G. David Felt

Seems VW woes in selling auto's continue and could mare their ICE product line big time. Seems the all new Mk8 with over the air software updates is so buggy that auto shipments for sale have been suspended and this seems to be a trend among all their new models with auto shipments being suspended till software is fixed. https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2020/05/mk8-golf-deliveries-suspended-over-software-gremlins/ Diesel gate haunts VW, now it would seem that neither EV or ICE is able to escape the Gremlins of rushed software. Welcome to the computer age VW. For the Ford Fans, seems a Russian moder has created the ultimate E-Series Van. Ford Raptor Van 6x6 https://www.thedrive.com/news/33515/russian-built-ford-raptor-bus-is-the-ultimate-e-series-van

Seems Pandemic is delaying everything. Ford has stated that the start of production for the 2021 Bronco and Mach-e has been delayed by 2 months. They now join the delay of the new F-150 and Bronco Sport which are also delayed. https://www.autoblog.com/2020/05/18/ford-bronco-mach-e-production-delayed-coronavirus/ Shame Dyson could not figure out how to produce their electric auto. Now in an interview with Sir Dyson, they finally show off the 700 mile range Solid State battery powered 7 seater CUV. https://www.autoblog.com/2020/05/17/dyson-electric-car-revealed/ Battery tech will go into Dyson products and be sold to other auto companies. Dyson say's that to break even in the first few years, the auto would have to sell for at least $150,000 per auto. I suspect that Dyson also realized the huge investment it will take to start up an auto company as to be the real reason for killing off their project.

Tesla has narrowed the scope of where their new TeraFactory will be built. Seems the two choices are Austin Texas or Tulsa Oklahoma. Either way Musk has told his team to prepare for building the plant and start production of the Model Y CUV by the end of the year. Normally many in the auto industry say this is impossible but after breaking ground and starting production of Tesla 3 at the Chinese plant, one has to wonder if Tesla could pull this off in 6 months. My gut says no. Even building this in a Red state of business friendly, I just do not see such a massive factory / building getting built and starting production of a specific auto in 6 months. https://chargedevs.com/newswire/tesla-says-its-new-terafactory-will-be-producing-model-y-by-the-end-of-this-year/ Tesla full production S sedan with new Cheetah mode makes new world record in 1/4 mile run at the track. https://electrek.co/2020/05/18/tesla-model-s-performance-achieves-new-record-quarter-mile-cheetah-stance/

AC/DC

As we get older, us guys do like a rear on a woman!

Maybe you need to sleep and look at that Big Mouth Billy Bass mouth MiniVan in the morning. ?

Butter

Interesting latest list of Auto's expected to last 200,000 miles with just basic maintenance. https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/research/these-cars-are-the-most-likely-to-surpass-200000-miles/ss-BB13Ud6n?li=BBnb7Kz#image=1 Toyota Tacoma Lincoln Navigator Toyota Avalon Honda Odyssey Toyota Tundra Honda Ridgeline GMC Yukon Toyota 4Runner GMC Yukon XL Chevrolet Tahoe Toyota Highlander Hybrid Chevrolet Suburban Ford Expedition Toyota Sequoia Toyota Land Cruiser Honda Pilot Cadillac Escalade Cadillac Escalade ESV Acura MDX Toyota Highlander Honda Civic Toyota Sienna Toyota Prius Honda Accord Mercedes-Benz E-class Chevrolet Impala Toyota Camry Toyota Camry Hybrid Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Ford F-150 Most Reliable Brands in the Auto Industry. Toyota Honda GMC Chevrolet Ford This makes you wonder, where are the Europeans for Reliability and quality? ? The rare Mercedes E-Class is on the list due to it being a highly used service auto, taxi / fleet service. Guess that clarifies that the E-Class is not a Luxury car. THANK YOU, Sorry, never was one to get humor. Late night TV I find very insulting as none of it to me is funny. I get the point now of what your are making fun of.

galaxy

Knights Templer

Rural

WRONG, Airbus just now has an efficient plant that beats the 777. BOEING has Built a far more efficient plane, the Dream Liner 787 that Airbus has NOTHING to compete with. Airbus FAILED as they tried to beat the 747 and while building an 800 plus people carrying cesspool of germs in a plane a380 that is so INEFFICIENT that most plane companies are writing them off. Production is over, where the 747 is still in production. So YOU ARE WRONG WRONG WRONG Back to cars

Cherokee Classic still looking good after all these years.

Bourne

Till we have a vaccine and we understand the weird death that is now hitting kids caused by Covid-19, my travel will be by my own auto with social distance between me and everyone else. No Virus bugs for me.

