wrong, wear what is comfortable and you like.

? Is this what they call Mini Donked? ?

The first reviews of the Polestar 2 are out and while the reviewer says it clearly is aimed at Tesla, it still falls short. To me it is far nicer looking on the outside than a Tesla, the interior to me is better than the Tesla for a base version. Interior is true Scandinavian sparse, but nice. In black, I would have to say that many will just say it is another average car as it truly fits in and does not say EV till ya drive away in a very quiet car. You can read the guys full review at the link at the bottom. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1129250_first-drive-review-polestar-2-aims-at-tesla-and-comes-up-just-short

New Bonneville speed record set by an EV. 218.2 MPH https://jalopnik.com/the-ev-west-electraliner-won-a-bonneville-electric-spee-1844719544

@ocnblu You will like this, a story on how after 250,000 miles the Diesel Minivan sold in Europe still rocks. $600, 250,000 mile, diesel, manual, Chrysler Voyager minivan https://jalopnik.com/a03318c5-a506-45b6-850f-b7039234dffe https://jalopnik.com/the-quirks-that-make-my-european-250-000-mile-diesel-ma-1844719494

Polestar the EV division of Volvo paid for this study and clearly state the testing methodology. Tesla 3 came in last according to this study. Funny read as it is so lop sided even with Audi being the best, most efficient depending on how one reads the data. https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-3-ranked-last-for-highway-range-efficiency-1844728090

The Drive posted a filing for trademark by GM on Hummer. Seems we might not have Hummer by GMC as everyone thought. The end result could just be Hummer H EV. Interesting times we live in for sure. https://www.thedrive.com/tech/35657/this-gm-trademark-might-preview-the-new-hummer-h-ev-logo

Wow, Forgot his balls never dropped.

Choice that is what you have and I have one Requirement that you probably never have to deal with as the US average woman height is 5'6" and average man is 5'8" currently. As everyone knows, I am 6'6", my oldest sister is 6'2" average height across both sides of the family is 6'. As such setting the front drivers seat for my comfort and then getting out and getting in behind set drivers seat. If I cannot fit, then pretty much the whole family will not. As such, all auto's have to pass the seat test and here the Asian auto's FAIL. You can say cut the Bullshit, but the fact is most people are lazy about taking care of their auto's. I will not waste my time as most people that are big into the auto scene know that most auto buyers ignore cracking their owner manual or even looking at the owners maintenance schedule. Asian auto's did move to 100,000 mile tune ups way before America did and so pretty much, oil change, tires, brakes was it compared to American auto's that required much more to be done. Like I said nothing is perfect, but I have never scene people have bad experiences when they take care of a product to OEM requirements. That is where most humans fail at. Agree to disagree, but that is the difference I see every time I hear about people bitching about one brand or another.

Is the drivers seat as cramped as it looks in the pictures? How good is the interface to the manual controls? Does it have voice control?

I find all those exotics to be Gaudy and nothing I would ever be inspired to want. That is why I was laughing as they are all a bit different, but still the same to me. Not sure what it is about having tight cramped fast cars. I see no reason you cannot do this with a comfy larger auto even if it was sitting low, just do not see anything inspirational about these to me. The only cool factor to me on the Hyperion XP-1 is the power train. Maybe the car if it was 4 times bigger with comfy space.

Will agree to disagree as Toyota and Honda have a Perception of better reliability but far from it on appliance auto's. Have seen plenty of crap from those companies and I will agree with the term Sheep seem to be lazy in taking care of their auto's. Sheep need to drive EV's as they DO NOT want to deal with maintenance and taking car of their appliance auto's. American auto's have not been perfect and have built some crap models, yet even the crap models can go long distance when owners follow the maintenance schedule. THIS is where the Sheep fail as their own laziness about oil changes, lubing points, brakes, etc. ended up giving them a broken down auto. If you look at the Asian auto's who went in the 80's to 100,000 mile tune ups and 7,500 mile oil changes compared to American auto companies who stuck with 30K tune ups and 3K oil changes and the sheep choose to NOT do the required maintenance, yes those autos failed. Yes American Auto companies Executives screwed the public for profits, but then you find this in every company even Asian or German. End result is YOU and YOU alone the OWNER of the auto are responsible for reading the owners guide, following the defined maintenance schedule and paying for those things. This is the BITCH I have had all along on people who BITCH about American auto's and talk about their appliance Asian auto going 100,000 miles and have never cracked the owners guide. Asian Auto's build for a sheep society. As one who went to College and graduated from Kobe University, Kobe Japan, I can attest first hand to this Sheep mentality. This build it to have less maintenance took the American auto industry almost 20 years to get caught up to the Asian auto's. You have a choice in this world, be a sheep and follow the crowd or take care of your stuff, look at what is required to take care of it and blaze your own path. Choice is all YOURS!

? When have I criticized people like that? To each their own. I know my 90's experience is different than others and I never dealt with those car issues you and others have stated as I was driving a GMC Suburban I still own from that era. So I never have had those issues, but I understand some have. We each only have our own experiences to fall back on and till PSA shows differently, rental experience in Europe, coworkers experience in Europe and my own interaction with PSA garbage from the 70's is what it is for now.

Now back to our normal Bickering over the Awesome world of EV's. Liking this story on Lucid and how they WILL NOT do contract manufacturing, are planning for a CUV and possibly a pickup truck. Quote: “I can confirm that we’re doing an SUV off the Air platform,” said Rawlinson, confirming that the company has a driving prototype of the future vehicle. “And I’m going to put that into production in early ‘23.” The CEO has confirmed they have their pilot production line up and running only 8 months after breaking ground on the site. Lucid test fleet https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1129235_lucid-ceo-confirms-suv-considers-pickup-says-absolutely-not-to-contract-manufacturing

As ya know, I am a big person, lucky for me in the past before Dell bought EMC, I did travel and was able to rent. Not impressed, coworkers in Europe have not been impressed either. Much how people bash American Auto companies cars here for not being up to Asian or European cars, in europe PSA does not have the best rep outside of France by people and the auto's tend to come across when you see them in trashed condition. Honestly if it was not for the past gov support to PSA I honestly doubt it would still be around. Socialism not showing it's best here in regards to PSA. This is in addition to my own experience with them when they were here in the states and yes that was a Long LOng LONG time ago. But then like an Elephant, I do not forget the poor experiences that I wish to NOT repeat.

Some times ya have to remove the dead body!

The only auto's I have seen pictures of and heard about have all been 6 or 4 bangers, so just wondering if an American V8 had ever been in your stable of rides. Thank you for sharing.

idleness

See those daily in my neck of the woods here in Mountlake Terrace as they take off and then turn right headed west to Japan.

Cue

^ @ocnblu ? Have you ever owned anything other than 6 and 4 banger auto's? ?

GARBAGE Crossovers, have not heard much positive about them, their rare time in North America was not good either.

But the Hyperion XP-1 is a Hydrogen fueled Hyper Super Car. So it fits right in with this Alternative Fuels Random thread.

Totally agree, Today's Hyper Super Cars should be unique rather than just another Shooting speed bullet car. Why not make a Supercar that stands out like these do:

Your right that in specific east coast and mid west areas they are not, but I do know many on the west coast are holding off awaiting the many various EVs that have been announced as these are the ones like myself that have no interest in Tesla. As such, I will keep doing everything to keep my ICE auto's going till I can replace them. Just filled up with gas today as I had to run to Costco for my wives prescription and noticed I will turn over some time this month 170,000 in my 2008 Trailblazer SS AWD. Still looks good, but wow, did the time fly.