Life Cereal

Beechers Mac n Cheese

Interesting Morning News: GM has a CDC approved cleaning program for all dealers to follow and market to insure safety when going to a dealership on how to clean an auto, what to use that will not harm leather, plastic rubber, etc. but sterilize the touch points in an auto. Good Move GM. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/general-motors-chevy-buick-gmc-cadillac-dealer-disinfect-clean/ Masarati MC20 sports car shows off with a stirling Moss wrap. Not really sure why people like these. I get it if you are advertising a company to wrap an auto, but otherwise let the beauty of the auto show and not cover it with ugly wraps. Am I alone or do others here find wraps ugly unless it is for Marketing a company like on vans or trucks? https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/maserati-mc20-sports-car-stirling-moss/ 2021 FORD F-150 Delayed, possibly a short model year run. Due to Covid-19, Ford has pushed back when they will open up the order books from May 11th to July 15th but further delays could happen they say as production start moves from September 28th to November 9th. Ford has declined to comment further but seems the F-150 Hybrid paired with the 3.5L V6 and the F-150 EV are still on track to debut with the Ford Bronco and Bronco Sport. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/2021-ford-f-150-delays-production-coronavirus/

Seems Lucid has parked their testing fleet of 40 auto's till California lets them get back to work on the road, but the engineers are working from home to spit and polish the final details on the auto's as the Lucid Arizona assembly plant starts back up to continue work on installation of manufacturing equipment. Lucid says they are still on target for delivery mid 2021 to the first customers of the Lucid Air Sedan. I have to say to each their own but this Tesla Modded car is BUTT UGLY to me.

Need a New Used Car? According to this story, Prices for used auto's dropped 34 plus percent in April. On top of this, Hertz is in deep trouble as it is mostly owned by two banks and as such the banks over the next two weeks will decide to either liquidate and close Hertz or attempt to sell off at least half of the auto's they have to pay bills and try and survive. https://jalopnik.com/a-hertz-bankruptcy-could-sink-an-already-struggling-use-1843414354 Per the story, Hertz is currently on the hook for the leases on 567,000 vehicles, with another 200,000 internationally, spread out across its 12,400 locations. Read at the link above to see their options, but it is NOT pretty and I would not be surprised to see the banks liquidate their options to save what cash they can. Benefit will be the public that can afford an auto if the auto's they have for sale are desirable. Next is the Aston Martin story where the Canadian Billionare came to the rescue of his beloved brand and took it over and then sales tanked in the last quarter of the year and start of this year were considerably lower with lower prices and then Covid-19 hit. Now the question is what will this guy do next? Cut bait and run? Nope they say they have a plan to survive and come out in better shape. Interesting is that the new billionaire owner wants to be more like Ferrari where you only build what customers buy and not have hundreds to thousands of auto's sitting on a dealer lot. https://jalopnik.com/aston-martin-is-in-bad-shape-but-it-says-it-has-a-plan-1843443664 Time will tell if this strategy works for them as they move to being an EV auto company.

Calcium

To each their own of what they like. It is way better interior than a Tesla. I like it and am excited by the EV. But then you knew that!

EV's just like ICE are starting out as a luxury item for the wealthier of society, but prices are dropping, feature functions are there for those that want connectivity and reduction in maintenance for personal transportation. While Gas has dropped in price, ICE Auto's have gone up in price. I do not see that the cheap gas is making the ICE auto that big of a value over EVs. A $10K basic difference between them as I showed in the comparison is not that big of a difference and I expect it to drop big time when other EVs come out over the next 18 months. With Millions out of work, I do not see ICE sales taking off again either. Both business models just slammed head-on into a bridge abutment.

I prefer a good auto drive over a plane ride. So nope, will pass, keep my comfort, space and health safety for taking a drive over flying. Yes I realize it will take me 4 times or longer to travel the same distance but still would rather drive and see North America.

I will disagree with you and post this very good read on Transportation and the Carriage age. Transportation in America and the Carriage Age.pdf To quote a few we documented facts as discussed in this educational research paper: The carriage era lasted only a little more than 300 years, from the late seventeenth century until the early twentieth century. For much of that time, only the very wealthiest people could afford to own and maintain their own vehicle. In the United States, the real height of the carriage era lasted less than a century, from about 1850 to 1910. Primitive roads held back wheeled travel in this country until well into the nineteenth century, while the advent of the automobile doomed the horse-drawn vehicle as a necessity of life and transportation in the early 1900s. While there were still more than 4,600 carriage companies operating in the United States as late as 1914, by 1925 there were barely 150. By 1929, there were fewer than 90.** **For the source of these statistics and a thorough but readable account of the rise and fall of the American carriage industry, the following book is highly recommended: Kinney, Thomas A. The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. At the turn of the nineteenth century, there were 21 million horses in the U.S. and only about 4,000 automobiles. End result, I expect the EV to do to ICE what ICE did to the Horse. EV is becoming more reliable, has far less maintenance and you can easily power it , recharge it just about anywhere. Yes it takes time and is slow, so was ICE in the early years. Yet look at ICE now. EV has already replaced most ICE as being faster, R&D is proving to build better and better batteries. So in time people will change to EVs just like they did with cell phones for Smartphones.